5G

The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake  · 15 Jul 2019  · 409pp  · 112,055 words

devices in one square kilometer. Devices in your house or apartment, such as your TV, laptop, or nanny cam, might connect wirelessly directly to the 5G tower and, thereby, to the internet. The same thing may happen in your office building, where elevators, vending machines, surveillance cameras, printers, and copiers may all

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have to communicate instantly with nearby vehicles, sensors in the road, street signs, and traffic lights. To do all of that, the vehicles will need 5G communications, fast, unbuffered, and able to handle many devices in a small space. So, 5G is coming, fast, and so is a world of billions of

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more expensive U.S. or European vendors. Before senior levels of the U.S. government seemed to notice, Huawei was wrapping up contracts to install 5G technology around the world. Alarmed, one Trump White House staffer, a U.S. Air Force general, publicly suggested that the U.S. government should operate the

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Center, 59–60 Financial Systemic Analysis & Resilience Center (FSARC), 60 Financial Times, 94 fingerprint readers, 131 FireEye, 34, 36, 53 firewalls, 70, 87, 159, 160 5G mobile telephony, 265–69, 280 Five Guys, 21–22 Fly, Jamie, 223 Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 275–76, 278–79 France, 25, 209 Friedman, Allan

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World

by James Ashton  · 11 May 2023  · 401pp  · 113,586 words

local sports stadium that had hosted Super Bowls and Major League Soccer. More importantly, Qualcomm (a portmanteau of Quality Communications) was a key developer of 5G technology vital for use in the defence industry, among others, after proliferating the code division multiple access (CDMA) technology standard for radio communications. And it had

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber  · 3 Oct 2024  · 424pp  · 123,730 words

Clearwire, the US wireless operator with valuable mobile spectrum. Combined with Sprint’s own network, the spectrum served as a future platform for high-speed 5G technology. This would prove an indispensable bargaining chip in later merger negotiations with T-Mobile. Marcelo Claure cut costs, sharpened the brand and improved customer service

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revolution, 113–16, 117–19, 120–21; Ethernet services to business, 174; fibre optic broadband networks, 159; foreign investors in Japan, 172–4; high-speed 5G technology, 231; internet telephone calls, 165; IP-VPN leased-line networks, 174; Japanese infrastructure, 158, 159–61, 166, 178–80, 188, 193; Japan’s TV market

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

. Western officials increasingly worried about technological innovations that could upset the military balance, as well as the risks of dependency on Chinese technologies, such as 5G mobile networks in telecommunications. This was all bubbling to the surface around 2015 and 2016. Had Hillary Clinton been elected president, she too very likely would

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United States and one organized around China. These blocs have economic, technological, military, and ideological dimensions, although the dividing lines in some areas—such as 5G technology—are often fuzzy. Unlike in the Cold War, these blocs interact with each other and even overlap. Australia, for example, is a staunch ally of

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

by Geoffrey Cain  · 28 Jun 2021  · 340pp  · 90,674 words

.cnet.com/news/pentagon-reportedly-bans-sale-of-huawei-and-zte-phones-on-us-military-bases/. 13. Michael Slezak and Ariel Bogle, “Huawei Banned from 5G Mobile Infrastructure Rollout in Australia,” Australia Broadcasting Corporation, August 23, 2018, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-23/huawei-banned-from-providing

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-5g-mobile-technology-australia/10155438. 14. Tasneem Akolawala, “Huawei Says Shipped 100 Million Smartphones in 2018 Already, Aims to Cross 200 Million,” Gadgets 360, NDTV, July 19,

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://www.techradar.com/news/us-wants-to-help-ericsson-nokia-and-others-develop-5g-alternatives. 19. Reuters, “U.S. Allied Firms Testing Alternatives to Chinese 5G Technology: Esper,” February 15, 2020, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-esper-5g/u-s-allied-firms-testing-alternatives-to-chinese

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-5g-technology-esper-idUSKBN2090A3. 20. Aimee Chanthadavong, “Huawei Australia Sees 5G Ban Start to Bite as Carrier Business Down 21% for 2019,” ZDNet, May 1, 2020, https://

Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World

by Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner and Rupert Stadler  · 25 Mar 2018

with the vehicle via cable or Bluetooth. Figure 12.2 shows the growth in the performance of mobile-phone networks and the expected boost from 5G technologies. GSM, UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+, LTE and LTE Advanced are technologies used for various applications. It is estimated that transmission rates with 5G networks will increase

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, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm and many others) have formed the 5G Automotive Association, which aims to promote the standardisation of 5G technologies and accelerate their spread (see Boxes 12.1 and 12.2). Figure 12.2. Development of Mobile Communication Networks. Data transfer rate in MBit/s

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and very low electricity consumption, e.g. smart metering. In Europe, some carmakers, telecommunications companies and network operators have already jointly formulated their requirements for 5G technology, which will successively flow into the standardisation committees. The 5G standardisation started in 2016 and is to be completed by 2019. The main challenge consists

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

ahead in mobile apps and payment systems, and it even owns the highest number of patents necessary for the rollout of the new high-speed 5G mobile services that will be necessary to connect the Internet of things and create new growth opportunities for all sorts of businesses. China has also made

