The future of Science and Technology (sequel)

The three elements of human existence and development: material, information, energy.

Material has (including but not limited to) nanotechnology in progress, information advances in IT information technology in the development, and energy, there are new energy technology in the exploration, at the same time, the human itself, will be through the transformation of the brain into a new round of "evolution." But it feels as if something is missing.

Permit me to issue and control of a nation, and I Care not who makes its laws!

--mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812)

"I don't care who makes the law as long as I can control the issue of a country's currency," said Meyer Ross Rothschild.

The first contact with this sentence in Chinese or from the "currency war." The author of this book has turned a few pages, "Money Master" also read several times, for conspiracy theory always reserve opinions. But the author is interested in the very stimulating topic of currency control.

On the issue of currency, almost every country in the world has monopolized it because it is one of the most important rights of the Government. Yet this power is often abused: the government wants to boost the economy, issue money, trade wars between countries, issue currency, and government finances, and currency. In particular, the effects of the financial leverage of Wall Street magicians have become even more uncontrollable: a short-lived partial boom that has caused a long-term global financial catastrophe. And in order to deal with this disaster, the United States must go through "intense and wonderful" performance-like debate, and finally set a short-term economic stimulus plan, the implementation of aggressive monetary policy-quantitative easing, plainly still the issue of currency. After the United States issued the currency, many countries for their own interests, will also be relative to the issuance of currency.

The consequences of the misuse of the currency's right to issue money, or excess money, directly led to currency devaluation (inflation) and looting of people's wealth.

Shihan once in "economic big chess How we do" repeatedly stressed the importance of curing wealth, to find an anchor point of wealth. But even with the anchor, people are still looking for a balance in their panic.

But the progress of technology, at least let the author see some possibility, this possibility is bitcoin.

Bitcoin (Bitcoin) is a virtual currency in the form of a file. Its "operating mechanism does not depend on the central bank, government, corporate support or credit guarantees, but rather rely on network protocols from seed documents in Peer-to-peer networks, a central, self-improvement monetary system that theoretically ensures that no one, institution, or government can manipulate bitcoin's monetary aggregates or create inflation. Its monetary aggregates are gradually increasing at a predetermined rate of design, and the pace of increase is gradually slowing, culminating in the 21 million limit in 2140. ”

Its 4 main features are attractive:

1. Go to the center

Why is the right to issue money in the hands of the state and not the citizens? It is a personal view that the original purpose of the currency issue right to be regulated by the Government is to prevent money from being junk. Because if the public to issue their own currency, it may lead to a wide range of currencies, currency exchange rate complex, the free circulation of money, government regulation and other more serious problems. But when the issue of currency is nationalized, there is no guarantee that there will be no money spamming.

Therefore, when there is a currency, its distribution right neither in the government nor the people, but by the rules of the algorithm to issue, it also guarantees the freedom and security of the currency. Of course, such currencies also challenge the interests that have mastered the rights of the group. We can boldly imagine that once such "righteous" currencies began to circulate on a large scale in the market, people would find an anchor for their wealth-people had endured enough of their wealth to be looted and their currencies would have been thrown empty.

2. Worldwide circulation

Bitcoin has no time or space, and anyone can tap, buy, sell or collect bitcoin on any computer connected to the Internet.

3, no hidden costs

Bitcoin does not have onerous limits and formalities. Know the other side of the Bitcoin address can be paid, and can be remitted free Bitcoin. But if you want to make sure that the deal is executed more quickly, you will charge about 1 cents for each transaction. It sounds very close to the current phone payment and is convenient for quick 0 handling charges.

4, Borderless, Cross-border

Bitcoin can be paid across the border to truly achieve point-to-point trading. Unlike current transfers and payments, there is a handling charge on the one hand, and exchange rate fluctuations loss on the other. Without transferring to the bank's account, the bank would be less tares a fleece-it seems to be a public enemy of governments and banks.

Although it has many advantages, it is as good as speculation and collectibles as it is now, and if it is too ideal as a wealth anchor, it is more impractical to prop up a huge deal as an actual payment tool.

First, Bitcoin will break the bottleneck of quantity supply, and it may be far enough to reach the limit of 21 million by 2140;

Second, because of the unregulated characteristics of bitcoin, it has become one of the best means of black market transaction and money laundering, and the individual bitcoin is not traceable after being stolen.

