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And a long list of new technologies thay we have no idea the long term effects of. I once confessed to a friend that I did not like my apartment being encircle

• lagadu 5y ago
  We may not know the long term effects of many new things but our standards for health and safety testing along with increased ability to detect and treat many health problems early definitively give us a big leg up over past generations.
• thombat 5y ago
  5G spectrum is various bands from 700MHz -> 95GHz [1]. So the corresponding wavelengths range from 45cm down to 3mm - if constructive interference is a concern than rather than worry about the siting of your apartment it's the positioning of your sofa and how deeply you breathe that matters. [1] https://www.rfpage.com/what-are-5g-frequency-bands/ https://www.rfpage.com/what-are-5g-frequency-bands/
  • tetris11 5y ago
    thanks for this link, and the context
• oblio 5y ago
  We don't know the long term effects of any invention, but... At least we <<think>> of them and <<plan>> for them now. Some stuff we can analyze based on similar materials, technologies, and we can extrapolate. We can even design tests to age them and see what happens. There's a reason everything is more complex these days, because we're starting to add a magic word to everything: <<sustainability>> (i.e.: does it kill us directly or or does it kill the environment around us, ergo killing us indirectly?). Ignoring this aspect would mean that we assume humans never learn, which is provably false.