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Free WiFi
Free WiFi used to be a big deal. It’s not anymore… unless you’re on the ocean, high up on a mountain, or in an airplane. In ten years, WiFi might be a thing of the past. There’s an explosion of satellite companies (pardon the pun) launching earth-covering Internet (such as Amazon’s Project Kuiper).
There will be no where to escape. People will setup spelunking adventures just to get away from connectivity. Maybe there will be spas with Faraday cages to get away from messaging apps.
The other issue is that WiFi will seem… slow. 5G or 6G will allow huge amounts throughout with low latency, having anything running anywhere but the edge will seem outdated. With this, we might even be paid to have the infrastructure so that we can buy the services running on it.
