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[Music] what is one of the biggest concerns people have about modern technology privacy right because our phones know everything about us what music we listen to how much sleep we get what our face looks like when we're pooping but now apple is going to give you a little more control over how widely that information is shared you know how it goes you search for something online then see an ad on facebook or instagram for that exact item well apple is making it harder for apps to track your online activity when you're using apps on your iphone you may start to see this apple users must now give permission for apps to track your online activity data before you can only opt out it's about time jenny gephart is with the privacy non-profit the electronic frontier foundation switching from opt-out to opt-in is huge that is what's going to really make a lot more users opt out of this tracking feature that wasn't built for users it was built for advertisers that's right people with the new ios updates you have to opt in to being tracked online instead of having to opt out and i know it might seem like a small change but this is a huge deal because people are lazy as [ __ ] like think about it if apple said that they were going to put all your nudes online unless you opted out you'd probably be like what no ways where's that opt-out option ah settings general uh well you know what i'm proud of my third nipple let's just do this i don't care anymore i got things to do and people don't understand how much information facebook is actually getting from your other apps like you think it's a small thing you know how you always like to your friends oh i was talking about something and then it popped up is my phone listening to me no it's the apps like if you're in atlanta and you check the weather in vermont it won't wait for you to search for a winter coat before it starts showing you ads for one and if you've been ordering pizza every night on grubhub well then the ads will show you a coat that's two sizes up because it knows so this new privacy feature is good news for iphone users but it turns out it's very bad news for one of apple's biggest rivals facebook in fact it's so bad for them that they've started throwing up pop-ups begging everyone to let them keep tracking us and warning us that if we don't facebook might stop being free of charge and i'm not gonna lie to people that seems like an empty threat to me because who would pay to be on facebook with the type of people willing to pay to be on facebook i mean like that's like if a crack house had a cover charge i actually wouldn't mind if facebook started charging people because i think if they did maybe people would actually think for a second before they posted the government puts fluoride in the water to brainwash us post two dollars i'll keep it to myself now the reason facebook needs to track its users is so that it can charge big bucks to advertisers who want to target very specific audiences but mark zuckerberg knows that people don't care if he can't afford to give his hovercraft a lamborghini for its birthday so instead he's asking you to think about the poor companies that'll suffer if he can't track you facebook said apple's move will harm their small business advertisers it's going to kill us it's going to kill us but for monique wilson debriano who was featured in a facebook campaign and owns charleston gourmet burger the change has already affected sales and she's had to cut costs it's not about you know small businesses you know wanting to take away anyone's privacy all we want to do is really to service our customers better so if someone loves hamburgers and they're looking for something that is just awesome you know to make your hamburgers taste better i would like to show my ad to you and this update takes that away from small businesses like mine okay now this is interesting i mean i don't like getting tracked but it is true that it does help some small businesses target their ads you know and the truth is in life bad things can't have good side effects you know it's like how serial killers are bad we all agree that they're bad but you do get a lot of really interesting podcasts out of them yeah no so i can't see what facebook is trying to argue here they're saying do you really want to hurt small businesses before amazon has a chance to bankrupt them and honestly i wouldn't mind targeted ads that much but the thing is it's how it is how facebook tracks all of us that i don't like like it would be one thing if facebook asked me hey trevor do you like hamburgers ah we're gonna show you stuff about food but what facebook actually does is basically just send some guy named gary to just stalk my entire life hey trevor i heard you like hamburgers what how did you know that he i read an email you sent to your girlfriend so maybe you're still not swayed by the effect of this change on small businesses and that's why facebook is also warning of the bleak future that awaits all of us if they can't track our every movement anymore facebook's pushing back it relies on that data to target consumers with relevant ads so if people do opt out here's what facebook says could happen say a young man is looking for a new pair of sneakers on his phone facebook claims that with apple's new rules it won't be able to use his search history and information about what other apps he uses to show him ads for things he wants to buy so on facebook or instagram he could end up seeing ads for women's clothing or furniture really this is a real argument come on man get the [ __ ] out of here guys we've lived our entire lives watching untargeted ads right tv ads newspaper ads billboards none of those were targeted and we were fine right now all of a sudden they're making it seem like we can't live without them like we're gonna be like oh no oh no i'll have to watch untargeted ads but how will i know if a product isn't for me what if i buy tampons because i didn't know that i don't have a period what if i buy dog food but i don't have a dog am i a dog and my dog won tampon i don't know we can handle untargeted ads in fact sometimes untargeted ads introduce you to things that you never knew you needed yeah like a shower seat i didn't think about that before i came to america and then now that i'm here i realize just because i'm not 80 doesn't mean i can't get clean and comfortable and you know on top of all that facebook makes it seem they make it seem like all they use that data for is to sell us the products that we want but don't forget that the reason you often only see posts that make you mad as hell is because of all the time facebook is tracking you and they use that targeting to piss you off it's not a coincidence that facebook is always telling you that joe biden is going to make the bible spanish only or that trump stole all the mailboxes to give to kim jong-un it's because they know how to keep you engaged for as long as possible and they know this by tracking you and again i'm not pro apple here right but apple didn't build their entire business model on stalking you facebook did and if moving society away from tracking people means that gary has to find a new job then you know what so be it but then trev who will recommend creams for your toenail fungus get the [ __ ] out of here gary [Music] unfortunately due to the pandemic a lot of people are doing worse than ever because it turns out that the technology keeping us connected is also making us feel like [ __ ] with the stress of the pandemic body image issues have been on the rise 43 percent of women 26 percent of men said covet 19 negatively affected how attractive they felt the countless hours spent on zoom or video calls is causing more and more americans to be insecure about their appearance video conferencing presents a constant unedited unfiltered look at ourselves that can be unsettling and those front-facing cameras we're all using aren't doing us any favors things like the nose could actually appear larger and wider and the eyes could appear smaller not only is a person confronting their own reflection with much greater intensity and frequency than they ever had before but they were staring at a distorted reflection this is all part of an alarming new trend coined zoom dysmorphia yes zoom dysmorphia it's when you realize that it's not just everyone else who looks terrible on zoom and that's really not cool you know zoom shouldn't make you feel bad about your looks it should make you feel bad about your dirty ass living room but you have to remember people this is a new phenomenon that we're dealing with humans didn't evolve to see their own faces all the time that's not normal i mean except for twins i guess they don't count they're freaks it's like another one of you what like think about it for most of human history if you wanted to know what you looked like you had to get your friend to smash up some blueberry and rub it on a cave wall you look like this damn do i really hold a spear like that now the good news is that it's likely we'll all be using zoom a lot less in the near future but unfortunately there's another technology that also makes us feel bad about ourselves and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon i'm talking about photo filters yes they've helped mankind realize its dream of puking rainbows but some of the most popular filters just help you look more attractive which may sound harmless but it could be anything but cutting edge apps and social media filters are allowing ordinary people to enhance their online photos to impossible perfection in some cases it's sparking a concerning phenomena with apps like facetune you have the power to completely transform yourself bigger eyes skinnier nose and jawline smaller butt or flatter belly wider teeth smoother skin you can do it right on your phone when i take a selfie i always use filters i wish i could look like my filtered self in real life this obsession with personal appearance that selfie culture encourages may have darker implications for mental health a study in the journal of the american medical association says filtered pictures can take a toll on self-esteem body image and even lead to body dysmorphic disorder i do feel like we're losing touch with what reality looks like we're already getting there to the point where we're expecting people to look as unhuman as possible yeah photo editing filters set unrealistic expectations for beauty the same way fruit ninja sets up unrealistic expectations of how easy it is to slice floating fruit and once you have this filtered version of yourself in your head you become dissatisfied with what you really look like so in essence we're basically catfishing ourselves but if these editing apps can turn adults into quivering blobs of insecurity just imagine what they're doing to kids psychologists warn these photo filters can be particularly troubling for teens and young people who are still developing their sense of self eighty percent of girls in one survey say they compare the way they look to other people on social media on instagram like i follow people like kendall jenner and kylie jenner and they all have this like time measure