Now, the topic about the arrival of 5G era is hot and many people are looking forward to it. Can you imagine how 5G will change our lives in the future? Like driverless, real-Time interaction, and smart Home, telemedicine, etc. It sounds like 5G can do anything, but do you understand its drawbacks? Today we will talk about the pros and cons of 5G technology.
How will 5G transform our lives?
In the 5G era, our lives may look like this.
When we wake up in the morning, there will be a wise butler to report the weather, provide advice on dressing, and then make a car appointment for us, yes, finally there is a butler, some things can be done without our own brains; then it is out of the house, we ride in a driverless cab through the busy city; into a restaurant, there are robots to order for us, order, make coffee; before leaving work at night, the home air conditioning, TV programs are ready. TV programs are ready, and no matter where you are, download a Korean drama in just a few seconds, use your cell phone to watch HD, no longer worry about the picture card; see a doctor, at home on the line, doctors can “face to face” through the network; online shopping is also more convenient, buy clothes online not afraid of not fitting, you can use the cell phone program virtual real clothes. Watching football games, can not go to the scene is not afraid, 5G with virtual and augmented reality technology, any angle, any player, so you break through the space at will to see.
So, what exactly is 5G? In the general concept, probably 5G is a faster communication technology than 4G.
5G is the abbreviation of the fifth generation of mobile communication technology, it actually contains a number of complex technologies, but the most relevant to users are three major features.
First is the ultra-high network speed: 5G network speed is 5 to 10 times faster than 4G, dozens of Korean dramas “seconds” download is no problem! It is like a highway from 4 lanes to 100 lanes, the whole speed is 120 so painful.
Second is the ultra-low latency: 5G latency of only 0.1 milliseconds, the message delivery is almost synchronized. This is like driving the whole highway, no slow start or other bad road conditions to delay the trip. For example, driverless technology, for network latency requirements are very high, assuming that driverless cars are driving at 60 km per hour, if the delay is 60 milliseconds, the entire braking distance of the car is about 1 meter; if the delay is 10 milliseconds, the braking distance of the car is 17 cm; if you can achieve a delay of 1 millisecond, then the braking distance is only 17 mm. 5G latency As low as 0.1 milliseconds, it is natural to ensure better driving safety.
Then there is the massive connection: 5G can realize the connection of millions of devices per square kilometer, and the connection of tablet PCs, smart phones, VR/AR and other smart terminals can be connected 24 hours a day, realizing the Internet of vehicles, Internet of things and industrial Internet “Internet of everything”. “. Just like the highway is not only fast, but also has many and dense roads, which can connect with countless cities and towns without any obstruction.
These advantages of 5G can play a big role in agriculture and industrial production, and like some high-risk industries can be done by robots, robots with access to 5G signals can realize synchronized operation with controllers.
At the same time, the medical care industry, for example, will also undergo major changes. For example, doctors can perform ultrasound exams remotely via 5G ambulances, and hospitals can use 5G Drones for emergency blood supply. 5G, coupled with VR and AR technologies, can also bring an immersive experience to clinical teaching, with the benefit of shortening the training time for surgeons.
Moreover, 5G will, in the future, allow cell phones and computers to be used in applications that are no longer limited by the configuration of the device itself, but can be used to obtain more powerful processing power with the help of cloud-based services.
For example, photographers shooting in the field, you can use the cloud server to store pictures, without carrying several storage disk, pictures and video processing is also more convenient, the information exists in the cloud, editing is also in the cloud, as long as you bring a piece of “screen” can be connected to 5G.
And 5G era to do news, but also do not have to run the scene, you can use driverless cars, drones and other equipment work, not only faster, but also to avoid some dangerous places.
To sum up, 5G network not only allows users to enjoy ultra-high Internet speed, but also enjoy the full sensory experience of sight, sound, and even touch with VR and AR technologies. At the same time, 5G’s massive connectivity will also enable people to enjoy the convenience of the Internet in a variety of fields, including smart homes, smart manufacturing, and driverless devices. Therefore, 5G will be a truly converged network, helping to provide high-speed, secure, and free connectivity between people, things, and things.
5G is an era of “information nakedness”
However, there are two sides to everything. While we enjoy the convenience of “Internet of Everything”, our privacy will no longer be private.
For example, when we watch TV and movies, there are often episodes where the police use cell phones to locate and arrest criminals, and they are often portrayed in a very tense and exciting way, such as when the bomb on the hostage is about to explode and the police have not yet found out the location of the hostage. But this situation may reflect the reality, because in the 2G, 3G, even now 4G era, through the cell phone signal positioning is not easy, and the accuracy will be some deviation.
But in the 5G era, if we want to achieve continuous signal coverage, the 5G base stations will be almost everywhere in our lives in the future. And because of the weak penetration of 5G, the future 5G network coverage inside buildings will be carried out by many home base stations. What is the impact of this? The most immediate impact is that as long as your phone is connected to the 5G network, then you could be pinpointed anywhere, anytime!
This is definitely a good thing for the police to combat criminals, but for ordinary users, this may cause a “major privacy risk”, because as long as the operator is willing, it will be able to know where you are at any time, anywhere, know where you are in which neighborhood, which building, which room, and even which corner, even if you hide in the Even if you hide in the closet or under the bed, it knows.
The mainland Writer Liu Cixin, in his 2010 Science Fiction novel “Love in Taiyuan”, once depicted a future world where “everything is connected”, the book said: In 2026, all appliances in the home, even nail clippers and bottle openers are connected to the Internet, they are always at the disposal of their masters, but the lurking Internet virus is also starting to show its They are at the disposal of their owners. One girl wrote the “curse” virus, manipulating it to send erroneous medical reports to psychologically fragile people, to make breakup calls to lovers in love, and even to program a man she hated to kill.
