The next generation of wireless networks—5G—is one of the fundamental enablers of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, and as society shifts toward a “new normal” of decentralized life, its advantages become critical.
Experts on the nascent technology gathered online for the Collision from Home conference on June 23 to discuss 5G’s revolutionary nature and how humans will likely need to adapt to utilize its benefits. The annual Collision technology conference—one of the world’s premier tech summits—went virtual this year due to the pandemic.
It’s a silver lining of COVID-19 that this societal transformation is as convincing as it is nowadays to more people, said Marcus Weldon, chief technology officer and president at Nokia Bell Labs, when interviewed on the first day of the three-day online summit hosted in Toronto.
