Misleading LiFi as ‘Inactivated Vaccine’ for ‘Quantum Internet’ | Science Communication in Thai Chapter ExCom Meeting 2023 | IEEE GCN Oct 2024
Digested from [ IEEE GCN - October 2024 issue ] -- ... IEEE ComSoc Thailand organized various “science communication” activities throughout the year in order to update technological advancement and to also prevent people from fraud and fake technology. Those were done via blogs & videos and onsite talks. For the first side of the same coin, progress on global telecommunications & quantum information technology was publicized with news of the year, science and technology digests, and many other special reports.
Another side is based on a crazed technology such as LiFi — Light Fidelity or high-speed mobile communications roaming with light under LED hotspots. Former activities for prevention members from its misleading had been reported to IEEE GCN; http://bit.ly/31z0GmT (2017), http://bit.ly/34Ea36L (2018), and http://shorturl.at/lqFZ2 (2022). Throughout the 2023 year, ComSoc Thailand updated LiFi’s “digital footprint” to the public, and gave a short talk at the inauguration meeting (November 30) for the new executive committees of the IEEE Thailand section (2024—2025).
Briefly, this kind of misleading story was mutated from
"Visible light communications (VLC)" through
“Light Fidelity — LiFi” (2011), to
“LightBased — Wireless Communications” (2022), and then renamed once again to
“Light Antenna” (2023)
Doubtfully among those rhetorics of the past thirteen years, IEEE promoted LiFi officially as well. It was not only with an info-graphic captioned “a high-speed, bi-directional, wireless light-based communications system that is similar to Wi-Fi but faster & download 18 full-length movies in one second (Feb 16, 2017)”, but also announced a free LiFi training course as a benefit of becoming IEEE ComSoc’s member 2024 !
However, there was a positive discussion with an impressive comment from an audience:
A real benefit of LiFi, we can illustrate it as an ‘inactivated vaccine’ to anti any future fake tech infections.
Eventually, we all then hope that a strong immunity boosted by that LiFi vaccine could protect our communications engineering society toward the future, where a high hype on “quantum internet” has been playing a very similar role.
โดยสาขาไฟฟ้าสื่อสาร (IEEE ComSoc Thailand chapter)
สมาคมสถาบันวิศวกรไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์แห่งประเทศไทย (IEEE Thailand Section)
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