The new era of data blowing! Calm or ignorant?

Portable computing, cloud storage and other cloud concepts have gradually changed our way of life, and with the continuous creation, sharing, storage and analysis of data, large-scale data center storage and analysis of the factory will soon appear Like today's Google, Facebook is already doing some of the same work, it is like everyone's thinking, experience and wisdom continue to be transported to a similar today's power processing plant in such places, through the summary, analysis and processing, change Into knowledge and drive everyone, society's energy return to come. In such an era of digital survival, each person's thinking, behavioral traces are clearer, more transparent, predictable, the data quickly into knowledge, insight and implementation, and not only human behavior, or even Even memory, thinking is also digitally recorded and analyzed. Data is more than just an important source of production. Just like the industrial revolution in coal or petroleum, will data intervene and wrap everything that lives in us, and even become an indispensable element of water and air?

It looks like the future looks wonderful. Human behavior will be more predictable, decision-making will also be more dependent on data, education, health and personal development will be more assessable and personalized, and scaled-up and scientifically solved new tools. However, issues such as data privacy, diversification and fear of data monopolies and dictatorships can also arise. As the movie "Minority Report" depicts: With the development of science and technology, humans have invented "smart" robots that can detect people's brainwaves - the "Prophet." The "Prophet" was able to detect a criminal attempt, so that the criminal was arrested and sentenced by the crime prevention organization's police before the crime was committed. Spielberg, a film director, is said to be accustomed to bringing together leading physicists, sociologists, psychologists and even biology experts to study similar science fiction films to see what is really likely to happen . Just as the big-screen touchscreen controls we saw in science fiction films years ago, things like Google Glass, driverless cars and SIRI have turned from science fiction into reality, it has been hard to say whether science fiction affects reality or science fiction only in fact The data is based on projections of the future, beyond the immediate foresight, and it also changes the future.

Just like what big data is doing right now. There is no doubt that data does make our life more productive or insightful. Recently BusinessWeek published a manuscript entitled "Worship Evernote," which depicts Evernote as a five-year productivity management application whose founder, Libin, even compared it to people's "plug-in brain." Last year in China, this "plug-in brain" also launched a localized product, and was named "Evernote." Because of its trust and reliance on its outstanding ability to "remember and think," there have been many "real" Evernote controls in the world. " For example, Ted Barnett. He not only keeps the information in the cloud. Now at the end of each meeting, he took pictures of the venue whiteboard, deposited it in Evernote, added some ideas of his own, and distributed it to the group members. Not long ago he went to Istanbul for vacation, but also wrote a "Travel Guide" for friends with Evernote. BusinessWeek reports: "The more you use Evernote, the more Barnett can discover new ways." Similarly, Digleywobloch, a 38-year-old site called Digitwirl.com Specialize in publishing videos to guide you how to use the latest technology to simplify your family life. Today, Norbu Lodge has also become the Evernote guidance ambassador, she always smiles to explain how he can not do without it, just as breathing can not let go. Noble Lodge said she can save lots of important information on Evernote. She said Evernote's search capabilities are so powerful that they do not have to be time-consuming, even with thousands of records. Norbu Lodge also compares Evernote to "Modern Baby Growth Record," and her notes are full of videos, pictures, read letters, and different types of documents that look like a scrapbook. "You can put your entire life in." And, the more time you soak in Evernote, the more bubbling it gets: as one Evernote fan said, Evernote was used After that, you will "embed" this application inside.

In fact, Evernote is only a miniature or representative of such data or knowledge power plants. Facebook, Google and Baidu will also become part of a knowledge power plant. After telecom operators have spent their voice and traditional data services have shrunk, Computing and big data transformation, they will also become part of the knowledge power plant, and even banks, hospitals, traffic management departments, school research institutions, etc. will join. Knowledge-based power plants may not be so distributed by geographic area, or frequency of use, and may be more like the data centers of Google and Apple, distributed in remote or cold but energy-efficient places. However, the use of information maps, or information arteries, pulsating information, must be distributed according to such needs. We can obtain its visualization icons in the future. As we have seen today, economic trends clearly reveal its Demand and supply, as well as its close relationship with the regional economy, people and creativity. Of course, the most important thing now is to establish rules when these messages are aggregated, delivered, analyzed, reflowed, and used. Legislation is required. Just as the beginning of the commodity economy, legislation on private property rights and transactions needed to stop confusion, prevent monopoly, and prevent the government from exercising excessive control.

