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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: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday May 31 2022, @08:45PM (2 children)
It's not so bad. Really. No need to be so concerned. It will not be necessary to implant this technology into your body.
It can easily take a form of something that you simply wear. It can be a combination of seemingly everyday items which take the place of "implanted" devices into your body. For example, a single individual would simply have: [1] glasses, [2] ear pieces (like hearing aids), [3] dentures and [4] a chastity device attached. No surgery.
Nonot very much pain. For certain definitions of not very much.Other options which do not involve surgery would be something resembling a tatoo. It could be applied to your right hand. This makes contactless payment easy. Since it would wear off, it would be necessary to have a new one re-applied every 30 days. This also acts as a loyalty program. For people who could not afford this, a version could be offered which also includes a tatoo device on the forehead which displays color animated advertising banners. Teens would compete for certain coveted brands to be displayed on their foreheads!
Once everyone has finally been 'chipped', the entire population will be behind this. Polls will show it to be overwhelmingly popular.
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 01 2022, @07:36AM
Imagine the effect on a radius of 5m of around 44kJ [digikey.com] discharged in 1µs-1ms through a single loop of a copper bar**
**(no, not the "a domestic abuser, a klansmen, and a murderer walk into a bar. Barman: What will it be officer?" kind of bar)
(Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday June 01 2022, @01:36PM