Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm at the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The killer app for 5G will come with further investment in digital infrastructure In the tech-focused and even tech-adjacent sessions this week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, leaders from the worlds of industry and government have touted the importance and inevitability of “digital transformation.” While there’s broader debate around that keyword, what it means, and if it really means anything, to the extent that WEF is a barometer, it’s a core consideration for how capital will be spent, how it will influence the global workforce, and what all that means for society and the economy. Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm, speaking on a panel titled “Big Bets for Digital Industries,” said, “What we see is to digitalize enterprises, we will need to have improved connectivity, and it cannot be all wire-based. If you’re rotating machineries, it’s simply not possible” with wired connections. “I do believe that we are going to see this but where we are right now, we are at the [proof of concept] stage…They’re not industrialized applications yet. And I think…maybe we can say it’s a bit slower than we had […]