Episode 358 - The 5G Dragnet
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4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 5G will upgrade the human experience at home and across industries as we connect virtually everything. |
| 0:08.0 | By 2020, analysts estimate that there will be more than 20 billion installed IoT devices around the world, |
| 0:16.0 | generating massive amounts of data. |
| 0:19.0 | With access to this kind of information, industries of all kinds will be able to reach new levels of efficiency |
| 0:26.3 | as they add products, services, and capabilities. |
| 0:31.6 | As you may have heard by now, telecom companies are currently scrambling to implement fifth-generation cellular network technology. |
| 0:39.0 | Dubbed 5G, these networks will make use of millimeter-length electromagnetic waves, also dubbed |
| 0:44.9 | extremely high frequency or E.H.F. radiation to transmit information faster than ever before. |
| 0:51.6 | 5G networks promise to deliver data 100 times faster than the existing 4G networks |
| 0:56.7 | and reduce latency as much as 98%. The promise of 5G was promoted by Tom Wheeler, then chair of the Federal Communications Commission, |
| 1:05.3 | when he made a presentation on the U.S. government's vision for the rollout of 5G in America in 2017. |
| 1:11.1 | Yes, 5G will connect the Internet of everything. |
| 1:16.0 | If something can be connected, it will be connected in the 5G world. |
| 1:20.0 | But the predictions, but with the predictions of hundreds of billions of microchips connected in products from pill bottles to plant waters, you can be sure of only one thing. The biggest |
| 1:40.5 | Internet of Things application has yet to be imagined. |
| 1:46.0 | Here's the key. |
| 1:50.0 | The interconnected world that we live in today is the result of decisions made a decade ago. |
| 2:00.0 | The interconnected world of the future will be the result of decisions we must make today. |
| 2:09.6 | And that is why 5G is a national priority. |
| 2:16.7 | But after the initial surge of hype that surrounds any new technology, |
| 2:20.8 | the dark reality of this new 5G connected internet of things is starting to come to light. |
| 2:26.0 | The most immediately apparent aspect of this dark reality is the danger to human health that the 5G networks ubiquitous and powerful transmitters present. |
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