like body image that everyone is expecting from this generation young girls on social media have a negative body perception with one in seven girls reporting being unhappy with the way they look at the end of elementary school and that number almost doubling to nearly one in three by age fourteen eighty percent of young girls are using photo retouching apps to change the way they look before posting pictures and those with high scores for manipulating their photos were associated with high scores for body related and eating concerns any of you ever question your body because of what you see on social media shame man this is a vicious cycle for teenagers social media makes them unhappy with how they look so then they use filters which perpetuate the unrealistic expectations for themselves and others plus they're teenagers so they're doing all of this while they're driving which puts everyone at risk and all the insecurity this creates is harmful for teenagers because i know it's hard to tune all of this out but teens shouldn't be obsessing over this stuff like i honestly wish i could sit all teenagers down and say hey don't worry about how you look the planet's going to die out before you're 30. it doesn't matter now it's bad enough when people wish they had the perfect instagram look in real life what's worse is when they actually try to make it happen the more people look at doctored up images the more likely they are to actually start seeking out cosmetic procedures at younger ages these cosmetic procedures are becoming so popular with teens plastic surgeons have coined a new syndrome for it snapchat dysmorphia and the number of kids getting nip tucks may astound you in 2017 nearly 230 000 teens had cosmetic procedures kids as young as 13 are getting them doctors seeing an influx of people of all ages turning to plastic surgery to look more like their filter 62 percent of plastic surgeons reported their patients wanted to go under the knife because of dissatisfaction with their social media profile 57 said their patients wanted to look better in selfies absolutely it's becoming more and more common where people will show me images on their instagram or even something that posted on facebook and go this is really how i want to look just last week i had a patient come in and ask me for more of an anime eye and she couldn't figure out why it's not possible okay man this is really disturbing 13 year olds in particular should not be getting plastic surgery i mean when you're 13 your physical appearance is already naturally changing that's what our faces are doing it's like long-term plastic surgery i mean this is what i looked like when i was 13. you got to let that [ __ ] play out honestly though i don't blame the teenagers i blame the parents and the plastic surgeons i mean how are you gonna let them do this to themselves they can't even buy cigarettes but you're gonna let them buy a new face clearly this is getting out of hand which is why there's now a movement not just against filters but all the ways that people have been distorting reality on social media many influencers have started speaking up on this issue admitting that they've presented altered images in the past and are opening up the conversation some are even posting raw totally unedited photos of themselves and breaking down how people on your instagram feed may be manipulating their angles and lighting to get that quote-unquote perfect selfie there are many celebrities exposing the dangers of digital distortion they are posting images of themselves unedited unfiltered online and this is a great example to young girls pop star lizzo made a big splash when she posted a selfie in the nude and unretouched there's there's no shame anymore and i just kind of post myself it's like you take me as i am you don't have to love me british mp luke evans has proposed the digitally altered body image bill which would require advertisers and publishers to display a logo whenever a person's face or body has been digitally enhanced okay first of all i love the idea of putting disclaimers on photos of people who have been digitally altered i love it and honestly i don't think we should stop there we need to do this with everything that's been digitally out like food ads those are the worst every fast food burger looks great on tv but then when i order it it looks like it fell asleep in a hot tub but i'm glad that we're finally learning the truth about what celebrities look like you know personally i'm waiting for spongebob to join this movement i mean no way that guy is that square naturally have you seen that it's like it's not even maybe he's not real don't know how we have a tv show now i'm not naive enough to think that society is going to stop creating unrealistic beauty standards anytime soon all right but what i do hope is that we can better educate our kids and ourselves that our own natural bodies are beautiful i mean except for that flap of old people's skin we have on our elbows like that [ __ ] is gross i don't care who you are it looks like a mid-arm ball sack but everything else is beautiful [Music] bill gates he's rich he's brilliant and apparently he's out of his mind this is a container of human feces why is one of the richest man in the world carrying a jaw of his own [ __ ] i went to seattle to find out what's wrong with bill gates mr gates it's a huge honor to meet you just a quick question what the [ __ ] is wrong with you mean are you okay yeah i'm great love what i'm doing okay so why are you carrying around your own poop in a jar well i did uh have a beaker of human feces when i was