人与社会——未来生活
背景导入：5G作为经济社会数字化转型的关键使能器， 通过与大数据、人工智能、云计算等技术的交叉融合， 赋能制造业转型升级和优化发展， 5G技术以及未来5G对我们日常生活的影响。
Forging a 5G future
The future in scifi movies seems so close, yet so far away. Delightfully, 5G technology makes that future look easily achievable①. Schools, hospitals, transportation, factories—even our homes will soon use this powerful wireless network. Last year, China started testing 5G mobile networks in its several cities. So what is 5G? It's the latest generation of cellular (蜂窝状的) network technology. It is faster and more stable than 4G, the previous generation.
5G's benefits mainly come from speed and connectivity②. The advantage of higher speeds is obvious. People will be able to use the Internet at a much greater speed than before. Imagine being able to download an entire movie in just a few seconds! That's how fast 5G will be.
With 5G, people can conveniently solve many problems.For example, one of the biggest problems with developing driverless cars is the delay between sending a signal and receiving it. Driverless cars③ must be able to react instantly to sudden changes in their environment, such as a dog running across the road.This will require these cars to send and receive huge amounts of data within milliseconds④. Such speed helps other technologies, too. It will also allow doctors to perform operations remotely, using robots. The robots will respond more quickly to the doctors' movements.
So what about 5G's connectivity？We may develop “smart” environments with it.Imagine having a smart home that automatically⑤ turns the lights on when you open your front door.
“New things become possible when you can move information at a massive scale⑥， ” Gordon Smith, CEO of telecom equipment reseller Sagent, told TheTelegraph.“5G becomes the great enabler.”
No matter where it is implemented, it looks like 5G will bring us a more exciting and convenient future.
①achievable adj. 可完成的；可有成就的
②connectivity n. 连通(性), 联结(度)
③driverless cars 无人驾驶汽车
④milliseconds n．[计量]毫秒
⑤automatically adv. 无意识地；自动地
⑥at a massive scale 大规模地
