Networks at the nexus of new value creation

Is the link between technology and productivity dead? This is a question on the minds of economists, policy makers and technocrats around the world. The decades old debate on the productivity paradox the global slowdown in productivity growth despite a rapid acceleration in technology progress still rages on. Bell Labs has recently examined this paradox and finds that the answer is that we need 5 new digital technologies, deployed at scale, to spark a new productivity boom (Saniee, 2017). And the beginning of this new era is now demonstrably upon us with the impending launch of new massively distributed, cloud native, dynamically adaptive end to end 5G networks.