It was 1977 when the Corriere dell’Informazione – so it was called the Corriere della Sera in the post-war period – published an article on the sequestro of 300 color television sets on the initiative of the Praetor of La Spezia. Target: assess the risks to human health. So much so that it was entrusted to Electronic Center of the University of Bologna et al National Council of Nuclear Energy in Rome the task of analyzing the devices. All this 10 years after the debut of color transmissions in France, Germany and England who inaugurated the season in 1967.
That article in the Corriere dell’Informazione is bouncing on social media these days. And not by chance. History is repeating itself with 5G. Over 500 orders and measures from Italian mayors to block the installation of new antennas on the wave of fake news on the links between technology and the spread of Coronavirus and more generally of the rampant disinformation on the topic. Disinformation of which – sorry to highlight it – the accredited information bodies have shown, and continue to do so, helping to feed fears without any scientific evidence. The delay that Italy served on color TV could therefore repeat itself with 5G. Today, however, with much more serious effects, considering that the fifth mobile generation represents an economic flywheel and that in this delicate post-Covid phase 19 it can be the lever on which to push to push the national GDP allowing the birth of an ecosystem of products and services which is also fundamental for generating new jobs.
The alarmism that has arisen on 5G, however, is not new in the world of mobile telephony: on the threshold of the debut of each mobile generation – therefore from decade to decade – the question of the dangers from electrosmog arises again, an even boring refrain that also shows little historical memory and little attention to the pronouncements of international bodies on the issue of dangers to human health. The ICNIRP guidelines date back to 1998 and in fact are always the same because nothing has changed since then in terms of electromagnetic emissions from mobile telephony. Nothing has changed even for theWorld Health Organization, the European Commission and national institutes, in our case theHigher Institute of Health.
And nothing has changed on the political front too: riding the wave of popular protest (in the specific case of the antennas committees) always plays the politician on duty, especially on the eve of the elections or simply to increase one’s “social” consent – which is now all a matter of clicks and followers.
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