Chapter 738 Write a book called "Digital Survival"
The word Internet was a very fresh concept in this era, even in the United States.
Although many old American investment groups do not have a special understanding of the new Internet, especially behemoths like Morgan Stanley and Citi, the elite think tanks they hired with high salaries will also give their most accurate direction for their future investment.
That's the Internet.
Among them, on Wall Street, the farthest person in Internet investment is the Traveler Group, which Jester has a large number of shares in.
But there are not many investment projects.
This is true in the United States, not to mention domestic network construction and current charging prices, but the number of netizens is very rare.
In Jester's memory, the first website in China should be Yinghaiwei. However, even Yinghaiwei has not been established now. It will not be established until May next year, a company that is crucial in the history of domestic Internet will be established.
In this era, if you build a website, you will definitely lose money.
It is not the United States in the United States. For example, the United States Online, which invested by Traveler Group, had nearly 200,000 users in the past few years, and is the website with the most viewed people in the United States. Moreover, in Jester's memory, in the original history, American Online would be acquired by Time Warner at an extremely high price a few years later.
However, it will be difficult to make a profit in domestic websites within ten years.
Jester remembers that when he was in that world, he read some books and articles about the development of the Internet in China during this period. In those materials, there is a saying that is very classic. It is used to describe the domestic Internet in this wilderness era. However, everyone knows that the Internet represents the future, but no one knows how to live to the future.
It’s nothing more than that in a short period of time, the Internet does not make money. And you also need to invest money in it. Yinghaiwei’s assets were 80 million, which was 80 million in the mid-1990s. As a result, Yinghaiwei only lasted until the beginning of the 20th century and was about to see the dawn, the earliest Internet company in China, the pioneer, fell completely.
Actually, facing the Internet now.
Whether in the United States, where the Internet is the most developed, or in other countries, including China, in addition to the scarcity of network users and the installation of network lines, these Internet companies that want to be the first to try their luck are also facing a very important problem, that is, how can we make profits from the Internet.
Although investing in Internet companies is very popular in the United States now, these investors actually don’t know how to make the Internet make money in the future. They just invest in the future. The Internet will definitely make a lot of money in the future, but as for how to make a lot of money, we don’t care, it will always make a lot of money.
For example, there is a very famous story. When Zhang Chaoyang, the founder of Sina in China, introduced the prospects and future of his company to some senior executives of Morgan Stanley. However, the people who were listening to Morgan Stanley were obviously absent-minded, and they actually couldn't understand what Zhang Chaoyang was saying. A female executive even fell asleep while listening to Zhang Chaoyang's speech.
In fact, there is no expert and scholar in the entire international world that has a very accurate and clear summary and prediction.
With the development of Internet technology, what impact will this emerging thing have on us?
In Jester's memory, this was in the 1996. A professor in the Department of Computer Science at MIT named Negroponte wrote a book called "Digital Survival". This was the first time that someone had described the future digital society in front of everyone in a clearer way.
Then, inevitably, when the Internet was at its peak, such a book would definitely be soaring.
This book was also praised by everyone in the later years as the Bible for the development of information technology and concepts in the 20th century. The popularity and dissemination of this book had a profound impact on the enlightenment and development of the information age in the last century. This book explains the basic concepts, trends and applications of information technology, huge values and the grand blueprint of the digital age in an easy-to-understand manner, and clarifies the impact and value of information technology and the Internet on the times and people's lives. The author Negroponte became the godfather in the field of information technology investment and trend analysis. His popularity has greatly increased and the intangible value it has brought is immeasurable.
When Jester thought of this, he was a little moved.
When he reaches his position, money actually doesn't matter. No matter how much it is, it's a number, but no one hates too much reputation.
He was wondering if he would write this book in advance and then gain endless fame and fortune? According to his current qualifications and status, he is indeed qualified to write a book.
You know, this book has a great impact on future generations. If this world can collect faith and become sanctified, then the book "Digital Survival" can directly make a mortal ascend in the daytime.
Jester has read this book, and has been more than once.
It is certainly impossible to let him recite it perfectly or retell it. However, this book was written by Negroponte in 1996. Although his book pointed out a road to Rome for those who worked in the Internet and digitalization later on, prophecy is prophecy after all, and there will always be some differences from reality.
But Jester is different. Jester has seen what the world will look like after being deeply influenced by the Internet in the future.
For him, when he wrote this book "Digital Survival", he did not need to deduce it like Negroponte, but could directly and accurately describe the future world, this should be like this.
The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, and Jester was even now a little eager to start writing immediately.
He found a large stack of manuscript paper, took out a pen, and almost without thinking, right above the paper, and wrote down the name of the book he wanted to write in English.
Digital survival.
However, after writing down the name, Jester suddenly realized that because he could write too many things, he didn't know where to start writing. As for the sake of his good intention, he wanted to write too many things. He just looked at the name and was silent for half a minute. Jester suddenly threw the pen in his hand aside.
Chapter completed!