By 2030, Facebook aims to have 5 billion of the world’s 7 billion humans connected to its social network, a 3.5-billion jump that could be accomplished in part by deploying autonomous planes.<br />CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the comments Monday during an event at the company’s new Frank Gehry-designed headquarters designed to celebrate Facebook’s 12th anniversary Thursday, which it has dubbed Friends Day.<br />Facebook also introduced a new way of measuring its global spread: as users doubled from 2011 to 1.5 billion, the degrees of separation between each user has shrunk from 3.74 to 3.57 degrees today.<br />“We want to finish connecting everyone, we’re going to do it in partnership with governments and different companies all over the world,” Zuckerberg said, pointing to a large wall photo of a boomerang-shaped drone Facebook has developed dubbed Aquila.<br />Zuckerberg has been talking about connecting the rest of the world for a few years now.
