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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @01:06PM (1 child)
You can have reactions to metals and any foreign object, but it's not anywhere near as common and typically, not any of the materials that are cleared for implantation. They will eventually figure it how to get donated organs to work without the drugs to prevent rejection, but the immune system needs to be trained for it if you can't use cells that properly match, be and developing the immune system acceptance takes far more than the few hours b you typically get.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday May 31 2022, @05:21PM
There are people with nickel allergies, but there are other metals, like titanium, that are safe. I machine medical device parts for a living.
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