In my childhood years, I got to experience something I’ve cherished ever since: starry nights.

I was lucky to spend time during the summers on my Aunt Eula’s and Uncle Ernest’s tenant farm in Northeast Texas. With no TV or electronics, we made our own entertainment in the evenings, including “turning on” nature’s Big Show. This meant rolling an old bed outdoors as darkness fell, so we could lie back, look up and marvel at the endless expanse of constellations, comets, the Milky Way, planets and other wonders of the cosmos. Today, though, 80% of Americans never see the starry night, for the artificial glare of city lights blots out nature’s spectacular display.

But wait — billionaires to the rescue! Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and other high-tech demigods who’re spending trillions to foist a brave new world of artificial intelligence on us, claim that their scheme will actually........

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