SoLiXG:Acceleration
Speed/acceleration
The telecommunication Gs, 4G, 5G and the forthcoming 6G have all been developed or are being developed to accelerate the pace of data transferral. By speeding up data transferals, data mining and extraction can increase its pace too. Acceleration is an inherent promise of logistical capitalism. Arbitrage and trade extracts value from uneven rhythms of speculation. Acceleration itself becomes a commodity. In a more mundane domain of life, promises of speedy data transferal and low latency, produce an image of a non-political technological vision, in which extended reality (AR+VR+MR) will erase the distinction between the digital and the non-digital, offering a world where we will be able to meet, touch and feel, and socialize without moving, where digital twinning and sensing will provide us total reach and control, but that also will open up new inequalities and uneven speed of access to things and mobility.
Anna: In a project meeting, it was suggested that we remove the 'double keywords' like Speed/acceleration. After reading this entry I would go with Acceleration. There are a lot of other keywords, which would need an explanation to make it more understandable, but might be too far away for the project.