This time, the device itself is no longer so much attention. Access and accept, release information nodes will spread all aspects of life, all kinds of equipment around us will have the ability to calculate, store or send, receive data, each person, organization at the same time become a producer of information And as the publisher, known as Mr. Toffler, said in the notion of Knowledge-Producing-Prosumer, each of us at the same time becomes the maker of knowledge and the consumption of knowledge from the commodity age to the knowledge age The relationship between the capital and the productive resources of labor will be replaced by the relation between the data and the material factors of production. On the one hand, it is very important to formulate, supervise and legislate on data ownership, data pricing and trading rules. On the other hand, such a system of data usage on a large scale, deep mining, extremely dependent on computing and algorithms, and machine intelligence, It also brings another seemingly remote, but relatively dangerous, worry to humans. Data will not be "living around"? Not long ago released a new season series short film "Black Mirror" Episode 1 "immediately back" is to tell a story similar to: a car accident took Martha's boyfriend Ash lives . At Friend's recommendation, Martha utilized the information she left on social networks to create a fake Ash with artificial intelligence, akin to Ash's speaking and thinking. At the beginning, Martha could only hear and synthesize Ash from her cell phone and communicate and share with him. Soon after, the voice told Martha that there was a way to get Ash truly "back" to her Around, just as similar to the 3D printing copy with a similar appearance, similar thoughts Ash. Even more extreme is the scene described by Matrix: The machine builds Matrix, a virtual human world in which humans live under computer control. The so-called Matrix, in mathematical sense, is the meaning of a matrix, which in computer science refers to the crossover network input and output in a computer, similar to the largest data electric field we describe. Matrix needs human minds (perhaps what we call information or data) to provide energy. When human beings in this society were born, their own sense of autonomy was suppressed by Matrix. Matrix assigned each person a role (ie, program).

We know that whether it is a traditional computing machine or a future data electric field, the core is computing power and information data. Just as human beings except the body shell, the core is thinking, memory, and emotional elements that are difficult to duplicate. From a "God's" perspective, the distance between the two will become closer and more similar to each other as human and machine integration, hand-to-brain dependence and close combination. Of course, things such as machine or artificial intelligence are still alive now and now look like science fiction. After all, human beings still believe we are the only creators. Data, the times when machines represent their own speech, are far from possible. But it is a very, very real and serious question about "how data can change and affect our lives," and "whether data can change or hijack people's ways of thinking."

After all, no matter how to say, the real people should all have their own sense of independence and thinking, should have their own ability to make decisions and judgments. Victor Meir Schoenberg, the author of "Big Data Age," portrayed the era we were in when we delivered the keynote speech "Big Data, Big Impact," at Zhongguancun's Cloud Base in Beijing last week: "We have learned from the data-lacking era Access to a data-rich era offers the opportunity for our Big Data era, where data is the infrastructure that we are all familiar with on the road, the power grid, and the tap water. In the cloud world, data is stored And processing is also an infrastructure. Big data helps us better understand the world and helps us make better decisions, including what medical services should be, including how we educate our children, including a car Big data gives us a lot of new challenges and dangers that our community has never had before, and, very importantly, we can make good use of that data to make sure that humans are the data The owner. "

However, as he said in his conclusion, while we must have insight through data, we can not give up human consciousness and ability to think independently, and we should learn to master the data without being controlled by the data. Harvard University professor Sandal in his open class and "Justice: What to do is good," a book also raised a series of problems such as freedom first, community interests and moral boundaries. As we are today in the process of data accumulation and use, we may also face similar social or ethical dilemmas in the same way that the data bring us insights, future-proofing, better decisions and life, and more Anxiety, the future of a single, for privacy or freedom?

Zhou Tao, chief scientist at Beijing Cloud Base Big Data Lab and a professor at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, also sent out similar questions and raised questions about the diversity or softness brought by the data. "We all know that data Or even make the data we have available seem to be diverse, but the development of big data technology, especially in the role of intellectual, is not possible in a sense, let our choice and our world Become more anxious and single. "Professor Zhou Tao thinks, give a simple example, to see a person's richness, not only refers to this person had more joy, more happiness, more beautiful. To a large extent, if we recall our whole life in the future, we want a complete personality, and he will have a deep pain and a stupid mistake in it. He said: "We have these big data tools, we should know, what kind of girl is generally with us, we should also know that what kind of work can be selected for our career is good , We may also go a long way without taking a lot of detours, and I wonder if these detours are not a defect in the long run for mankind?

The face of rushed data, a new era of knowledge, humans are still in their late childhood cognitive babbling, ignorant, but at the same time full of craving and courage. Just as more than 500 years ago, before the discovery of the big voyage or the new technological revolution that followed, mankind stood before a new and revolutionary new era of magnificent waves and waves. No one is 100% sure about the future. Just as the so-called big data forecast is the most important one for the current guidance, what we need is the discovery of the big navy, the unknown courage, or the invention and innovation ability of the scientific revolution, The process of creating and harnessing machine capabilities, confidence in new rules and legislation, and of course the ability to solve problems in the process. After all, the future is there, the problems and hopes are there, and humans are never afraid to go hope for fear of problems.