explaining why we need a a reinvented toilet you don't need to reinvent a toilet we [ __ ] in it then we push a button then the [ __ ] disappears it's perfect well toilets are something we take for granted but billions of people don't have them even in these growing cities and poor countries they can't afford to build sewers and that causes diseases and so we have to come up with a very different way of taking care of that waste and because so much of the world lacks a sanitary place to poo bill launched the reinvent the toilet challenge it funds scientists to redesign toilets that don't need a sewer system we put 700 million into this uh to show that it can be done wait sorry hang on you put several hundred million dollars into toilets giving it away you bet oh my god is bill gates literally flushing his fortune down the toilet to find out i flew all the way to university of south florida where professor daniel yay and his team are using gates funding to make some sort of magic poop box so what we have here essentially is a miniature version of the wastewater treatment plant and we can put this anywhere in the world in the bioreactor we have microorganisms they eat the poop and turn into clean water okay why do the microbes eat the poop the microbes eat the poop because that's what they do did you ask them if they want to do that well yeah why don't you give them a muffin or something maybe they're like a muffin okay i'll make a note of that but um when you show them the poop they love it despite his crazy talk there's just something about this guy i don't know what it is but i trust him so i decided to give his machine a try so normally we would have a block of toilets all right and then the waste from the toilets will come here it'll go into the machine and then using solar power we can turn the poopy water into clean water so you stand by this yeah or i'll prove it okay did it work yeah well how many times did it not work and you end up drinking your own [ __ ] well it's worked so well that we're actually working with nasa astronauts have to poop and we can turn that poop into clean water and nutrients and even energy wait do you say energy yeah the microbes in the bioreactor make methane that's the same stuff that's in natural gas you can burn it bill gates you sneaky bastard you just found a filthy little back door into the most profitable industry in the world energy you didn't say anything about energy yeah it's one way to make it cheap to process the sewage is to sell these outputs you should open with that next time don't open with the saving the world kids and diseases open with yo we're making toilets that can convert [ __ ] into energy we need to make these toilets as expensive as possible because based on my research everyone poops i mean everybody well unless we make them super cheap they're not going to get out to the poorest who need them the most look i know you've made your money some of us here are still trying to win this game well you have an idea let us know i've got nothing but ideas for this okay so this is an ipad great device i love using it hey hey yeah so what's the worst seat on the plane next to the toilet but what if every seat was a toilet poop powered planes to keep the plane in motion we have to keep [ __ ] high pressure i know but it gives the airlines incentive to feed us i'm not sure the numbers work how about this it's a toilet that you [ __ ] in and it powers a cannon that shoots the [ __ ] out to my neighbor's house why are you laughing that's not legal listen man i'm up here just trying to come up with ideas here to save the world okay what are you doing um that's what i'm doing no that's what i'm doing i'm here giving you ideas all you're doing is [ __ ] on them well i don't think those ideas are are ready yet but we do have a lot of ideas that are in the field uh being tested and durbin it's trying to cover the 30 percent of their residents that don't have uh great sewage processing we are going to completely change the future everybody's going to have a great toilet well here's to everyone having a great toilet cheers not bad now guess where that came from you just drank my [ __ ] it taste that's a very successful process there it tasted like normal water good job thank you bill there's more where that came from ransomware it sounds like a fashion line for casual yet elegant kidnappers but it's actually a big problem that's only getting worse ransomware is a cyber attack in which hackers threatened to shut down networks or publish private information unless paid a ransom department of homeland security estimates a 300 percent increase in such attacks in the past year alone with a cost of more than 350 million dollars in ransoms ransomware encrypts a computer network's data to hold it hostage and then will only give the digital decryption key to unlock it for a price the average payment climbed from a few thousand dollars in 2018 to more than two hundred thirty thousand dollars desperate to recover their data some businesses have paid as much as 935 thousand dollars in ransom they demand a ransom usually in bitcoin a largely untraceable digital currency ransomware has become such a frequent occurrence 40 of companies in the uk with over 250 employees are now stockpiling bitcoin in the event of an attack oh man this is terrible these hackers aren't just forcing people to pay money they're forcing them to learn about bitcoin well that's the real crime but at the same time it makes sense you know if your company gets hacked then you're prepared and if you don't get hacked you can always give bitcoin to your employees