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| Memorial to the insatiable hunger for data: a mobile phone antenna |
by Jürg Steiner, Berner Zeitung, 22 December 2013 (translated from German by Google and the Editor of this blog)
We are sending ever faster and bigger data packets through our mobile and wireless network. We are doing so through electromagnetic radiation. Are we preparing the way for the next disease of civilization?
Casting WLAN networks like fishing nets, the Spitalgasse in Bern would be impassable. From the street, via a smartphone, one can locate dozens of pulsating wireless screens within a confined area. There are no benefits but everyone is irradiated, also by the mobile antenna covering the city center at full strength.
In the train, the same picture: from left and right, pulsating electromagnetic waves from private phones and laptops, while travelling through the sea of rays of the mobile phone network.
Omnipresent radiation
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