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Posted on 09/19/2018 9:07:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 1969, it was space travel. Today, the world’s most tech-savvy nations are in a race for 5G – networks that operate 100 times more quickly than today’s cellular networks.
So what’s behind this competition to achieve 5G?
First, buffering and lag will be a thing of the past, reducing the download time of a two-hour movie – which now requires six minutes – to only 3.6 seconds. But the impacts of 5G are more far-reaching than faster download speeds on our mobile devices. 5G allows for the lighting-speed transmission of massive amounts of data, making the potential applications of this technology life-changing.
Imagine the future of health care in a world of seamless connectivity. Doctors can remotely diagnose symptoms in real time – a potentially life-saving development for people who physically can’t get to a doctor’s office. With robotic-assisted laser surgery, doctors can perform complex operations with greater precision on patients on the other side of the world. Medical students can virtually tour the inside of the human body.
5G health care innovations are already making their way into the marketplace, from electronic sensors that monitor your sun exposure to trackers that stick to your clothes and provide up-to-the-minute health assessments.
But this is just the beginning.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearmarkets.com ...
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Right. And Democrats will happily embrace bipartisanship and vote "yes" for President Trump's SCOTUS nominees.
Apps will expand to suck up all of the bandwidth.
For instance, when you walk past a chiropracter’s office, some sensor is going to take a movie, send it to a server, analyze your gait, and then notify your phone that you need a spinal adjustment.
And every type of business/lamp post will be doing that. Walla, the network gets filled and everything slows down.
5G networks will increase the number of connections from about 4500 per antennae, to about 40,000 per antennae. For 5G networks to function at full effect, they require many closely spaced antennas (the speed of light becomes a lag factor), with precise beam-forming to reduce interference. They will need to track every connected device to within a few centimeters, both for azimuth, and to carefully optimize the amount of power applied to the connection.
So clearly this can be used for detailed tracking. Can it be prevented from being used for targeting?
Net Neutrality epic FAIL.
Interestingly that the author can only talk about cities. The effect of 5G will be seen especially in the rural parts of the country where we are dependent on satellite based internet and a weak signal from the nearest cell tower along an interstate highway. No highway, no cell tower. no cell tower, no cell phone. 5G will bring real connectivity to rural areas, but only if there is a major effort to ensure that the infrastructure is upgraded.
Like Windows. Every time memory and processors expand Windows expands to consume the advances.
technology can only do so much...
that pic is not a good one, but I love the way women used to wear red lipstick....
Many years ago a surgeon cousin of mine was doing research about battlefield surgery from remote locations.
The ONLY hold up was the time delay.
Imagine the lives saved on a D-Day scale invasion if you could simply put the wounded into a “pod” and have hundreds of trauma surgeons 5,000 miles away operating on them.
The impact would be significant for civilian cases as well.
And this was twenty years ago. I imagine we are a little closer to this reality now.
How?
The rural electrification agency was supposed to be building out the infrastructure.
I have yet to see Miss Ford take her sunglasses off in her photos.
STOLEN!!!
Excellent. Just excellent.
Operative word, “supposed”. Rural internet and cell phone infrastructure is years behind.
How Kemo Sabe?
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