How telemedicine is changing the way we use our phones and drive our cars

The new, fast internet is on the advance. Maybe not as fast as the old internet, but even the ancient Greeks knew: the hare is faster than the fox. But the areas of application for the 5th generation of wireless data transmission are already clear; first and foremost telemedicine. Because nothing is more important than beaming microwaves to the last corner of the republic to find that people are getting sick from the radiation. Well, except perhaps for streaming services, because with the new download speeds, 20 HD videos can be watched live in parallel. When prioritising the planned applications, everything was taken into account, of course, except the ergonomic needs of the population.

So instead of continuing to make the expansion of 4G seamless and to stabilise it, they are starting to sell the 5G licences to selected companies for billions and to set specifications for them that most of the bidders will not be able to meet.
Well, it's done and the old customers are paying with arbitrary price increases from their providers to finance the investments. After all, we all want to enjoy 5G quickly (see above).

Technically, this is not a problem at all. Where there are now 2, 3 and 4G antennas and transmitting stations, new ones will be added. And because development - also in terms of housing - is not standing still, they don't need as much space. Unfortunately, however, the range of the higher frequencies is so small that 20 times more repeaters or transmitters are needed between the masts in the form of a network so that the fast internet is really fast across the board; otherwise the connection will fall back to LTE or GSM, and that would be like in the Stone Age.

We all know it: you can't heat food at the other end of the kitchen with a microwave either, you have to put it on the turntable. And the 5G frequencies are so similar to those of microwave ovens that Siemens has already suggested that instead of going to the trouble of building antennas on the streets or sticking them on house walls, they should use the microwaves directly in the households. Then there will also be no more complaints about poor reception as with the 4G coverage gaps. And the critics who fear electrosmog are all ecologists anyway and don't have a microwave at home - and accordingly don't need 5G.

If they get sick and the tele-doctor can't visit and diagnose them via their PC - which they don't have either - then it's not because they're damaged by the microwaves either, but have become ill from their refusal to open up to the modern world.

The old ways of communication will be history. No one uses their smartphone to make phone calls, we walk around with 3D glasses, if we still use our legs, and meet our facebook friends in virtual cities where the sun always shines and amazon tells us what to buy.
Just in case, until we reach the desired density of antennas at a distance from street lamps (this is a secret tip: build the antennas in the street lamps, everything you need is there: Electricity, proximity to streets and houses where the people it is meant for live...) are still allowed to be driven in cars, because combustion engines will be banned and electric cars will only be allowed into city centres with purple badges guaranteeing that the car has been charged with green electricity from Finland, the cars will stop as soon as the internet control no longer receives 5G signals and the incapacitated declared driver is not allowed to look out of the windscreen himself to see if the road is clear.

We can look forward to a better world where we achieve all our goals without leaving the house and don't get sick because our avatars always look good. But if we no longer get sick or no one notices because we are travelling at 5G speeds, why do we need 5G-enabled telemedicine?