Shannon Mattern: Data fantasies and operational facts: 5G’s infrastructural epistemologies
Date: 31 May 2019, 6pm, Keynes Library Free, but booking is advised. Book here. The “5G Revolution” promises to deliver lightning-speed connections, immersive entertainment, seamlessly connected sentient things and city systems, high-precision geolocation, and “last mile” coverage for those who’ve historically been marginalized. Yet the realization of such a datafied dreamworld, where everyone and everything is networked, depends …
