Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying

Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by dwaltrip on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:16PM (#20788731)

That's the point. We don't know all of the future applications. But it's very unlikely to be nothing interesting. Do you think everyday appliances in the 50 years will function essentially the same as today? It's a very general enhancement in capability with lots of potential but currently unknown use cases.

I say this while also recognizing that most IoT stuff today is overhyped BS.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by mcguire on Saturday August 24, 2019 @04:21PM (#20789472)

Yes?

A refrigerator will still keep things cold. A stove will still heat things up. An AC will still AC. Other than home automation systems that go belly up when their servers go offline, most things do the same thing they did 50 years ago.

5g isn't revolutionary.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by jnordwick on Saturday August 24, 2019 @04:57PM (#20789665)

Doing something substantially faster almost always leads to a revolution in it: internet, manufacturing, cars, planes, computers.

At every step, you could always say "it is just faster". Only in retrospect can you ever see how world changing "faster" was.

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