[FRIAM] 5G

[Steve Smith]

On 7/14/22 6:53 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Why would I need 5G cell service?  I never download anything that 
> takes more than a few seconds.

you don't...

I mostly don't need (or have available) over 3G, but it is good my phone 
is 4G capable because when I travel to places with good 4G I often don't 
have WiFi access so I set it up as a hot-spot which sometimes includes 
streaming HD+ (sometimes 2x stereo for Oculus)

When I lived on 110bps (acoustically coupled) dialup I wondered at how I 
would ever (legitimately) use more than 1200bps (sneering at the folks 
jonesing for 56kbps)

IMO, as with disease vs epidemiology, an important point of higher 
capacity networks is that the constrained resources (wires, fibres, 
right-of-ways, towers, aether, etc) are used more efficiently (by orders 
of magnitude) with each Generation..  This helps (firstly) the service 
provider/industry but (lastly) also the customers.   Just think how much 
twisted pair copper would be required to support all the 300bps modems 
it would take to provide even a fraction of the bandwidth we use 
casually every second of every day.

I'm not a fan of "progress-for-progress-sake" but it does seem 
inevitable within it's own internal logic.  This references a thread 
Glen just weighed in on which fascinates me, but I'm too busy rebuilding 
a new (to me) 2012 Macbook pro to backfill for the 2010 that finally got 
too flaky to repair (at my level of understanding)...

True to form, I will probably leapfrog to AR contacts or direct 
cortex-link in a year (or decade) and eventually wonder how I ever 
bothered with "screens" and "keyboards" and "pointing devices"... or 
else the noosphere/biosphere will collapse under the weight of our 
runaway progress-for-the-sake-of-progress.

- (g)Rumble

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