"Wired" interviewed Zuckerberg for free internet access for everyone

NetEase Science and technology news August 27, according to foreign media reports, last week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) led by Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Opera, Many technology companies, including Qualcomm and MediaTek, have set up Internet.org to provide affordable Internet services to the world's poorest people. The move is another step forward for Zuckerberg to "connect everyone in the world through the Internet", with a special face-to-face interview with Wired magazine. The following is a summary of the interview: Wired: Why should we form alliances to promote global networking? Zuckerberg: The Internet is an important foundation for improving the world, but it does not create itself. Over the past few years, we have invested more than 1 billion dollars in developing countries to keep people connected. We have a product called Facebook for Every phone, which provides our services on a functional phone; it now has 100 million users. But there is still no company or government in the world that can build a complete infrastructure to support the service. So you need someone to work with. Since we announced the establishment of Internet.org, we have heard the voices of operators and governments from all over the world who want to work with us. This will provide the impetus for our work over the next 3-5 years or longer. Wired: You say that "networking" is a human right – rising to the status of free speech, freedom from hunger, and other fundamental rights. Can you explain that? Zuckerberg: What will happen in the next century is the process of an industrial, resource-based economy going over the intellectual economy. An industrial economy is 0 and. If you own an oil field, then I can't mine on the same field. But knowledge is different. If you know something, then you can share it-and the world will become richer. But before that happens, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Of the 500 million richest people today, they have more than the sum of the remaining 6 billion. To solve this problem, we need to connect everyone to the knowledge economy-and therefore to build a global Internet connection. Wired: But we have a so-called networked knowledge-based economy in the United States, and the wealth gap is unprecedented. We also seem to see a serious polarization. Zuckerberg: A natural transition must happen. This year I teach at a local high school where many students do not surf the Internet at home. So we still have a lot of work to do in America. It's not like, "Cross your hands, then everyone has the Internet, and now the world has not changed." "The Industrial revolution has not happened for ten years. People need a cornerstone to promote change. Wired: Even if you don't set up alliances, mobile phones will get cheaper, right? Zuckerberg: Can't say that because smartphones get cheaper, those who can buy can afford the cost of data traffic. For example, the iphone's two-year ownership cost in the United States is $2000 trillion-500 dollars for the phone itself, and another 1500 for data. The cost of data traffic is far more expensive than the telephone itself. So the biggest problem is making the data cheaper and figuring out how to make Internet telephony available free, and then building a business model on that basis. Wired: How do you make data cheaper? Zuckerberg: We spent a lot of time trying to get our apps running faster, fewer failures, and fewer bugs, but until this year, we didn't spend a lot of time delivering the same experience with less data. These were once unimportant, for many users of developed countries that use our services. But in creating the next billions of dollars, these are crucial. At the beginning of the year, people averaged approximately 12MB of traffic on Android on average for Facebook apps. And I think in the next few years we can drop that number to one MB a day and just make a small change. Because a MB is still a bit large for some countries, we have to consider whether we can do half of the 1MB, or even one-third. Wired: Can you do anything based on the text information of the Internet, and almost free? Zuckerberg: My entire text-based white paper has a small size of one-tenth megabytes (MB). But a 30-second video, like the one we did for Internet.org, was easy to reach from 50 to 100MB, and that was after a lot of compression. But the volume of the text file I gave was not compressed. So compressing the underlying services will have more opportunities than video. Wired: Of course, telecoms operators can help by providing higher bandwidth and lower costs. Now they're not in your league. Is that going to change? Zuckerberg: Of course. Over time, more people will join the organization, operators and non-operators will. Wired: Other consumer-facing internet companies, like Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, are not joining your current alliance. Did you ask them? Do you think they'll eventually join? Zuckerberg: In this space, many companies are doing a lot of good. We talked to Google and Microsoft. I think some of these companies will also opt to join in over time. The things I focus on for Internet.org need the cooperation of various companies to achieve. Wired: It's strange to hear you talk about returning to a low data consumption pattern based on text format, because Facebook is in the opposite direction-adding more and more information media and services. Zuckerberg: After we've helped everyone achieve Internet access and get basic access, then our next challenge is to get everyone to have high-speed speedStop it. Wired: Your White paper mentions the creation of new business models in the promotion of networking services. Can you give me an example? Zuckerberg: I have an idea that you can answer the phone anywhere, even if you don't have a voice service on your phone, you can still get basic services such as dialing 911. I think we can create a business model that allows a lot of people who can't afford this kind of service to get these things for free. I'm talking about services such as text messaging, Wikipedia, search engines, social networks, weather conditions, and commodity prices. I call these the dial tones for the Internet (dial tone). We want to make these services available to everyone--or even someone who can't afford the data--to get the Internet dial tone and use these basic services after walking into a store and getting a mobile phone. Wired: So who's going to pay for these services? Zuckerberg: Part of the value of services like social networking, texting, and search engines is that they are portals to more services. With free access to those services, people will find more sustainable content on this basis and then use more data traffic to access more content. This will eventually become a very lucrative model for operators. Operators will make more money from new users, so they can afford to provide these services free of charge. Wired: So does Facebook plan to provide online authentication services for the next billions of users? Zuckerberg: In many developing countries, it's hard to keep an idea of who your clients are. If you are an Indian operator who buys your service at a retail store and bundles money and data into their SIM card, you won't know much about the person. It would be valuable if you could build a long-term relationship with your customers. I don't want to pretend that we're the only company that can do this, but if we can create some value in that area, it's certainly something we're interested in. Wired: Why not set up a fund or non-profit organization? Zuckerberg: Through selfless devotion, the problem will not be solved. Tens of billions of dollars a year is spent building these infrastructures. It's a little too big for philanthropy, and it's not a sustainable model. There are a lot of companies that work to provide this. So far, so many of these jobs have been created. But to achieve this vision, companies need to work together. Internet.org can provide such help. Wired: Your critics point out that Internet.org is a selfish plan, just to help Facebook build a user base. Zuckerberg: Of course, we want to help more people on the Internet, so we can theoretically benefit from it. But that criticism is not a no-brainer. Now Facebook has more than 1 billion users, and its wealth is more than the sum of the remaining 6 billion people. If we just want to make more money, the right strategyis to focus on developed countries and existing Facebook users. Our services are free and are not advertised in many developing markets. So for a long time this may not be profitable for us. But I'm willing to make that investment because I think it will make the world a better place. Wired: What attracts you to this job? Zuckerberg: Obviously anyone with a cell phone should be able to access the Internet. People often talk about the huge changes in culture that many social media have caused in the United States. But can you imagine how big a change would be when the same thing first happened in a developing country? We use Facebook to share news and keep in touch with friends and family, but in those countries they will use Facebook to decide what kind of government they want. Or get health care information for the first time in your life. or stay in touch with a friend who is 100 miles away, lives in different villages and has not met for more than 10 years. This is the biggest change that our generation has experienced, and it is nice to see companies working closely together. (Lu Xin)