Opinion | South Africa doesn’t need faster internet, by Paul Colmer
, he likely didn’t foresee it being used to describe the technology quandary we find ourselves in today.
Moore’s Law suggested that processing speeds would roughly double every two years, and for the past decade or more, it’s held true. If you think about it, we’re also there or thereabouts in most aspects of technology, including internet speeds. From the early days of dial-up internet, today’s consumers are already getting used to surfing the web at close to 1Gbit/s or more, and there’s no sign that we’re going to slow down anytime soon.
What are we possibly going do with 6G? There’s a limit to how fast we move and process information. We can’t watch movies at three times the speed. 6G proponents will have you believe the next-gen technology will enable interpersonal human communication, using internal implants likeHowever, 6G uses extremely high millimetre-wave transmission, which doesn’t penetrate beyond free airspace, not even through human skin, which makes it useless for what the technology is touted to enable .
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