as christmas gifts happy holidays everyone go buy a hitman off the dark web yay but yes much like matcha flavoring ransomware attacks went from something you've never really heard of to being basically everywhere which makes sense because as the world gets more online there are more and more targets to choose from and it's not helping that it's also really cheap and easy to pull these scams off ransomware incident usually starts innocently enough maybe an interesting special promotion offer or an email disguised as coming from your boss but once you click on the link or download the file it can kick off a debilitating attack the barriers to entry to create ransomware really low hackers advertise do-it-yourself ransomware kits on the dark web it's an incredibly detailed guide that enables you to customize every aspect of the ransomware without ever really having to write any code yourself today almost anyone can get their hands on ransomware technology ransomware can be purchased on the deep web for as little as 39 okay whoa that that's crazy to me you can buy ransomware for just 39 that's like nothing i mean to be fair though that's probably the version that has ads right like you can shut down america's energy infrastructure but every 10 minutes you have to watch that stupid limu emu commercial what the hell is that i'm not gonna buy insurance from an emu i'm gonna buy it from a gecko sophisticated like that and by the way am i the only one who feels like it kind of ruins the drama of a ransomware attack when you find out that all these guys are doing is basically just tricking someone inside the company into giving them access because like when you think of hacking what do you think of you think of the computer equivalent of tom cruise breaking into a building with diamond cutters and coming down from the ceiling on wires and dodging the lasers you know when in reality it's more like tom cruise just yelling at a security guard hey i'm here to fix the toilet and then the guard just waves them in and the reason this works so well is because people will click on anything i mean have you seen the links at the bottom of news articles you'll never believe what the house from malcolm in the middle looks like today i mean i've never even seen that show but i've read that article eight times and one of the most messed up things about these crimes is who tends to be the victims it's not usually rich corporations because they can afford the latest cyber security and the best i.t guys you know talking about the guy with the shortest short sleeve button downs you know the ones that barely make it past the shoulders so because these companies are harder to strike instead the hackers squeeze ransom out of the places that can already least afford it for years ransomware attacks have targeted retailers hospitals police departments utilities state and local governments their data held hostage until they pay up cash strap municipalities are uniquely vulnerable to this kind of ransomware attack because they're using older systems they don't keep them updated and they don't have the resources to be able to respond today 26 percent of cities and counties say they fend off an attack on their networks every hour cyber crooks know governments and hospitals are likely to pay because they can't afford not to there was nothing that we could do to unlock those files the best option for us even though it was the last and worst option for us was to pay the ransom shame man i can't believe hackers are stooping so low that they're demanding ransom from police departments it's disgusting they need that money for their brutality settlements you monsters and of course our hospital has no other choice but to pay i mean if hackers shut down your operating room in the middle of a surgery what are you going to do send the patient home with only one of their butt implants put in no the cheeks would be uneven so hackers are using ransomware to [ __ ] hospitals police departments utility companies and local governments and as a society it's going to be chaos if all of those things crash i mean except for the hospitals i don't need those when it's my time it's my time and i'm ready b unless it's my appendix then i need a hospital but i mean for like major [ __ ] you know i mean so because it's so major you'd think that the federal government would step in and make sure that this doesn't happen the problem is there's actually not much the federal government can do this chaos left in the wake of colonial pipelines ransomware attack has heightened concerns about america's cyber security the energy grid and water supply have almost no federally mandated cyber security protections the federal government depends on private companies improving their cyber hygiene to avoid ransomware attacks 85 percent of american critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector the government has very little visibility on whether these private corporations have good cyber security or bad cyber security one of the issues is with private companies they are not required to disclose cyber attacks that really hinders the ability for law enforcement and the government to make an informed decision and develop the best policy options that they have to try and counter this attack no country is more connected technologically than the us and that makes you more vulnerable to this kind of stuff i mean really the only solution is turn the switch off right i mean disconnect yourself from the internet yeah disconnecting from the internet doesn't sound so hard i mean all you have to do is subscribe to spectrum but for