Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

Re:Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020? by untog on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:40PM (#20811627)

> Imagine what can be done when sensors/cameras can transmit 10x the amount of data per second that they can now.

I've thought about this before and honestly I can't come up with many things. Telemedicine in terms of speaking to a doctor over video is already very possible over the connections we have today. Bringing that to a wider audience (say, third world countries) is an interesting possibility, but it also requires bringing 5G to third world countries, so I don't think that's going to happen too quickly.

Aside from that, what does 5G really bring us? The same stuff, only faster. I mean, good, sure. But it's not that inspiring.

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Re:Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020? by wait-a-minute on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:23PM (#20812202)

https://www.geek.com/tech/worlds-first-5g-powered-remote-bra...

https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-could-make-self-driving-cars-sm...

There's also the possibility of much faster speeds even in areas without 5g, since the competition will make 3g speeds a really bad look.

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