When “Love in Taiyuan” was published, China was still in the 2G era, and people at the time would have thought that the novel was a fantasy, but now, everything is becoming more and more real. How does it feel when everything around you is connected? Will there be a sense of uncontrollable fear.
And Facebook’s CEO Zuckerberg once said that when we live in this era of information interoperability, privacy as a moral concept will die completely.
How to ensure the security of everything connected?
At the same time, 5G also has security risks that are worrisome.
At the 2020 GeekPwn International Security Geek Competition, Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab demonstrated a recent discovery that by using the design of 5G communication protocols, Hackers can “hijack” the TCP communication of any cell phone covered by the same base station, including all kinds of SMS sending and receiving, App and server communication. and server-side communications can be hijacked.
In fact, this is not the first time that 5G has been exposed to security vulnerabilities. At the end of 2019, researchers at Purdue University and the University of Iowa have identified multiple security vulnerabilities in 5G networks that could allow hackers to easily access the call and SMS records of the attacker.
Along with information security comes the issue of personal safety. Let’s imagine a person is sitting inside a self-driving car on the highway, but hackers suddenly break into the system and take control of the car. Or the video and data of the smart home is stolen, then it means that there is not only the worry of privacy but also the worry of Life.
5G applications, which further break the boundaries of various socio-economic sectors, intertwine with real economic security issues such as industry, energy, communication, and healthcare, which also make the issue of cyber security complex and volatile.
As a result, the CEO of one of China’s largest Internet security companies said, “The future will see tens of billions of connected devices, each of which could be an entry point for an attack that cannot be defended against.”
Modern technologies such as AI lead to digital totalitarianism
Outside of privacy and security, 5G, which integrates artificial intelligence, big data, Cloud Computing and other high technologies, has more than just human impact.
In the case of Israeli historian Yuval Noor, the impact of 5G on the human race is not limited. Harari (Yuval Noah Harari) wrote a book “A Brief History of Today: The Great Issues of Human Destiny” (21 Lessons for the21st Century), Harari focused on the impact of artificial intelligence AI on human beings, he believes that it, if human data is controlled by AI and robots, and AI and robots are controlled by a few technology giant control, then the future is not just to take away human jobs so simple, then there will be another serious problem: data dictatorship.
In addition, Hilarie also believes that AI and robots will destroy “liberalism” on a spiritual level, completely depriving humans of their freedom. What is “liberalism”? In simple terms, it is the implementation of democratic elections in politics, the free market in the economy, and the freedom to do everything at the individual level without infringing on the premise of others.
What Hilarie said is the reality of today’s world: Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent and other technology giants have a lot of people’s data and information. These tech giants know everything about people’s habits and privacy, and not only that, they are using the platforms they control, such as social media, to suppress freedom of expression.
Worse, when technology is manipulated and used by a totalitarian government, the control over people is pushed to the extreme. There is much evidence that the Chinese Communist government uses artificial intelligence and high technology to monitor people, particularly using facial and voice recognition, location tracking, and other biometric data to control minorities.
One information research scientist said, “If an authoritarian government retains this personal data and can use it not only to control, but even to encourage or punish certain behaviors, that is totalitarianism. The scientist also referred to China’s technology surveillance as China’s “digital totalitarianism.
In February 2019, market research firm IDC released a report predicting that there will be 2.76 billion video surveillance cameras installed in China by 2022, with an average of two cameras monitoring every Chinese person. Another research firm said that China has become the world’s largest market for surveillance technology, with three-quarters of the world’s servers used to search for faces on video being purchased by China. Meanwhile, Freedom House, an international human rights organization, has released an annual report that again ranks China as one of the least free countries in the world, with its freedom ratings dropping even more than last year.
Not only that, but the Communist Party is also pushing digital totalitarianism into the world.
Of the 65 countries evaluated in Freedom House’s 2018 Internet Freedom Report, Communist Party officials held training sessions and workshops on new media and information management for delegates from 36 of those countries. Communist state-owned and private companies are developing telecommunications infrastructure in 38 countries, while companies in the surveillance business like Hikvision and CloudWalk are selling face recognition technology to 18 countries, using artificial intelligence to identify and monitor people.
Will technology lead to a complete loss of human freedom?
What’s even scarier is that in the book “A Brief History of Today”, Hilarie also mentions that in the long run, AI and robots will understand their emotions better than humans, and even manipulate them. Because essentially, the reason why humans feel differently about various things is because of the division of labor of biochemical mechanisms in the human body.
For example, when we feel happy and joyful because of something, behind it is actually a combination of serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and other neurons and biochemicals.
Hilarie said that in the future, AI can achieve instant monitoring of human biochemical mechanisms, so as to predict and manipulate human behavior. Perhaps in the near future, humans no longer have self-awareness, everything is the result of manipulation.
It sounds really scary. In fact, this is not alarming, because we can really feel that the development of technology has made the human mind become more and more closed and narrow. In the modern society where technology has become the master of the world, some people have worshiped science as a religion, people have become more and more materialistic and realistic, and the expansion of technology has not only caused the destruction of nature, but also alienated people from Culture and religion, leading to the atrophy and decadence of the human spiritual world.
Technology is not omnipotent, no matter how advanced it seems today, natural disasters still happen, and human disasters cannot be avoided, just like the plague that is ravaging the world right now, the real domination of human society has never been technology, but if we worship science as a religion, and thumb our noses at true religion and faith, then we are really in danger.
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