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as no one predicted that one of the major uses of 4G would be a new way of calling taxis, the most important uses for 5G technology are also difficult to predict before [they are] actually available,” says Dan Wang, an analyst for Gavekal Dragonomics. Go back even further, and consider how

Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration

by Kent E. Calder  · 28 Apr 2019

second-largest filer of patent applications in the world during 2016.51 Since 2009 it has placed special emphasis in its European research on advanced 5G technology, where together with Qualcomm, Nokia, and Ericsson it is one of the world leaders.52 It also collaborates closely with the Europeans in setting telecommunications

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. These could include: (a) Codification of international standards for high-quality infrastructure; (b) a coherent response to the digital dimensions of BRI, including intermodal logistics, 5G communications; and B2B e-commerce; (c) assistance to developing countries in developing analytical capabilities to objectively evaluate BRI projects; and (d) systematic research on emerging transnational

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

by Edward Fishman  · 25 Feb 2025  · 884pp  · 221,861 words

had signed ninety-one commercial 5G contracts, including forty-seven in Europe alone. Ding boasted that Huawei remained “eighteen months ahead of our competitors in 5G technology.” With the wind at its back, Huawei went on the offensive. On February 26, Guo Ping, Huawei’s rotating chairman, spoke at the Mobile World

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’ in Angry Phone Call over Huawei Decision,” The Independent, February 24, 2020, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-boris-johnson-huawei-5g-phone-call-white-house-a9355506.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT capped the amount of equipment: Arjun Kharpal, “Huawei Allowed Limited Access to UK’s

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, “Tech War: Huawei Surprises Again with Low-Key Presales of Top-of-the-Line Mate 60 Pro+ as US-Blacklisted Firm Stays Mum over ‘Breakthrough’ 5G Mobile Chip,” South China Morning Post, September 8, 2023, www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3233921/tech-war-huawei-surprises-again-low-key-presales-top

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 9 Sep 2024  · 566pp  · 169,013 words

2023 study, published in Science Advances, researchers asked humans and ChatGPT to create both accurate and deliberately misleading short texts on issues such as vaccines, 5G technology, climate change, and evolution. The texts were then presented to seven hundred humans, who were asked to evaluate their reliability. The humans were good at

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini  · 17 Oct 2022  · 328pp  · 96,678 words

Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights  · 28 Jan 2019  · 404pp  · 95,163 words

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

by Henry Sanderson  · 12 Sep 2022  · 292pp  · 87,720 words

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure  · 18 May 2020  · 459pp  · 138,689 words

Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

by Martin Ford  · 13 Sep 2021  · 288pp  · 86,995 words

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It

by Brian Dumaine  · 11 May 2020  · 411pp  · 98,128 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 Sep 2020

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson  · 26 Jun 2017  · 472pp  · 117,093 words

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down

by Tom Standage  · 27 Nov 2018  · 215pp  · 59,188 words

The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs

by Nicolas Pineault  · 6 Dec 2017

The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World

by William Drozdiak  · 27 Apr 2020  · 241pp  · 75,417 words

The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran  · 14 Jul 2021  · 326pp  · 91,532 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

by George Magnus  · 10 Sep 2018  · 371pp  · 98,534 words

Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World

by David Kerrigan  · 18 Jun 2017  · 472pp  · 80,835 words

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner

by Po Bronson  · 14 Jul 2020  · 320pp  · 95,629 words

Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

by Christopher Wylie  · 8 Oct 2019

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre  · 18 Jan 2023

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

by Jesselyn Cook  · 22 Jul 2024  · 321pp  · 95,778 words

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

by James Ball  · 19 Jul 2023  · 317pp  · 87,048 words

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne  · 9 Sep 2019  · 482pp  · 121,173 words

The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

by James Ball  · 19 Aug 2020  · 268pp  · 76,702 words

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab  · 11 Jan 2016  · 179pp  · 43,441 words

The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker  · 3 Mar 2020  · 279pp  · 90,888 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

by Lionel Barber  · 5 Nov 2020

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

by Eva Dou  · 14 Jan 2025  · 394pp  · 110,159 words

Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order

by Bruno Maçães  · 1 Feb 2019  · 281pp  · 69,107 words

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac  · 17 Sep 2024

Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside

by Dieter Helm  · 7 Mar 2019  · 348pp  · 102,438 words

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

by Temple Grandin, Ph.d.  · 11 Oct 2022

Korea--Culture Smart!

by Culture Smart!  · 15 Jun 201  · 124pp  · 37,476 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis

by Dr Dominic Pimenta  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 95,306 words

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 1 Sep 2020  · 134pp  · 41,085 words

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

by Paul Kingsnorth  · 23 Sep 2025  · 388pp  · 110,920 words

Greater: Britain After the Storm

by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis  · 19 May 2021  · 516pp  · 116,875 words

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger  · 26 Nov 2020  · 371pp  · 109,320 words

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

by Richard Horton  · 31 May 2020  · 106pp  · 33,210 words

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie  · 1 Mar 2018

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

by Patrick McGee  · 13 May 2025  · 377pp  · 138,306 words