Wi-Fi Bad For Your Health

We can finally add another thing to the list of Stuff That Is Horrible For Us, right along with cigarettes, alcohol, red meat, nuclear waste, Jessica Simpson, etc. etc. etc.

Would you believe ... Wi-Fi?

From ITBusiness.ca:

Instead of trumpeting free Wi-Fi zones, municipalities should post signs advising citizens of the locations of Wi-Fi-free zones, said the president of Lakehead University at this week's Wireless Cities Summit. ...
“There is the potential for future class action suits against the municipalities that have made the decision to deploy a technology that may in the future be determined to have detrimental biological consequences,” said Fred Gilbert. “All we need to do is look at the analogues (such as smoking and asbestos exposure) and you understand what that means both to the politicians that have made those decisions and to the (companies) with which they have made those decisions.

“My advice is the cities that are deploying Wi-Fi should at a minimum acknowledge that there is a reference base related to potential health effects and provide Wi-Fi-free zones. Such areas should be posted and the hotspots identified. This is the only way to give freedom of choice.”

Dude. These hotspot things are, like, totally everywhere nowadays. They're like Acme black holes, too. Always opening up when you least expect them. How can you avoid 'em?

So, basically, what we're being told is that this is more confirmation that we're all screwed as a human race.

Man.

Happy Monday! :-)

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