SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Nokia CEO says 6G will be here by 2030 — but you might not access it via your smartphone
Headquartered in Finland, Nokia builds telecoms networks that enable phones and other internet-enabled devices to communicate with one another.
Asked when he thinks the world will move away from using smartphones to using smart glasses and other devices that are worn on the face, [Nokia CEO] Lundmark said it will happen before 6G arrives.
[...] "By then, definitely the smartphone as we know it today will not anymore be the most common interface," he said. "Many of these things will be built directly into our bodies."
He did not specify exactly what he was referring to but some companies, such as Elon Musk's Neuralink, are working on producing electronic devices that can be implanted into the brain and used for communication with machines and other people. On a more basic level, chips can be implanted into people's fingers and used to unlock things.
6G may be here in the next 8 years or so, but I believe the suggestion of implanted devices being commonplace is a totally unrealistic statement. We have not yet reached the stage where 'implanting things into the brain' has become a simple and low risk proposition. But even if we had, who is going to be performing these operations and at what rate? Who would pay for such medical treatment?
However, let us put these problems aside for a moment. What do you see as the future of personal communications? Let's discuss some realistic or even 'off-the'wall' ideas. What effect would such devices have on our privacy and freedoms? In Star Trek the communicator device, which appeared on our (television) screens around the mid 1960s, does not look too different from some of today's smartphones although at that time it was pure science fiction.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Opportunist on Tuesday May 31 2022, @11:52AM (2 children)
Or other part of my body. It's already bad enough to have this fucking tracking devices in my pants, the idea of not even being able to get rid of them when I'm in bed with someone is certainly not appealing.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @03:01PM
the device in your pocket is not the one to be worried about Senator.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @08:51PM
Once you have the device, you will gladly conform to the will of the people, for the good of the people. You will no longer care about what may or may not be in your pants, and care even less about being in bed with someone. You will support global adoption of the massively popular devices.
What's not to like?
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?