In this blog post, I will take a full circle around the current situation of global 5G roll out, what apple’s iPhone 12 will do for adoption of 5G and back to USA Govt’s ban on Huawei. But first, what is actually 5G ? 5G is the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, which cellular phone… Continue reading 5G, iphone12 and trade wars.
Category: Tech/Social Trends
More on ‘the social dilemma’
It is ironic that I am watching a documentary about social media addiction on netflix, which is again an addiction platform. Of course Netflix is different from social media.1) Netflix is a paid service. Netflix is not serving users with third party ads or recommendations.2) We make a decision to see Netflix by paying for… Continue reading More on ‘the social dilemma’
The social dilemma
'The social dilemma' is a must watch.It left me shaking my head on a Saturday. I already made steps to scrape whatever time spent on social media.In fact it got me thinking about deleting some accounts for good. The attention extraction business model is not a healthy way for humanity. You need to watch this… Continue reading The social dilemma
A question about working from home.
A true story. A social service organisation dug up a drinking water well right in the middle of a very remote village.The team was so happy they could provide clean water to villagers. Before this new well, villagers used to travel 5 kilometres to fetch water.Donor agency was happy too. They came, launched the well… Continue reading A question about working from home.
“something went wrong, Reload”
This is what got prompted when I tried to open a Google sheet. This sheet was so precious to me. Very important data was in that document. The issue was with this file only. All other files were working fine. That got me anxious. Did I lose my data here ? Then there was "… Continue reading “something went wrong, Reload”
4G broadband is a Luxury.
Living in Piliyandala, I have taken 4G broadband for granted. This is the internet I received today in Anuradhapura. An eye blinding speed of 0.04 Mbps download and 0.11 Mbps upload. Just 6 kilometers in to the main road (not a byroad) towards Mihintale, 4G broadband is almost non existent from my ISP. I checked… Continue reading 4G broadband is a Luxury.
Gig workers are humans
One day, after receiving the food from UberEats driver, I was puzzled to see this 50 maybe years old man shaking my hand with a curvy smile on his face. I asked why ? "Thank you for been out of your home, thank you for looking at the map and been there for me the… Continue reading Gig workers are humans
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