My expectations about 5G technology were very high because I was predicting the good things it could do. However, the burning of a 5G tower on the grounds that it has spread Coronavirus in the UK brings a new assessment.

IN AN OLD JOKE, there was a phrase, “If you say that it is good deed then I am smoking, if you say that it is haram then I burn it”. The fact that a 5G tower was set on fire in the UK following allegations that 5G caused the spread of Coronavirus reminded me of that phrase. So let me start writing like this: do not burn 5G, smoke it.

Coronavirus creates the most favorable conditions for the transition to 5G by destroying the systems owned and installed by people. You can develop a conspiracy theory through this, but don’t do it because it’s no use. Be smarter than Coronavirus. In a theory I heard it was pointed out that the Coronavirus took actions that would reduce the body temperature to the level that it could live. The Coronavirus, which acts with the motivation to provide living conditions as much as reproducing itself, kills the person in which it is settled and this is point where exactly it fails. This is no different from our relationship with the world during that industrial society phase. When I am talking about being smarter, I mean this too.

After this long basement, let’s come to what we can do with 5G. If we don’t burn the towers, 5G can provide us with a communication infrastructure that technically offers high bandwidth, low latency and high capacity. The most important aspect of its reflection on life is to keep all terminals connected to the 5G network up-to-date. Telecom operators are still trying to explain this new communication protocol with movie download times, considering that people will not understand 5G. If you forget this, you will better understand what I am telling.

If I give an example from the Coronavirus period, 5G is a system that enables us to serve the current information regarding this epidemic on all related devices. This means ensuring that all relevant elements act in a coordinated manner. It will understand what this means with the experience of the companies on the board of directors in the times of economic volatility. It is probably the dream of every leader to be able to direct all the knowledge and the team of the company from the field to the top, aiming for a goal together knowing exactly what happened at the moment. Now consider being able to do this all over the world.

Moreover, this is not only limited to information management. Production systems will also be taking a different level with 5G. Today, “traditional” production, which is continued by investing in heavy machinery through annual production plans, from tailor benches to presses in automobile factories, will be tested by robots and flexible production models. Today, the systems where production bands are replaced by mobile robots are used in the testing phase. While the design of the product to be produced is transferred to this facility over 5G, the order in which the robots will be sorted can be managed instantly over 5G. This means that both scooters and T-shirts can be produced in the same production facility. You can also produce cars because new generation autonomous vehicles use carbon fiber and adhesives. Not much different than weaving a T-shirt. Moreover, after producing them, you can send them anywhere via 5G.

Of course, if you don’t get afraid and burn its towers.