[FRIAM] 5G

[Steve Smith]

The actual gestural referent of my tangent made more explicit:

    https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/10/a-new-milestone-in-augmented-reality-functional-contact-lenses/

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-augmented-reality

On 7/14/22 7:31 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> 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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