Wireless Technology:Is it a health hazard?
Posted on August 26, 2011
Technology, the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, brings forth benefits, and risks of undefined danger. While the benefits of a new technology are easily identified, dangers from technology are often difficult to detect during its initial deployment. A rapidly evolving and spreading technology is in the world of wireless hardware using radio frequencies, alias RF. The world is immersed with radio communications in the form of baby monitors, cordless telephones, satellite television, garage door openers, wireless cooking thermometers, GPS, home entertainment systems, wireless LANs, and the ubiquitous cell phone. Wireless communication is used by 96 of the U.S. population.
Studies have proven that RF can damage DNA in living cells. Some multi-country studies suggest that there may be a link between radio frequency exposure and damage to the immune system. However, at this point, there are too many variables, and there has not been enough exhaustive studies done, to say conclusively that wireless technology is a health hazard. Output power, distance, exposure time, accumulative exposure, and their effects on human genetics, require further investigation. The same safety precautions used with fire will do for wireless technology: do not build it too big, and do not stand too close for too long.
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