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Here’s How 5G Might Make Work More Creative and Meaningful

Tannya Jajal
6 min readAug 16, 2020

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Harnessing the power of AR, VR and The Tactile Internet

Today, exponential technologies and disruptive innovations are ushering in a world of accelerating change. Every day, old industries are being destroyed and new ones are born. As a result, the nature of work is drastically changing, to say the least. We’re at the cusp of what experts call The Fourth Industrial Revolution. This revolution hinges on 5G Technology. 5G will not only power our economy but also transform our daily lives and the consumer experience.

Simply put, 5G stands for the fifth generation of mobile networks. We can speculate about its implications, but the changes induced by 5G will be exponential, making it difficult for us to precisely describe what 5G is or what it entails.

Currently, the mobile data that we utilize runs on 4G LTE networks. Given the speed with which we can access vast amounts of data, we may think that 4G networks are fast and agile; but next-generation 5G services will accelerate current data connections by10, or even 100 times. 5G is not just an incremental upgrade from 4G, it represents a significant leap forward.

To put it succinctly, 5G brings three things to the table:

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Tannya Jajal
Tannya Jajal

Written by Tannya Jajal

Founder of AIDEN, a think tank that solves the $8.8 Trillion employee disengagement problem. www.aiden.global https://technophilosophy.substack.com/

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