real though i get that it's difficult for the government to regulate the internal security of private companies but the solution to ransomware cannot be to put the entire country into airplane mode i mean no one even does that on airplanes unfortunately as of right now there's not another solution that seems workable so until there is americans might need to stop panic buying gasoline and start panic buying bitcoin and if you don't know now you know [Music] i'm here in wisconsin land of beer cheese and real life dystopian technology that's going to control your every move our wisconsin-based company three square market announced its plans to install rice-sized microchips in its employees that's right this company is shoving microchips into their employees and this movement is spreading worldwide in sweden thousands already have microchip implants that they use in their daily lives next thing you know we'll all be chipped i'm gonna pull a harriet tubman to free these white people wait you know what i mean i had to put it into this evil technology before it dominates us all the removal wasn't going to be pretty but luckily i spent a summer working as an unlicensed proctologist bend over i'm here to stop your chip god what are you talking about the chip the chip that they put in you i'm here to take it out i volunteered you volunteered yeah what hey who else volunteered to get this ship emu black dude come on man so i sat face to face with the man responsible for running a company of chipped employees so where exactly is this chip implanted it's right there that's not where i thought y'all put it where'd you think i'd put it that's not important so how did you convince your employees to let you brainwash them into getting chips in their hands because they saw that we could do something that truly could just change the world i literally can with the swipe of the hand do anything you can start your car with it you can make payments unlock doors i've been able to unlock doors my whole life i just go like this it's easier don't you think each other helping people become more lazy we already swipe everything i swipe on my phone and meet these menses i already paid with my phone why do i need a chip in my hand i'm never gonna forget my hand it's always there hands are really easy to lose we've all been near a wood chipper too close to an industrial fan let's put it this way what if i could save your life let's say you have a heart issue let's say you have diabetes what about dementia what about a senior citizen to give them the peace of mind that at all times we know where they are that we can look at all their bodies that's a life alert patrick we already did this the lady's following us you can't get up push the button somebody come get me but if that person's passed out they're not able to push that button wow that may have been an excellent point i wasn't fully convinced it's the only chip i want my body patrick so good just wait till you see what it can do what can it do you can buy snacks with a scan of your hand holy [ __ ] it works now i know this chip initially scared the hell out of me seeing it in action it's a game changer how do i get me one of these so basically we'll just clean it with this prep stick and then what i'll do is when i'm ready i'll push it in insert the chip itself pull it out and i'll put the cap back on and we are all done give me one give me one i was entering a new life where anything was possible like swiping right and left on men in real life [Music] having doors open for me this was the future but according to tech journalist ian sure i made a big mistake there's a lot of stuff we need to think about where this is going and what could happen as a result of it let me tell you how my life has changed so i've gotten this chip i can get snacks with the wave of hand i can start a car as soon as i buy a car all of this is great you get on board for being a hater playboy and that may be the case but whenever you put a foreign object into your body it can be dangerous not all objects look man think about how much time i'm saving in 20 years i probably saved five to eight minutes my point is that you have to actually take it out if you want to take it out i never thought about removing it would this be like a 127 hour situation i mean that's what you get for hiking by yourself james franco that's not the point what are like the worst worst case scenarios well people could go to extreme lengths to get your information and you could get charged for stuff that you didn't intend to buy this is hackable people could steal your information you may not even know when it's being accessed or for what people will be able to track you people are crazy someone could cut your hand off to use your chip because it's implanted you can't get away from it wait oh my god i mean this is the worst episode of black mirror ever and i saw the one with the pig i mean stealing other people's ships you got to lose your hand and your car or worst of all you think you're just dancing but you're buying items you put in your shopping cart when you were drunk maybe this will be the norm in the future and everyone will have a chipped hand but right now i'm not ready to be trapped or hacked oh i have to get rid of this thing give me strength jesus oh my gosh my hair's so bad [Music] [Applause] [Music] so what exactly is the big deal about 5g because you might think it's just 4g but a little bit faster but it's actually a lot faster so fast in fact that it could change the world the new world of 5g technology promises to transform our lives connecting millions of devices and