Technology leaders predict the new Internet will revolutionize the world

Several experts and leaders of major global technology companies such as Microsoft, Baidu, Qualcomm, Western Digital or Alibaba have predicted that 5G networks and the possibilities offered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) they will revolutionize the mobile Web and transform the world.

At the opening of the sixth edition of the World Internet Conference in the Chinese city of Wuzhen, industry leaders also warned of security risks and the privacy that new technologies imply, especially the management of big data that involves artificial intelligence.

"The digital economy will be the main driver of growth in the global economy and more advanced AI chips will shape the infrastructure of the new era," said Robin Li, president and chief executive officer. Co-founder of the Chinese giant Baidu, equivalent of Google in the Asian country. , where the products of American society They are vetoed.

According to Li, in a few years, the dependence of mobile phones will be reduced while audio devices or smart sensors will take their place. Internet searches, he said, they will be "much more accurate" and "will be everywhere", beyond devices, which can be activated with gestures or looks. In this regard, he announced that Baidu was making "an excellent investment to become a global artificial intelligence platform".

Qualcomm's president, Alex Rogers, also felt that the AI ​​and the new networks "they will transform the way people communicate"and highlighted China 's progress in the 5G, which he said will begin to operate in more than 50 cities in the Asian country by the end of the year.

For his part, the UN Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Liu Zhenmin, recalled that nearly half of the world's population still does not have internet access and warned about the risk of widen the digital divide on the planet with the introduction of new technologies.

John Hoffman, President of the GSMA, declared 5G "it will turn fiction into reality" by creating a "new era of the mobile Internet", which the economy already equals, he said, the gross domestic product of Germany. The manager compared the competition in new technologies of the big powers with the race to space and stressed that "the country at the forefront of 5G networks on the planet is currently China".

Curiously, China – where many Western websites and applications are blocked – this Internet conference has been trying to think for six years. on international cooperation and foster an open network. "Foreign companies are invited to compete in an egalitarian framework," said Huang Kunming, head of the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who called for promoting "solidarity and trust."

In the edition of two years ago, the top leaders of US companies like Google or Apple, but the current commercial and technological war between China and the United States – including Washington's veto on Chinese giant Huawei – has reduced the American presence this year.