Ten years ago, the National Academy of Sciences asked the Institute for the Future if we could help them essentially make a list of the weirdest new technologies that might have a big impact on society, especially on our security as a nation, and we took on that project. One of the technologies that we thought would be really interesting to look at and that seemed to be maybe not on as many people's radar as we thought it should be was the CubeSat, which is short for cube satellite. Here is what was true of a cube satellite in 2009, and it's still true more or less today. CubeSat is a miniaturized satellite, you can hold it in your hand. It weighs as little as three pounds or 1.33 kilograms. It is built using commercially available off-the-shelf components. So anybody who has some instructions can build one. You don't need to be in a special laboratory, and anyone can launch this CubeSat that they have built and customize into space, into orbit to have it navigate, and sense data, and send data back to Earth, and that you don't need to be NASA or a space agency to do this, so that you can piggy-back on a government launch or even a commercial space launch to put your satellite into space. Now, what would you do with a CubeSat? Why would you launch your own satellite into space? There are a number of things that you could do with a CubeSat that we're just beginning to percolate as ideas at the time. You might use it for climate monitoring that you could send a satellite up in space to look for information that would tell us how climate change is actually playing out on Earth. You could use it for disaster response, so you could use the cameras to document areas that might need assistance. You could take photos and capture data in space of things that are happening in space that you could use CubeSats to demonstrate and test new technological ideas. For example, the idea that you could use a commercially available mobile phone to navigate satellites in space. You just send a phone up in a CubeSat and see if it works. You could even create artificial stars, and you could program your CubeSat to blink and Morse code to send messages back down to Earth. These are all things you could do with CubeSats. So what we did for this forecasts and for the scenario is we imagined a future in which the price point of Cubesats came down dramatically and enough people became interested in them, that CubeSats became as common as having your own website. If you have a website, it might not have a satellite and express yourself in space and do something interesting in space. So what you're going to see now is our forecast video. It presents two different scenarios and has some questions about what any of us might do with a CubeSat in the future, which is actually today because we made this video 10 years ago, and here it is. What if you had a precision lens above the Earth? What if you could broadcast a message anywhere in the universe? What if you were witnessing history for your eyes? What if you never got lost again? What if you could protect the ones you love? What if you could see the stars at close? What if you could run one experiment in space? Join the first public satellite network, iSat. Your organization needs a space program. You'll keep hearing that but what does it mean? What are the benefits, and what will it cost? Prime Orbit specializes in space solutions for Global Business. From our launch location in Brazil to a geosynchronous orbit that you are choosing, we handle all of the technical details, and what do you get? A secure network of all real units, accessible any time anywhere. For stability and speed of the Interstellar Internet a year of guaranteed functionality. Prime Orbit is not just going on, it orbit.