6G and Onward to Next G

CHAPTER 46G Vision and Next G Alliance Roadmap

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN(1809–1865)

In Chapter 1, we have briefly reviewed some of the most intriguing 6G visions of the future life and digital society as of early 2021, when our prequel book was published. We saw that researchers focus not only on the technologies but they also expect the human transformation in the 6G era through unifying experiences across the physical, biological, and digital worlds. Furthermore, new themes are likely to emerge such as the creation of digital twin worlds that are a true representation of the physical and biological worlds at every spatial and time instant, unifying our experience across these physical, biological, and digital worlds. Digital twin worlds of both physical and biological entities will be an essential platform for the new digital services of the future. We also saw that digitalization will pave the way for the creation of new virtual worlds with digital representations of imaginary objects that can be blended with the digital twin world to various degrees to create a mixed‐reality (MR), super‐physical world, enabling new superhuman capabilities and augmenting human intelligence.

Recently, on 14 June 2022, the first IEEE Next G Summit took place.¹ Many of the presentations focused on the 6G vision and use cases. Given that the discussion on the 6G vision and use cases in International Telecommunication Union‐Radiocommunication Sector ...