Large-scale growth of mobile and off-line networks and its impact on society and economy

According to foreign media reports, at the opening of the Techonomy meeting on 11th, an expert group summed up the large-scale growth of mobile and off-line networks and its impact on the socio-economic. The Techonomy meeting was designed to see how technology changes and how society was changed, and this year's meeting was held in Arizona, State Tucson, USA. The following is a summary by the Expert group:

Douglas Gilsterp Douglas L. Gilstrap, Ericsson's senior vice president, said there would be 650 million fixed broadband worldwide by 2018, but mobile broadband users would increase to 6.5 billion. This trend towards mobile migration has revolutionized health care and education, as do pharmaceutical companies. Growth will be largely (70%) concentrated in the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

Will the growth of technology and connections bring people together or divide them? Hormats, Robert D. Hormats of the US State Department, is optimistic that it will unite people. Hormats For example, farmers in remote parts of Kenya can now use their mobile phones to get weather and agriculture data, and some Haitians have been informed of the data after the earthquake, and foreign policy has changed. Now, every agency in the U.S. government has close ties to other countries. He also cites the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to use massive amounts of data to predict the outbreak cycle of disease. And because of the development of this technology, people can also exert pressure on the government in environmental protection and health, and strengthen the accountability system of leaders.

Susan Athey, chief economist at Microsoft, said: "In the US, 97% of search queries are conducted through Google (Weibo), and this massive technological change could create potential inequalities," says Susan Esse. For example, startups will benefit from the development of cloud computing because it lowers the cost of starting a company, but if the servers are relocated to a large server center, some of the IT pros who are scattered around may lose their jobs.

David Sze, general partner of Greylock Partners at VCs, is one of Facebook's early investors, saying that the value of the Internet over the next 5 years will be higher than the sum of the past 15 years, thanks to the development of mobile phones and other technologies. Because of the Internet, Web browsers, mobile networks and other technology development, the company can develop a very simple consumer products. Technology can "dramatically improve the consumer experience." "Like Dorsey Jack Dorsey's idea of a coffee shop experience: Customers can" seamlessly "buy coffee by using square on mobile devices. Instead of talking about the speed of broadband, we are exploring education, health care and other applications of the technology.