Unsurprising result
ZH focuses on early adopters of 5G "tech" in South Korea. Koreans know how to get shit done, so it's a safe assumption that SK is the best-case example of 5G. Early adopters are saying 5G is meaningless. It's not faster, and often slower.

Totally unsurprising. I haven't bothered to keep up with this shit since I've never owned or used or touched any sort of cell phone, but this is just the latest in a LONG string of tech hypes.

Some inventions are genuinely new and make a genuine difference. Advances in speed are NOT genuinely new and CAN'T make a genuine difference.

We know from 30 years of experience in the digital world that every advance in speed or computing capacity SLOWS DOWN normal work. The makers of software and operating systems ALWAYS respond to the increase by OVERLOADING new and totally MEANINGLESS features and security theater.

Even without the overbloat, there's no reason to think that faster transmission speeds will serve human needs better. Human needs just don't move that fast.

As I've been documenting here, all recent innovation is actually limitation. Switching from paper ballots to electronic ballots ISN'T FASTER, it's just easier to cheat. Uber isn't more flexible than real taxis, it's less flexible because you can't call Uber on a landline.

There is one genuinely new aspect to the 5G hype. Because the Trump administration has decided to use 5G as leverage against Huawei for unknown and unknowable delusional insane "reasons", 5G is hyped vastly more than other increases in speed. 5G is supposed to be the "next Sputnik" or something. The metaphor itself is backwards, since Sputnik was a Russian victory that caused America to ruin its school system. Well, maybe it's not backwards. Everything we do now is utterly self-destructive. Everything that happens in DC and NYC obliterates America. That's the purpose, not an unintended consequence. Omnicide is the goal.

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