enabling everything from driverless cars to smart homes up to 20 times faster than the 4g most of us use now 5g's lightning fast technology will accelerate and interconnect everything to download a two-hour film on 3g would take about 26 hours on 4g you'd be waiting 6 minutes and on 5g you'll be ready to watch your film in just over three and a half seconds damn you could download an entire movie in three seconds that's gonna be fast i mean we'll still spend 45 minutes trying to decide which movie to download but once we've decided we'll need to go to bed because we're tired but tomorrow three seconds my friends and 5g isn't just about download speeds it's a game changer for everything like with 5g you can have cities where everything communicates like doctors can perform surgeries from the other side of the world can you imagine a world where your videos never buffer right your calls never drop that would be amazing except i guess now you could never fake a call dropping with 5g yeah because that excuse is gone you'll be like ah i'm losing i'm losing i'm look you're breaking up be like you're not breaking up we got 5g be like yeah yeah you're right carry on grandma yes my grandma samuel l jackson so so look there's no denying the technology is great but why do china and the u.s care so much about who makes it well it's the same reason they care about anything the benjamins baby when the u.s won the 4g race earlier this decade it provided a nearly 100 billion dollar boost to gross domestic product and the stakes of the 5g race are even higher if the u.s wins it would create an estimated three million jobs and add approximately 500 billion dollars to gdp that's right if america wins the 5g race that could bring millions of jobs and 500 billion dollars to the country's gdp 500 billion dollars you know how hard it is to get 500 billion dollars like you'd have to marry and divorce jeff bezos five times and i mean after the fourth time he'd probably catch on he'd be like i think you don't love me what me jeff and the fight about 5g isn't just about money and downloading avengers like that no it's also about power because if you control 5g you have access to everything people are doing online which is everything and right now the best 5g technology is made by a chinese company called huawei and because the chinese company is chinese many governments don't trust how secure it's going to be huawei may be best known to most people for making phones but it's also a leading player in building the infrastructure for all our communications critics fear that allowing it to build 5g could enable the chinese state to spy on or even switch off the flow of data we will all depend on imagine that if huawei becomes the leading 5g provider in the world then china can spy on everyone which is terrible because that's what america wants to do yeah and i know you're judging well if america wants to do it then how do they judge it's not that's not the point all right you want to do it first it's like when you cut someone off in traffic and then someone else cuts in front of you like hey [ __ ] that was my move but those are the stakes job money and power and i'm not gonna try and bore you with all the technical details but while america is developing its own 5g china's 5g is so far ahead like they're basically gonna set the trends it's like how back in the day there used to be a fight between dvd and laserdisc yeah and if you're wondering what the hell is laserdisc exactly yeah that's america's 5g so this is a race many people already saying america has lost luckily and i can't believe i'm saying this america is lucky that you have a maniac on your team who's willing to play dirty president trump has signed an executive order banning u.s companies from using telecom equipment deemed to be a national security threat and that's a direct shot at china and it's tech giant huawei as the u.s clampdown on the company causes a major domino effect the uk's biggest mobile network pulling far away from its 5g launch while three of japan's mobile operators have stopped taking orders or delayed the summer release of a new huawei phone donald j mother effing trump this guy could see america wasn't going to win so he just got a crowbar and pulled a tonya harding on china's 5g just went in straight there yeah the man might not know what 5g is but he does know how to mess up other people's [ __ ] just end there bam and i'm going to be honest with you i don't actually blame donald trump because i don't know how else america can win this race because even if america does manage to [ __ ] huawei and china it's not like america will suddenly have great 5g right you won't just have 5g overnight unless america just pretends that it does att is putting a fake 5g logo on iphones and ipads now the company confirming to pc magazine that the new icon is going to show up when users download apple's latest beta version of ios 12.2 but it's not really 5g att just changed the name for its 4g lte advanced network 2 5g e the e stands for evolution okay guys that that's really sad atm t's just gonna lie and put another stick like it's like you have a smart car and then you just tape lamborghini on the side of it let's check it out man driving a lambo now 0-60 in four minutes flat but seeing as it's a race that might be lost atn t might be on to something here because this is considered the new space race so maybe america can win this race the same way it won the last one just fake it baby [Music] you

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Length: 42min 5sec (2525 seconds)

Published: Mon May 24 2021