Technology has a tendency to invite over-investment. If you can see the future, you want to own it. This isn’t just a modern phenomenon. Building out America’s railroads consumed enormous amounts of capital from American, British, and other investors.

These are just a smattering of the potential ways in which 5G might transform life and work in a future pandemic or disaster. It’s also likely that the largest impacts will come from technologies we haven’t even thought of yet. This fact is why it is so essential that we invest in building out 5G networks and funding innovation on top of them.