Where shouldn’t you place your laptop? On your lap, apparently.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Wi-fi? Why worry?
They should be calling for the closure of TV and radio transmission towers rather than asking us to turn off our wi-fi laptops.
The modulated frequencies that carry Radio 4 and ITV into our homes are just as powerful as the wireless networks, and a lot more pervasive.
And my wireless network is only carrying data when I’m online, while Radio 3 burbles all day long, possibly exciting electrons in my brain and causing headaches.
Then there is the danger from photons of visible light streaming down onto us as we work, since these carry more energy than microwaves and could surely do more damage.
Perhaps we should demand that our children work in the dark.
Andy Roberts is a writer who initiated DARnet. Contact me on aroberts@gmail.com or @aroberts on twitter
