The advantages and disadvantages of KK on internet industry monopoly

"Wired" magazine founder Kevin Kelly (KK) is a well-known Internet observer, the development of the entire industry has its unique observation and judgment, so there are domestic peers as a "forward-looking guidelines." Come to China two times in less than two years, speaking with a number of Chinese internet users, said that the Internet industry is usually only the monopoly of the ability to scale services, which, although causing peer complaints but beneficial to the user, KK also pointed out that, although advantageous, but this monopoly will not last long.

In the communication with KK, Monopoly has become one of the most noticeable topics. To this, KK pointed out that with the industrial era of harmful monopoly, the Internet era, whether a protocol or a standard, its monopoly is often a natural development. On the whole, KK believes that monopolies have the ability to scale universal services.

"Complaining about monopolies are competitors, not consumers," said KK, who says that consumers who enjoy free services will not be harmed by monopolies.

However, in KK serious such monopolies are often difficult to sustain, and new companies will use new technology to replace old monopolies. Take the development of IT industry as an example: The defeat of IBM is not a hardware company, but software company Microsoft; It's not software that beats Microsoft, it's internet company Google; it's not another search that beats Google, it's Facebook, the social-networking site.

Turning to the changing nature of science and technology, KK points out that technology is becoming more complex, more ecological, more organic, more like an ecosystem than a machine. He said that the internet has been improving human nature, we are in fact the development of technology products, technology allows us to become more humane, thinking more open, more diversified activities.

In this process, it is necessary to meet the challenges of personal privacy. KK believes that everyone is personalized individual, personalized from the self analysis, want the Internet to provide more personalized will be more transparent.

Looking to the next 10 years, KK bluntly now the internet is only in infancy, the past 20 years have many important inventions, but there are more important products have not been developed. He pointed out that word processing and mobile phone networks are just the beginning of the Internet, the number of terminals and servers will increase further, the internet of things will be a big trend. (Shu Shi)