In Order to counter the threat of China Spying the Gov't wants to build a 5G network (Discussion)

5g changing the world for the better is a good sales slogan. Like GE selling cheap nuclear reactors that melt down and advertising themselves as bringing good things to life.

Beta testing is already under way in the land of stupid decisions.


Sad part is, that no matter how fast it is capable of going, it will be throttled to current speeds anyway, because it not about good service, its about making money.

NYC already has plans to install a terahertz network that can provide 1tb service to each household for free and 2tb service for a fee. Terahertz frequencies are between microwave and infrared and can penetrate walls. Optical combs have been able to break up a laser beam into thousands of frequencies for decades, but only recently has anyone managed to pick a single frequency out from the all the others. Within ten years at most I’d say the technology should be ready for mass adoption, after the military has a chance to finish playing with it. Using those frequencies a cellphone sized device can look right through your cloths from across the street and a shoe box sized device can look through walls and merely raise the temperature in the room slightly.

The US and others have been waiting for decades for the technology to mature to the point where they can rewire and re-plumb the entire planet, but without a Theory of Everything they have no clue how to do it in the most efficient and effective manner that, of course, gives them the greatest advantage. The fact that we are increasingly dependent on flawed AI that nobody comprehends is not helping them calm down either.