If successful, 5G will radically transform societies & economies over the next 10-20 years ushering a new era of Digital Humans & Digital Enterprises. 5G must enhance humans & empower new generations to navigate new worlds

1. 5G: EMPOWERING
NEXT-GENERATION WORKFORCES
Peter Clemons,
Founder, Quixoticity
Chief Designer, Quixoticity Index
linkedin.com/in/peter-clemons-041845/
@PeterClemons11

2. “The world of the happy man
is a different one from that of
the unhappy man.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

3. Today’s Main Topics
• Quixoticity – Global Critical Communications Index
• Global trends
• The road to 2030
• The new 5G Era
• New forms of intelligence
• The Internet of Skills
• The Digital Enterprise & the Digital Human
• 5G as an opportunity, not a threat
• Steps to be taken to succeed in the 5G Era

4. Peter Clemons
Founder, Quixoticity
• First degree in languages, literature & sociology
• Lived, worked & studied in Latin America (1985-94)
• MSc. Economics & Finance, University of Bristol, 1996
• First critical communications report published in 1996
• Member of Global TETRA Association (now TCCA) since 2001
• Director of Communications, Spain, Teltronic S.A.U. 2008-12
• Director, Board Member, TCCA. 2010-12
• Founded Quixoticity in early 2012 to focus on next generation critical
communications leading to 5G
• First version of Quixoticity Index published in November 2017
• Critical communications projects carried out in 40+ countries, including
Europe, Americas, Asia-Pacific & Middle East
• Quixoticity is a full member of global standards organisations: ETSI &
3GPP (MCPTT, 5G critical communications requirements)

5. Quixoticity Index
November 2018:
More in-depth study of 8 markets & 8 global players:
Australia Airbus D&S SLC
Finland Ericsson
France Harris Corp
Germany Huawei
(South) Korea Hytera
UAE Motorola Solutions
United Kingdom Nokia
United States Samsung
Life in 2030 – The choice is ours?

6. Just 2 global megatrends (there are many more!):
National security & the rise of Asia/Middle East
• National security • Rise of Asia/Middle East
• The dangers of a global, digital world
• Safe cities
• Cybersecurity
• Critical national infrastructure
• The urgent need to design a new Internet
• Digital communities
• Fake news/fake “everything”
Definitely no longer just about
China in Asia;
or Oil & Gas in Middle East

7. The road to 2030
The 4th Industrial Revolution 5G Timeline 2018 > 2030+
• 3GPP Release 15 (5G Phase 1) – Finished: Dec/2017 –
Sep/2018
• First 5G Trials – 2018
• Early 5G Deployments – Q4/2018, Q1/2019
• 3GPP Release 16 (5G Phase 2)(Industry/mission-critical
use-cases) –Finished; Q4-2019/Q1-2020
• Tokyo Olympics 2020
• Expo Dubai 2020/Smart Dubai 2021
• Qatar World Cup 2022
• Mission-critical/URLLC 5G deployments: 2021-24
• Nationwide mission-critical 5G networks (NR+eLTE):
2025-2030
World Economic Forum

8. The new 5G Era
Industries transformed by 5G Automation & orchestration
Physical
processes
Virtual/logical
processes

9. New forms of intelligence
• Social media networks
• Crowdsourcing
• Big data/analytics
• AI/ML (Artificial
intelligence/machine learning)
• (Ro)Bots
• Autonomous vehicles
• Drones
• Towards the singularity?

10. The most thought-provoking thing
in our thought-provoking time
is that we are still not thinking.”
Martin Heidegger
What is called thinking?

11. The Internet of Skills
(Humans Fight Back?!)
Above: King’s College London’s Mischa Dohler at OFC 2017

12. The Digital Future
The Digital Enterprise
• Fully automated/frictionless
• Fully secured/APIs to 3rd parties
• Service-based
• Remote working/full mobility
• Flexible
• Local+Global
• Intelligence-driven
• Driver/enabler of new economy
• Driver/enabler of new society
• Fully 5G+-enabled
The Digital Human
• Fully connected to social network(s)
• Fully engaged with “communities”
• Services, not products
• Sensors, wearables, enhanced intelligence
• End-to-end, 24/7 mobility/connectivity
• Intelligence-driven
• Driver/enabler of new economy
• Driver/enabler of new society
• Fully 5G+-enabled
• THE END OF WORK?

13. 5G as an opportunity, not a threat
• Helping societies
– New focus on UN SDGs, not GDP
– Everyone’s basic needs satisfied
– Machines replace most manual labour
– Technology seen as a force for good
– Humans can fulfil their potential
– Humans can explore new worlds
– Humans help other humans
– Money/salaries eventually replaced by
more meaningful tokens of value
• Creating new “jobs”
– Lifelong education/training for all
– All millennials will be digital natives
– Older generations transmit the wisdom from their
respective cultures
– Rather than “jobs”, we will focus on “useful,
meaningful lives”
– Your new job title only constrained by your
imagination
– Data scientists, AI experts etc. – a transitionary
phase to new Digital Human categories

14. Steps to succeed in the 5G Era
• A comprehensive 5G strategy is essential
• Involvement in global standards processes
• Radical new approach to education/healthcare/ industry/
services
• The right balance between local/national/regional/global
• The right balance between economy/society/environment
• Embrace United Nations SDGs
• Embrace change
• Empower workforces/citizens/digital natives
• Find the right human-machine balance
• Identify key strengths/differentiators
• Become a fully integrated,
open hub economy
• QUIXOTICITY is here to help you. 

15. “After the final “no”,
there comes a “yes”.
And on that “yes”,
the future world depends.”
The Well-Dressed Man with a Beard
Wallace Stevens