Then there is the legitimacy of Bitcoin. It is clear that governments are unwilling to cede vested interests to an algorithm. Once the bitcoin is declared an illegal currency, the Bitcoin trading platform will be banned (Bitcoin will not be two concepts), and the ability of Bitcoin to become more difficult. A currency can no longer circulate in the market, even if the currency is more fair, the people at the bottom of the national resistance to the government can not do anything.

Finally, and most importantly, what is the value of Bitcoin? The value fluctuation of international currency (i.e. exchange rate change) is the means of international politics game, it will bring risk to transnational trade, the value fluctuation of domestic currency (inflation and deflation) is the means to control domestic economy, and will bring the risk to wealth. What is the real meaning of the value fluctuations between the bitcoin itself and the dollar?

In addition, Bitcoin is the invention of the electronic money, itself is also a special commodity, can be used to buy, store, pay. But who has the right to give it natural legitimacy? Satisfies the fair release, the security, the circulation, does not have the inflation and so on condition, is legal? In that case, Ben Cong (Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym, and no one knows who "he" is) to invent other currencies that meet the criteria, such as kilobit (KB), megabit (MB), Gigabit (GB)?

There is still a hard way to explore the future currency.

The author thinks that bitcoin is not only a temptation, but also an expression of appeal. On the surface, the people need a fair and just currency, in fact, is to express the desire of personal wealth not to be plundered. Shihan has repeatedly said, "I am eager to have a fair, just, transparent and sound system, so that everyone can live in dignity in this land, without worry, cold, poverty, misery ...".

This kind of currency not only carries the people's wealth dream, but also carries the populace's living dignity!

to explore the universe

The real mission of man is to explore, to pursue freedom, to expand outward. When the brain of the earth is intelligent to a certain extent, it will focus on the outside world of exploration.

Here we have to mention a man-Ellon Masc (Elon Musk), an entrepreneur and practitioner of science.

The reader may not be familiar with the introduction of a few things he has done:

• In 1999, Zip2, which co-founded with his brother, was Compaq with 307 million dollar cash and 34 million dollar stock options. Elon was only 24 years old.

• Founded PayPal, in 2002 to 150 million U.S. dollars (about 920 million yuan) was bought by ebay.

• Founded private space exploration company in 2002. The International Space Station was successfully replenished in 2012.

· Tesla founder.

2013 Time Magazine The world's 100 most influential figures.

·“ The fifth type of traffic mode "super-ring train program of the proposed."

• The real version of Tony Stark, Iron Man's protagonist.

One of the most remarkable is Space X. "Only four countries in the world have access to satellite launches and recycling technologies, the United States, Russia, China and Elon Musk." "Space X designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft to send astronauts to the ISS, with the aim of reducing costs by reusing rockets and allowing ordinary people to live on other planets," he said. It is reported that Beijing time June 22, 2013, the first man-made satellite in Turkmenistan was replaced by SpaceX responsible for the launch. The satellite was scheduled to use the Chinese Long March series rockets (perhaps, when the rocket technology was spread to the extent that can be downloaded, the price advantage of relying on cheap labor will come to an end).

and Space X's immigrant Mars program, let people suddenly feel that the Earth's politics, war and arrogance, become meaningless. At this point, science fiction began to enter the reality: The world view changed, values will also be overturned.

I suddenly think of the summer of 2013 Mincayani in Beijing Wanda concert at the end of a passage, "... When they look at the Earth in space, it's hard for them to distinguish every country on earth, because on earth, those national boundaries do not exist, I dream that one day, all the boundary lines will disappear, at that time, we finally found that all the people on Earth live in a place, we are all family, have this beautiful Earth. How we treat the earth and how we treat ourselves. ”

Then he played "one Man's Dream", which touched the soul.

Perhaps a day soon, in the Interstellar Express to Mars, some ordinary people through the porthole to look at the Earth, suddenly reminded of the former dream of being imprisoned to dozens of square meters of prison, and more people even desire to be imprisoned in the absence of the situation, may not be able to sigh unceasingly.

Mankind will come out of the cradle sooner or later, and the rocket of discovery has been ignited by the giant.

This chapter expands reading:

1. Top Ten space startups

Http://tech.qq.com/a/20130806/001366.htm#p=1

2, Space X official website

http://www.spacex.com/

3. Immigrant Mars program

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