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5G: Technology rules! But is that a good thing?
There seems to be no questioning the technological imperative both machinic and human, writes DENNIS BROE
Still from Two or Three Things I Know About Her... directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
5G will when it is fully operative increase download speeds such that general mobile phone internet activity will be 20 to 100 times faster, greatly enhancing watching Series TV on the go.
5G will also, its promoters claim, fulfil the promise of both artificial intelligence and the internet of things; of interconnected smart homes, smart cars and consumers served by smart farms and operated on by smart machines.
What could go wrong? Plenty, say 5G critics in France.
In the US and across Asia, in particularly in China and South Korea, the answer to what can go wrong is nothing.
In the US the “debate” over 5G is only on how fast and efficient the service is. The “criticism” is that the Verizon-Apple iPhone 12 and the AT&T-Galaxy 5G rollout, even in the large cities, is only partial, 4 times rather than 20 times faster.
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