According to Nokia’s CEO, 6g networks could enter the consumer market around 2030.
Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark. Pasi Liesimaa / IL
CEO of Nokia Pekka Lundmark believes 6g networks will be operational by the end of this decade. Lundmark predicts that with the arrival of 6g networks, terminals may no longer be like current smartphones.
The American reported the matter CNBC.
Lundmark said at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week that he speculated that 6g networks could enter the consumer market around 2030. He was asked, among other things, for an estimate of when the world will switch from using smartphones to smart glasses or similar devices. According to CNBC, Lundmark said this would happen before the arrival of 6g.
He estimates that the smartphones we know today are no longer the most common way to connect to the network at the time, but he could, according to the American media, mean a billionaire. Elon Muskin Devices developed by Neuralink that can be connected directly to the brain and used to communicate with people and machines, among other things.
Google’s CFO also took part in the discussion in Davos Ruth Porat, who stated that augmented reality (AR) may solve various problems in the future. He mentioned, for example, that smart glasses that turn conversations into real-time are already close to being realized.
Metaversums
Vice President of Meta Northern Europe Steve Hatch told Iltalehti last November that the metaverse aims to create better feelings of presence and connection through technology.
– If the past years have taught us something, then the real-life encounters between people cannot be replaced. Technology can really help us with this.
With metaversum, for example, learning environments could diversify. Rob Longert
The most significant differences for the user, especially in the long run, Hatch described using a practical example, talking about learning for the future.
– If you sit in a classroom, in the future you would not only read about the Roman Empire, but part of the lesson would be spent walking the streets and experiencing it directly.
In terms of implementation, he specifically mentioned VR and AR realities (virtual and augmented reality) at the time.
In Davos, too, technology leaders discussed the opportunities and challenges offered by the metaverse. According to Nokia’s CEO, by the end of the decade, there will already be a “digital twin” of everything, albeit “requiring massive computing capacity”. Lundmark estimates that the use of metaversum may require up to 100 or 1000 times the current speed of networks.