What happens to people as individuals in the internet age

The future is the era of the geek, is the personality, has the expertise, has the interest hobby person, will become this society very important crowd, even becomes the social mainstream. Every point of interest or hobby, in the future, may develop into the great skills we rely on to survive.

"As individuals, what changes will happen in the internet age?" he said. "It's a very interesting question that I've been looking at lately," he said. Many netizens ask, personal power in the era of intelligent network become more powerful or more vulnerable?

Two months ago, I discussed this issue with the former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Kelly, author of Runaway, Kevin Kelly, later called KK. We say that the future of the world is a network world, all individuals and companies have two ways to survive: One is the point of the way, one is the line of the way, and the dots and lines can be connected to the network. As individuals, in this era, what should be the survival strategy?

KK mentioned that 100 years ago, the United States and China 80% or 90% of people engaged in agricultural production, if someone told them, 100 years later will go to the information industry, no farming, no one will believe. Otherwise everybody eats what, not all must starve to death. But today, only 2% of Americans are engaged in agricultural production, but they meet all the food needs of America and even export.

No one can imagine the changes that have taken place in more than 20 years, he argues, and there may be more change in the future, even more than in the past 20 years. We will continue to create more job opportunities for young people, although the competition is fierce, but their future is very optimistic.

Keynes had asserted that 100 years later there would be no economic problems for mankind and all industrial and agricultural production would be saturated. People will flock to the Internet to transform the whole society. I think that all economic forms will shift from the basic needs of people to the sense of self satisfaction, and today's situation is also constantly highlighting this point.

A new culture is being born that is completely different from our parents. Young people in China have felt it, but they have not expressed it.

I am also a young man, and this change has been validated on my own. Looking back, I was desperate, and I've been trying to figure out how to go beyond the last generation. I said that the last generation is not our parents, but about 8-9 years older than us, this little poke people almost mastered the entire internet right of speech. In the early years, they seized the opportunity to open the Territory and occupy the Great Wall of the Internet. Now, when we enter this industry, we find that the pits are occupied by them, and they are as insurmountable as mountains. They have better organizations, more money, more than 10 years of experience, and most importantly, they are quite diligent. Even if the money is still 10 years of fighting on the front line, almost no vacation. I am puzzled that this is not a problem without solution. They are always more diligent than you, and more than you have money, harder than you, what do you do?

Later, I deconstruct the problem. Because it suddenly dawned on me that our generation, or younger people, had some qualities that were not in the previous generation. This trait is particularly evident in China. Simply put, I think I'm more interested in playing than they are. This could be a breakthrough.

In my opinion, the Internet brings a geek era, not a good student era. When we were young, we pursued labor all-round development and wished to comment on Miyoshi or five good students. As long as there is a score partial, home and teachers want to stab you with a knife. The kind of education that was accepted as a child was essentially a misleading education. It seems to be the biggest lie in the history of mankind, as long as it works.

I remember at that time a word called "book Mountain Youlu for the path, the art of endless hard to make a boat." At that time thought that as long as diligently, diligently, does not sleep, must be able to defeat the opponent. It turned out that I couldn't do it. Because you do not sleep, others can not sleep, and even 10 times times hard to compete with you, staring at you, no matter what you do innovation, he will continue to copy, and there are more powerful weapons than you.

For instance. As we all know, our competitors have been playing the role of "security", claiming that the bad guys are not allowed to enter your home, whether or not the bad guys, in the end not to let others in, and then "security" in the inside open their own store, and then let you buy his things. Through so many years of product education, it has allowed users to accept this model. Therefore, it must be very difficult to win the role of "security" in order to defeat the opponents. Later, we spent a lot of our minds and decided to go overseas to find the market first. Now, Cheetah clean-up master This product in the Google Play Tool list ranked first in the world, ranked fifth in the world, more than Twitter, line and other foreign very popular applications. Also, we have been chasing more than half of our competitors at the mobile end, and the overall user volume will have a chance to overtake it next year.

Therefore, it is not enough to rely on diligence and hard work. In the Internet age, diligence cannot be described as a necessary condition for success.

Because the Internet quality does not require comprehensive, only you at a certain point is very unique. Once you find this point, it will be like a small awl, in the very flat of the world suddenly let you highlight. Even if you are willing to set an S-type, you can be as successful as Sister Furong. In the pre-industrial era, it was impossible to spread the image of small audiences and the ability to gather small audiences, which were magnified dramatically in the internet age.

This change is almost unthinkable in traditional times. In the traditional era of industrialization, everyone has to meet industrial production, people do not have the means to play his characteristics, transmission efficiency is extremely low, we can not find in the vast amount of users like-minded people.

Today, every person in the information system is a node in the Internet. You may find like-minded people within a very small area and create your own position with very low cost of transmission. The role that people play has changed so that everyone needs to rethink their position.

I summed up a sentence: The future is the Geek era, is a personality, have special skills, have the interest of people, will become a very important community of people, and even become the mainstream of society.

Yes, every point of interest or hobby, in the future, may develop into the great skills we rely on to survive.

As a young person, the only thing to cherish is to cherish their own hobbies, protect their unique personality, do not because others cast strange eyes, and become as boring as others.

We should let ourselves learn to accept a "geek era", subversion of the former tall and full, do a real personality of their own, play their most gifted side, do their most interesting things, to do something extraordinary.

This is the Internet era to show us a new way of living.