5G: Is it safe? Nobody seems to know
The new 5G (fifth-generation) cell phone network will start to roll out next year. With speeds that could be as much as 100 times faster than the current 4G network, 5G will have the capacity to deliver the‘Internet of Things’—so your fridge can notify you (or Amazon) when you’re low on milk, for instance. It will be a major fillip for new services, and, of course, for the cell phone manufacturers who are preparing their new compatible handsets. Even President Trump has gotten in on the act, tweeting he “wants 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible.”
Industry observers say that the technological leap 5G will deliver is akin to the shift from typewriters to personal computers—but some scientists are less enthusiastic and see it as one vast human health experiment. With no safe
