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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: 5, Interesting) by jon3k on Tuesday May 31 2022, @01:18PM (7 children)
Half the country wouldn't even get vaccinated, which was supported by the CDC, because those idiots thought it had a "Bill Gates 5G Microchip" in it. And you think they'll let a private company implant electronics in them?
[X] Doubt.
(Score: 5, Informative) by HiThere on Tuesday May 31 2022, @01:28PM (1 child)
Yes. It just takes the right marketing spin.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 31 2022, @10:08PM
If it is offered for no money down there will always be a significant slice of society that will go for it, no matter how much privacy they lose.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @01:38PM
Another sizable segment of the country flocked to get vaccine into themselves, their babies, their dogs, their cats, and their hamsters, all because The Holy TV Said So!
That same segment is the target customers for the brain implants. After all, you are in no danger of brain damage if born without a brain...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Tuesday May 31 2022, @01:53PM
Of course they will if it gives them "Free* Access" to something shiny, or a social network, or music/movies/TV shows.
*Terms & Conditions apply. After an initial period, administration charges may apply, as well monthly service fees, hire of implanted equipment, billing fees, fees that we feel like adding 'just because', contributions to ex-gratia payments to the C-suite members, their spouses, families and hangers-on, regulatory lobbying fees, lawyers retainers and anything else we can think of.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @03:05PM
you mean i will have to get a booster to upgrade from the 5g we just got implanted with go 6g already?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @08:56PM (1 child)
Suppose that once they are implanted, they suddenly no longer have any objections. They even become supportive of this and will assist in spreading the good news and making sure everyone gets it.
Think ST:TNG episode The Game.
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 01 2022, @05:56AM
Actually I'm more thinking of the device from the Star Gate episode "Revisions". Although that wasn't actually implanted.
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