Our Future is Digital
At Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, ZTE showcased the world’s first ever gigabyte phone (Phones with download speed up to 1GBPS) and Samsung S8 will be first commercially available 4G LTE cat.16 phone which can support gigabyte download speeds. But most of the operators around the world still use cat.3 4G LTE with speeds <100 MBPS and we will have to wait a little longer for a reliable high-speed wireless broadband. But the big question is why do we need faster internet? Well, we need faster internet to share things faster on internet and stream videos in 4K.
But in our near future, our digital world won’t be revolving only around our smartphone, laptop, smartwatch or our tablet but we will also be using smart cars, smart refrigerators and we will be living in smart houses in smart cities. In fact, everything is going to become smart in future.
What does that mean?
This means that everything will be interconnected to each other from our cars to houses and from our watches to our home air conditioners. These devices will be communicating over the internet with each other sharing important pieces of information among themselves and making our lives even easier.
This change will need an even faster, more reliable and a significantly economical internet connection than our current 4G LTE connections and which could serve billions of these smart devices called IoT (Internet of Things) in future.
A smart solution
And here comes 5G which will have speeds in gigabits, reduced latency and with even wider coverage which will cost users significantly lesser. 5G will be able to connect these internet enabled devices just as the blood vessels connect our important body organs together.
Many countries around the world have already started improving their digital infrastructure to accommodate this incoming digital revolution and companies like QUALCOMM have already designed new modems which can make the promise of 5G a reality.
Though there aren’t any commercial 5G networks currently around the world but many argue that it will be there before the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games unless South Korea and Samsung surprises us before in PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.
A Smart Future
With 5G and IoT and Artificial Intelligence all converging together, soon we can finally imagine a future where our smart refrigerators will be able to order Milk on Amazon Prime Now which will be delivered by Amazon’s drone which could be collected at our doorstep by a Honda humanoid robot which will place the Milk at its correct position in the fridge and none of these steps will require any human intervention.
Our future is going to be smart and it will be changed digitally.