An early Iridium presentation included an artistic rendition of a solar powered Iridium-based phone booth in the middle of a jungle -- a dark jungle with a halo

An early Iridium presentation included an artistic rendition of a solar powered Iridium-based phone booth in the middle of a jungle -- a dark jungle with a halo of light above the phone booth. Peasants were walking by on a trail near the phone booth carrying baskets on their heads. Elsewhere in the presentation they mentioned a target price of $3 a minute. The above was in a recruitment presentation for engineering NCGs. I recall a sinking feeling that I would one day leave academia and work on projects with absurd marketing visions. Edit: typos