The most interesting stuff about 5G are the theories about how it will cook our brains and mind-control us.
It still isn't disproved that certain bands of electromagnetism cannot induce random mutations, so there is that. I am not even keenly interested in faster mobile networks because mobile devices are that bad anyway. In the industry it will probably have its niche, but I think the infrastructure needed is quite wasteful.
Never heard of edge computing. I do think that many devices should not necessarily connect to servers of the manufacturer and rooting everything through the cloud is wasteful and can be a huge privacy problem too.
> Google removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct
If Google is the problem afflicting society than we can smile because in all probability we all died and went to heaven. /s
At the end of the day people want an improvement in their quality of life and on a relatively short timeframe.
People can't wait for the biblical times of beurocracy to get it perfect, they are more than happy with the good enough.
They get a taste of that "good enough" and if it's really good enough they become repeat customers/users. Much like it happened with Microsoft,Google, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube...
And it's happening right now with Xiaomi, Huawei etc.
Startups will always prevail on EU Parliament (or any other Parliament for that matter) because they are comfortable operating at the unknown frontier, whereas Parliament need to have a clear and detailed map before they even think about venturing there.
The only peril that startups have is venturing into cult and fraud, young people are tempted to follow the dark path of Theranos, WeWork (and also another company I won't mention because I don't want to start a flame war) whereas they should aim to be more like Microsoft . Microsoft never needed outside money, always had 1+ year of cash in the bank and always implored analysts and investment bankers to be ultra-conservative with their estimates