AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson discusses building 'a world without screens' at DC luncheon (via Axios)
We carry around these devices and they're bigger than they should be, because there's a lot of computing in here, there's a lot of storage in here. When you get to 5G, all that computing, all that storage goes away — it's back in the network. These form factors, some would say they shrink.
I say they go away. It is conceivable that we're going to be moving into a world without screens, a world where this [points to his glasses] is your screen. You don't need any more of a form factor than this, once the computing and storage requirements move out and into the network. And guys like you [waving to the TV cameras in the back] can think very differently about how you deliver your content to your customers. It becomes a delivery without screens.
AT&T is right at the very center of all this because, if you ask yourself: Five years from now, in this room, will you be consuming more or less global bandwidth. More? Who thinks more? Will you be consuming more or less premium entertainment? More? Well, I like where we are on both of those.from Steve Jobs, before the iPhone's 2007 launch:"We were building a mobile Internet — that's what 3G was about. ... I didn't really know what the mobile Internet looked like. ...
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