Mobile Industry’s 5G Revolution Heralds the Rise of the Machines

As executives from the world’s biggest phone companies gather in Barcelona next week, much of their focus will be on the $1.7 trillion they’re spending as they upgrade to fourth-generation wireless technology.

Yet delegates at the Mobile World Congress will also be discussing what happens after that period of investment ends in 2020, as attention shifts to mobile’s fifth generation: a development being targeted less at humans and more at machines.