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Localisation & 5 G

https://worldlocalizationday.org/ Localization is a new human story founded on the principles of connection and diversity.

A thought for the Localisation day workshop.. As a layman, more ideologically incline, I believe that the way Big tech is planning roll out of 5G seems to do overcome the main issues of High band, High Spped, High density local transmission into one that is connected so as to "centralise" ( ie applications across vertical markets such as manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation, where 5G will play a major role in everything from advanced manufacturing automation to fully autonomous vehicles. https://www.digi.com/blog/post/5g-network-architecture )

As a persons who believes in subsidiarity, I feel that the more of our techies should work on developing local servers, connected to devices on rooftops, or pillons which are in turn connected by LAN or wire to homes/offices or even street devices like webcams , . This I suppose will greatly reduce the radiation inside homes and offices and at the street level.

5 G can also be used to create local consumer and producer groups, as well as cultural organisations, if local servers provide applications for e tailing, home services, local transport. The local servers can in turn process on batch processing basis services and good from or to a larger area.
The same logic will work for social media.. where perhaps the density and intensity of message is more local, and the wider global can be reached through piping and interfaceable applications rather than the large unipolar apps like whats app.

I have not been able to convince young techies to work on this approach, even though it provides better and more distributed employment opportunities, because they feel they cannot fight the system, or the efficiency of the centralised system. Can we work towards enabling inspiring our youngsters, many of whom have dropped out of IT companies, and are now doing farming.. Perhaps they can use their knowledge to further a more human scale IT arhitecture..

Mired in Past, Messing with Present, Muddled about Future

Parakala Prabhakar https://youtu.be/PiiK4S47tM4?t=86 The ruling dispensation seems to be mired in a shamanic view of COVID. Also the planning for the post covid economy seems to be limited to talk about e mobility, next gen batteries, artificial intelligence, and 5G technologies. No bread and butter issues, that afflict the marginal and vulnerable today or in the next few years..

There is very little post pandemic scenario planning, and the parliamentary committee on Finance reportedly expressed dissatisfaction the Niti Aayog presentation, while it spoke of two extreme possibilities, did not outline anything about what India could need to do.. Public Universities are also not working on post pandemic scenarios..

Obscurantist narratives prevail in the current dispensation which has lead to underestimation of the challenge and overestimation of our exceptionalism.. preceding an assault on scientific temper.

Ref: Preparing for a post Pandemic Economy: from Sunset to Sunrise areas of growth.. amitabh kant 4th March 2021 http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/covid/813-preparing-for-a-post-pandemic-economy-from-sunset-to-sunrise-areas-of-growth

Ref: Indian economy to bounce back soon from effects of COVID-19: NITI Aayog Vice Chairman https://dst.gov.in/indian-economy-bounce-back-soon-effects-covid-19-niti-aayog-vice-chairman

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