Star Trek is a fantastic movie--so many people who don't fully understand it (as if no one in my 100% can read it) are talking passionately about it. This is really a long absence of atmosphere and feelings.
wormholes, black holes, five-D space, robots, interstellar space stations, NASA, spacecraft, space travel, organic and inorganic crystals ... Why are people interested in such things? How far are we from this world? As people begin to become more passionate about the description and imagination of some unknown world, our distance from that world is gradually approaching, and our perception of that world is becoming more and more intuitive.
More importantly, the composition and basic construction of this future world may be pointing us to a completely different new direction-the world's construction of robots, artificial intelligence, new materials, astrophysics and future life sciences in the "Information superhighway" that has been gone for more than 20 years- The Foundation and imagination of the Internet. More precisely, just as the popularity of silicon chips and integrated circuit technology 40-60 years ago became the cornerstone of the future development of Internet Information highways, the Internet today-whether social networking, new media, collaborative communication platforms or cloud computing and the big data that Peter Thiel as "investigative" will become an essential tool for artificial intelligence, robotics, the future universe, genetic sequencing, biomedicine, and even the next generation of human "brains", not the core will and the most important engine.
Even some of these science and technology scenarios can "bypass" the Internet. When Quintus (Tars) and Keith fell into five-dimensional space on the other side of the wormhole, "they" were completely lost in the Internet world. At this point, the chips that support "them" to store and compute and process data are their bodies, data storage space and battery, not cloud data center--this is just an extreme and story example, but a real fact is: we're talking today about artificial intelligence, robots and even unmanned vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles, In addition to the Internet itself as a tool for manipulating and implementing the management of them--more importantly, is to emphasize that these look like a person, a box, a car, a plane and a spaceship physical entity itself, more independent of the surrounding and the outside world of perception, communication, operation and even human communication capabilities. Only by allowing the objects of the outside world themselves to be more capable of human thinking through technology, the ability to perceive and communicate with the world, and to allow people to customize and manipulate it, it is easier to overcome the "fear" of artificial intelligence and robotics, and to resist the alienation of humanity itself from the outside world. It is not Internet technology that makes each artificial intelligence "device" smarter, but more powerful "technology-driven" areas such as chips, batteries, bionic data centers, sensors and new materials.
Take a look at the three projects Elon Musk-clean energy company Solar City, space shuttle company SpaceX and the world-famous electric vehicle Tesla, are not from the "information superhighway" angle, or even the development of the information superhighway for the mission to create. When people become more and more accustomed to using "internet thinking" to interpret the success of Tesla, in fact, into an increasingly simplistic and vulgar misunderstanding. Tesla has done a pretty good job of using the Internet to give a "car" its own features and become sexy (for example, a big-screen and full Internet experience and ordering process with powerful interactivity), but the real decision Tesla is different from the other cars that run on the road, It is its increasingly sophisticated and subtly perceptive camera and sensor, robust motor drive, automatic cruise and early warning capabilities, and increasingly real "unmanned" and "self-driving" technologies-none of which are just very powerful "cloud data centers" that can be achieved. And SpaceX and SolarCity is more completely people to the space world and new energy technology deep groping-the internet is only the most basic implementation and management tools.
Google's two co-founder--larry page and Sergey Brin, as well as the famous venture capitalist Peter Thiel, are some of the world's closest Elon Musk people. They have a strong dissatisfaction with the multiplicity of the "information superhighway", the complacency of Silicon Valley, the unease of capital over the appearance of successful entrepreneurship projects, and the almost identical stance on the desire for "disruptive new technologies". In addition, the recent installments of Y Combinator have significantly increased investment in companies in the fields of biotechnology, clean energy and artificial intelligence. If we take several companies, such as--23andme, Ndanexus, Foundation Dentistry and China's Huada genes, which are currently the hottest in the Biomedical technology field, you'll find common ground: Even though they're all people like to hang on to Zui. Big data companies, but unlike the more traditional industries that have been given new power by the Internet and the so-called "big data" and "cloud computing", these companies from day one, Internet Tools and "big data" are their cornerstones, And they will be on this basis to solve people's life code of the knowable or unknowable future step by step. The Internet, cloud computing and big data are not the "science companies" of these real sense of the blessing, but the prerequisite. Like silicon wafers, LSI and more than 30 of years ago, personal computers laid the groundwork for the advent, popularization and development of the Internet. Because of this, you will not Larry Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page to put down all of Google's current "main business", to fully engage in the life of genes, robotics and bionics and many other areas of product thinking and "Google" X May be the future of Google. The mission of "integrating the world's information and letting them flow freely" has been accomplished in most parts of the world. and the integration and flow of these information is no longer a forward-looking company's core mission-the future direction of humanity itself is expanding.
Again, in this sense, when you notice the rise of the "creation movement" around the world, when companies like 3DRobotics and DJI try to fill the skies of humans with flying machines, everything they do is already beyond the scope of thinking in the Internet. Even their extension is not the Internet, but people's imagination of transportation, agriculture, commerce, logistics and the sky itself. More importantly, while some new technologies and explorations of the unknown world, is bound to go beyond the control and mastery of the internet itself--once one day we really enter the world of interstellar crossing, being sucked into a black hole, and needing to communicate and perceive with people and machines that fall to the other end of the wormhole, internet imagination ends, It's even coming.
At this moment, sitting in front of the computer, the air around each molecule and atoms are infiltrating the "internet element" of me and we, may be to the "information superhighway" at the end of the march. At the end of the road, it is a confusing and intricate sight with countless paths to the future. And as we get closer to the end of the road, we are less free to pay attention to the concave shapes that are deliberately laid out on the highway with the "Internet thinking" sign.
(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)