The Near Future Will Bring About Wireless Tech that is 1,000 Times Faster than 4G

[raos044]

great wireless will be faster....what about the wired infrastructure the wireless sits on?

 

[tjk629]

Way on down the road, when I'm talking to my Grand kids, I'm going to tell them about AOL and when they first came out with Dialup, getting 56k, and we were like "Yes!! We're connected!" ... They'll just look at me and tell me how badly I'm showing my age talking about that.

I asked my 12 year old niece if custom ringtones were still cool. She looked at me like :blink:

I'm 23...

 

[djsiva]

great wireless will be faster....what about the wired infrastructure the wireless sits on?

True.....you are only as fast as your weakest link.

 

[mountainbikermark]

Man I hear ya! I remember downloading a song and I was beside myself when it only took 10 mins lol.

Tell them how life managed to exist, though we'll never know how, before text messages, IM and video calls while your at it. When I was a kid the video calling on the Jetsons was no more than a fantasy cartoon and car phones and cordless phones, like in the show UFO, seemed impossible.

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[kodiak799]

I started at 150 baud, then 300 baud and man, was I cruising!

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That's hard to visualize, though. Just show them an old 5 1/4" floppy!

 

[Alvarez13]

Porn will come in so fast and so clear that our society will be destroyed.

Better than freakin' volcanoes and tidal waves.

 

[dl1762]

So do you think long island suffolk county ny. Will get 4g by then?

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[The Robot Cow]

Ah the good old times of dial-up and aol. Did anyone else feel like dsl(or whatever type of internet you upgraded to) was the best thing ever?

 

[Bigaliensexmachine3000]

That's hard to visualize, though. Just show them an old 5 1/4" floppy!

Better think twice before doing that.

 

[The Robot Cow]

Better think twice before doing that.

lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JohnnytheK]

With that speed of communication packets of data get sent so fast, that just like with fiber optics you get instant bandwidth.
Prices will have to come down if they want to sell content. Amazon and Apple have proved that content is king, that's where you make your money.

I think they're being cheap bastards now with 2 GB and then maybe throttle you back. I constantly use 2-5 every month and I can't believe that anyone
would say that I was being a hog.

 

[ambrown]

I don't like being a downer on future tech by any means but just because the tech exists doesn't mean we'll get to use it right away. Greedy corporations, red tape, and politics will hold back innovation as they always have. As an example; Nikola Tesla pioneered several inventions and improvements on existing tech, but it didn't go anywhere in his lifetime. He built an electric car and drove it around before abandoning it because of its poor reception.

Plus wouldn't taking advantage of microwave frequencies mess with microwaves and vice versa? And who even knows how much more cancer it'll end up giving us (slight irony intended).

Just saying, lab results in a controlled environment are different in the real world. physically and politically.

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[Hugh Jass]

Difference being saturation, Nikola Tesla's innovations were only known to a small population of people during his lifetime, advancements and breakthroughs in tech are known within the hour today on a global scale. Same rules do not apply.

 

[ambrown]

Difference being saturation, Nikola Tesla's innovations were only known to a small population of people during his lifetime, advancements and breakthroughs in tech are known within the hour today on a global scale. Same rules do not apply.

You could make that argument, but I think the similarities are greater then you think. For one you say saturation is drastically different, but though we have 24/7 access to the information superhighway doesn't mean more people outside of scientific circles know about it. Ask any Joe on the street about that awesome future LTE on the way and he'll likely not know what you're talking about. Heck I'd even say that most people don't even know what LTE stands for. So while it's true more people are learning about cutting edge discoveries than ever before, and faster than ever before, I'd venture to say that the average American won't take advantage of that ability and it'll be up to the carriers and specialists to decide how and when to implement new cellular technology.

But enough of that. I'm all for future tech, I just think there will be some hurdles to getting there. Especially since carriers are currently in an arms race to pick up as much spectrum as they can buy, and that the FCC will let them, and its hard to license spectrum that is designated for other things; i.e. radio, GPS, TV, etc..


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[geoff5093]

I see lots of issues with this. One, the backbone is already too slow for multiple users on the current LTE infrastructure, I don't see them being able to support multiple people on gigabit wireless links. Two, with frequencies in the terahertz range will be drastically dropped, requiring lots more towers.