5G: The Trouble With the New Phone Network

Get a free copy of 80,000 Hours' in-depth career guide at 80000hours.org/sabine to get started planning a career that tackles one of the world's most pressing problems. Correction to what I say at 15 mins 57 seconds: It's should be 3 orders of magnitude, not 30. You'd think that technology and science make a good team, and most often that's true, but every once in a while they get into a big fight. One such case is the 5th generation of wireless networks, 5G for short, that's become a big headache for meteorologist because millimeter waves interfere with the weather forecast. On that occasion I also tell you about a recent review on the health effects of 5G and what 6G may bring. 💌 Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It's free! ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsle... 👉 Support me on Patreon ➜   / sabine   📖 My new book "Existential Physics" is now on sale ➜ http://existentialphysics.com/ 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜    / @sabinehossenfelder   The estimate for the number of mobile devices is from here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/2... The Cisco estimate for the 5G use is here: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsro... The recent review on the health effects of 5G is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4137... The call from the WHO for 5G studies is here: https://www.who.int/news-room/article... The figure for the forecast skill is from this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... The Jacobs quote from the federal hearing is from here: https://science.house.gov/hearings/th... The two CTIA blogposts are here: https://www.ctia.org/news/how-a-fake-... https://www.ctia.org/news/the-24-ghz-... The 2020 study from Rutgers about how 5G affects weather forecast is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13498 The 6G article on LifeWire which I quote is here: https://www.lifewire.com/6g-wireless-... Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/ 00:00 Intro 00:48 Sponsor message 02:13 What's new about 5G? 03:56 Why is 5G controversial? 06:30 How 5G affects the weather forecast 10:00 Meteorologists are not happy 11:15 The other side of the story 14:08 6G 15:22 What's the lesson? #science #technology