Why do they want 5G? A Technical Breakdown What we grew up w / proliferated in public Web 1.0 is known as IPv4 - and was controlled by ARIN ( https://www.arin.net/ ) Now IPv4 worked but as the internet grew it started running out of literal internet addresses to hand out. IPv4 ~> 4,294,967,296 total https://files.catbox.moe/r2fu8r.jpeg IPv6 was standardized finally and say if you have ATT / Verizon / etc your home connections got lit up maybe two years ago w a IPv4 and at least 2 IPv6 https://files.catbox.moe/z2yokd.jpeg Why is IPv6 important? Well it makes everything in the physical world addressable - it makes it findable via internet connection. Every hair on every head - every blade of grass - all of it could be fed into AI. IPv6 ~> 42 Undecillion: https://files.catbox.moe/ndk2bc.jpeg “It would be like seeing through the eyes of God.”  ~ Sergey Brin explaining this