4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The 5G revolution is here, and boy, has it caused a splash. Conspiracy theories spread through forums like tornadoes, whipping up fear about contamination and health issues. People are toppling cell phone towers, thinking they cause COVID-19. But how valid are these concerns? Kim sits down with radio wave expert Kenneth Foster, a University of Pennsylvania professor with all the facts. After this episode, you’ll be ready for the newest generation of wireless technology.
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0:00.0 | And so based upon that non-secretter, the discussion suddenly changed. |
0:04.9 | Maybe there's a microwave weapon involved without any evidence whatsoever. |
0:09.3 | In most cases, he's won away, but a few employees, even years later, have been seriously affected to the point where they've taken early retirement. |
0:20.0 | You see 5G all over, don't you? It's the new wireless network, of course, that everybody's |
0:24.3 | talking about. It stands for, and I know this, but just in case you don't, it stands for |
0:28.8 | fifth generation wireless technology. It's going to make self-driving cars a reality. |
0:35.1 | It's going to do so many other things. You can download HD movies in just |
0:38.5 | a mere second or so. Everything's going to be smart. Even the tires on our car. I read about this, |
0:43.9 | and I couldn't believe it. Smart tires would actually talk to road sensors who would actually |
0:48.8 | talk to other cars and then they would be involved in, say, predicting traffic patterns. |
0:54.1 | Now, 5G just didn't arrive overnight. |
0:56.5 | Of course, we have to go back in time. |
0:58.4 | 1G. Do you remember that? |
1:00.3 | It hit the scene in 1985. |
1:03.2 | And then we started to go digital, so we switched to 2G. |
1:06.2 | Later on, 3G. |
1:07.8 | We're all super excited about that because then you could finally get email on your phone. |
1:12.5 | And then 4G, Uber Lyfts, streaming videos. And today, 5G is just blasting through. |
1:19.4 | And it's one day going to give us autonomous cities and self-driving drones. And it seems like |
1:24.7 | whenever anything new is in technology, we always have conspiracy |
1:28.1 | videos and theories that float around. And with 5G, there's no scarcity of it. Some folks think |
1:34.9 | that 5G actually causes the coronavirus to spread. And these online beliefs are turning to |
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