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Monday, April 23, 2007
Is the electronic smog slowly killing you?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
They’re calling it “electronic smog” as well as comparing it to the dangers of smoking.
The premise is simple. With all the wireless networks and other devices that emit radio frequency radition - our bodies and brains are being zapped 24 hours a day. At home there is your wireless network. At work, there’s another network. And now that entire cities - including Atlanta - may offer wide area wireless, there is even more radiation.
What’s the health risk of all that? I think it’s safe to say that no one knows. But this article, from a newspaper in the United Kingdom, makes a case that electronic smog may be killing us.
If that’s right, the bad of it is that - unlike quitting smoking or losing weight - there’s no way to escape from all this. (Well, I guess you could wrap yourself in aluminum foil but that’s sure gonna stop traffic and you’ll end up taking a drug test at work).
Like I said, I don’t know what the dangers are - or whether they exist at all. But when you combine the constant barrage of wireless signals with the daily exposure to cellular telephone radio frequency you can sure make a case that such long term and constant exposure is a worry.
What do you think?
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