As 5G is deployed first in the world's leading cities, we’ll see a staggering leap in the connectedness of gadgets, sensors, processors, street lights, doors, manufacturing systems, mail and package delivery, medical devices, cars and scooters -- everything will be connected in an internet of things tapestry.

There will be enormous benefits to rural communities, particularly in agriculture where new technologies in long wave communications will be able to replicate parts of the massive data transmission in urban systems. 

COVID-19  will change us -- create new priorities in our lives, change how frequently and deeply we connect with friends, family and associates; it will change how we see each other and will create opportunities to fix some of yesterday's wrongs. But big vision is needed to escape the gravitational drag of dysfunction we see today in the country. Technology can be harnessed to generate the right kinds of upheaval, to help create community, and fix problems where there were previous divides.