Americans go to the polls to elect a new President in four weeks. It’s imperative that no matter who wins the election, that person understands the coming technology changes.
So says Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin. In an OpEd for Time, he writes 5G wireless technology, which should be rolling out during the next President’s term, has the most potential. “For the last 30 years, the technology industry mostly focused on connecting people to other people. With 5G, it will begin connecting people to devices, and devices to other devices,” writes Bajarin.
In fact, IoT capability will change lives as much as the internet has, he predicts. Cisco pegs IoT as potentially becoming a $14 trillion market over the next 10 years.
Other important tech is coming as well. Autonomous cars will hit the roads within the next 10 years, he believes. They’ll use IoT to communicate with each other and to public infrastructure. Digital security will become an even more vital issue, as businesses and individuals will be increasingly targeted by hackers, according to the tech expert.
The coming tech tsunami is why the next President has to have a grasp on the future and choose the next FCC Chairman or Chairwoman with care. The agency has been moving to advance broadband, “making possible exciting new experiments with wireless technology and beyond.”
Actually, all government agencies will be facing tech changes in some form, writes Bajarin. An example is the Supreme Court taking up the Apple-Samsung patent dispute this week.
Should GOP nominee Donald Trump win the election, Ajit Pai, as the senior Republican commissioner, would be on the list to ascend to the chairman’s role. If Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton becomes the next President, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn would most certainly be on the list of potential chairs. Clyburn received bipartisan praise when she was Acting Chair during the transition from former agency chair Julius Genachowski and current FCC Chair Tom Wheeler.
October 12, 2016
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