China’s new 30Mw state of the art radar system sees over 2,800km
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to extend the detection range of your military systems is a critical piece of any military’s arsenal and China’s newest radar system thrashes everyone elses. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
T-Mobile teams with crypto carrier Helium to help people make money on the side
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating crypto-mining routers that lets T-Mobile offload their cellular data to a mesh network based backhaul operator T-Mobile’s customers can now make money by helping transfer other people’s data. Weird but cool. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself...
Quantum sensors help BT boost the power of its 5G network a hundred fold
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While this technology is new and emerging it shows great promise for the future. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. British telecoms giant BT is...
T-Mobile and SpaceX team up to end mobile dead zones in the USA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating a hybrid service T-Mobile can now use StarLink’s satellite internet systems to offer mobile coverage to every inch of the US. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
QRate uses QKD quantum tech to prevent autonomous vehicles being hacked
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When someone hacks your connected toaster it’s a nuisance, but when someone takes control of millions of connected cars and crashes them into one another it’s a bigger problem – now there’s a solution to prevent that. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
5G and Smart City sensor networks could give autonomous vehicles collective perception
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Vehicles and other city infrastructure could share information about their environments and end up with collective perception to make the streets safer. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Viettel 5G network in Vietnam smashes world records to hit 4.7Gbps speeds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time almost all new technologies improve in performance and this is a staggering new speed record for 5G networks. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
5G connected ambulance lets remote clinicians direct paramedics in real time using haptics
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sometimes the medical experts you need are hundreds of miles away but now they can be right there with the patient thanks to 5G. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The South...
MotoGP stands up the world’s first ultra-fast standalone 5G broadcasting system
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One of 5G’s major future use cases is being able to stream live events in 8k without the need for hideously expensive professional broadcast equipment. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. 5G...
Researchers extend the range of super speed 5G mmWave with lasers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The distance that mmWave 5G signals can travel to deliver super fast speeds is really short and unreliable – this is one solution to that problem. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Volumetric video startup turns 2D video streams into interactive 3D content
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future everything will be volumetric and 3D, and this is another example of the new tech that will get us there. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Virtual Reality (VR)...
Researchers break the speed limit to bring 5G to the Internet of Things
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future will contain lots of smart things and smart sensors – and they’ll all want to talk to one another. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Researchers in the US have...
Halo launches the first 5G tele-operated driverless car service in Las Vegas
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Even the best self-driving cars are only a Category 2, out of 5, so if you want a truly driverless car then this is as close as you’ll get for now. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
China just performed the world’s first remote neuro-surgery over 5G
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sometimes experts are based in other cities, and if you need access to a surgeon that can be a problem – but 5G and remote surgery solves that problem. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
Material that harvests electricity directly from 5G signals ushers in the “Internet of Electricity”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine never having to plug your devices into a plug socket again, and accessing electricity in the same way you access WiFi – that’s now possible. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
New Qualcomm hardware smashes existing 5G distance record
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The fastest form of 5G, mmWave, has a limited distance of a mile or so, this latest breakthrough smashes that barrier, but there’s still more that needs to be done before everyone gets access to super fast 5G. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
Researchers say deep learning will help free up spectrum for future 5G and 6G networks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the radio spectrums get more crowded we need a new way to keep our communications systems working, and AI is coming to the rescue. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Futurist Keynote, London: The Future of Communities and Housing, British Property Federation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The places where we live and the communities we live in help make us who we are and shape our future and the way we build communities in the future will benefit everyone. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Developers show off next gen apps that get streamed to your phone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more services move to the cloud and network speeds increase it’s inevitable that everything will be streamed. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. We are truly entering the streaming era where everything, not just our movies, shows...
Verizon shows off their latest Superbowl 5G experience
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 5G will help organisations deliver a whole variety of new customer experiences, like these… Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of the questions I often get asked is what’s so special about 5G? 5G is what I...
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