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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: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @08:28PM (4 children)
In the 1970s I mused about the communicators.
On most planets there was not some type of planetary routing network that could be used by the communicators. (eg, 6G) Yet the communicators could reach the ship at any time. Apparently regardless (or irregardless?) of what part of the orbit the ship was in. On the other side of the planet? Could the Enterprise plant some communication satellites in orbit when it first arrives?
Another amazing feature is that a call could be routed directly to a specific individual. Much like cell service. Even if it was by the user's name rather than some sort of telephone number. Oh, and with voice recognition used to initiate the call. And incoming call notification was in the voice of the person calling you.
So on a planet with no infrastructure, could the communicators form some sort of ad-hoc mesh network? (I wouldn't have known that terminology in my teen years, but that was the basic idea I had in mind.) So communicators might participate in the network even when a crewman is not using their communicator. Actively routing calls or information.
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday May 31 2022, @08:53PM (3 children)
Perhaps the teleporter just beams the bits down? Who knows ...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @09:14PM (2 children)
Or "subspace radio" fits into communicators. But only for short range. Because the ship can be out of range in some episodes. Putting Kirk in a situation where there is nothing he can do except this episode's space bimbo.
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @11:54PM (1 child)
the so-called "neutrinos" seem to go thru everything and be directional?
shoting 'em thru the core would be 6'xxx km. i think not even leo sats can beat that (unless the little ones are kindda slow).
if only they would stop putting everythin' in the bottom shelf labled "for later use"...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 01 2022, @06:12AM
Well, if you invent a neutrino detector that's small enough, sensitive enough and cheap enough to be used as communication device, you'll get a Nobel prize for sure.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.