Riding the wind of rebirth

"It's very simple." Zhou Zhi said: "In the final analysis, information technology is for people, so may I ask, which country has the most people?"

"Hahahaha..." Li Leshan said with a smile: "Of course it is China and India, but for information technology to be used by people, it needs a large number of talents. The number of these talents is the decisive force that determines the speed of information technology development. We can’t replace the number of talents with the number of people, you are changing the concept secretly.”

Zhou Zhi continued to shake his head, "I didn't change the concept secretly. The computers in the past were indeed professional equipment. Only those with professional knowledge could use them after long-term study."

"But with the introduction of personal computers and personal operating systems, personal computers have now begun to enter thousands of households."

"With the further acceleration of this trend, it is foreseeable that the volume of personal computers will become smaller and smaller, the storage capacity will be larger and larger, the computing speed will be faster and faster, and communication technology will be more and more powerful. Compact, it will become more and more convenient to carry around.”

"These are just hardware, but for software, its functions will become more and more comprehensive, while the interface will become more and more concise, and the use will become easier and easier."

"Professor Li, do you agree with my inference?"

"There is no problem so far." Li Leshan is also very happy to discuss the application prospects of computer technology with his younger generation: "And you said that this communication technology, I think it is more important to combine with mobile communication technology, turning personal computers into A true mobile device."

Zhou Zhi really admires Li Leshan. His prediction is completely in line with the later technological development trend. It seems that this should have been the consensus of the industry leaders. Clearly built into their minds.

"Then can we boldly speculate that one day in the future, each of us will have an information device in our hands, and this information device can download and install the latest application software through the Internet?"

"It's possible." Li Leshan nodded.

"Then if there is a bug in this software system, which country will it be discovered first?" Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "In other words, which country's software is the easiest to complete the test of the trial version, and the easiest to realize the bug exposure and correction of the software , upgrade and iteration?"

"Of course, the more users there are of the software, the easier it is to accomplish this."

"Yes." Zhou Zhi said, "I admit that technical talents are the most important accumulation. Only with them can we make products."

"But any industry is the same, there is a process from cutting-edge to mass." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "In the initial stage, such as now, we are still a backward group, but I believe this situation will soon be improved."

"After the accumulation of talents reaches a certain level, the high-tech industry is destined to be transferred to serve the majority of people."

"At this time, when everyone's technical backgrounds are not far apart, the key factor determining the advancement of information technology products will no longer be the level of technical means, but the scene design and user experience of the product."

"At this stage, large-scale user testing and information feedback will be the decisive factors in determining the popularity of a software. Whoever has the largest customer base will have an innate absolute advantage!"

"Competition in the future in the information age will no longer be purely technical competition. Technical competition will eventually give way to competition in the acceleration of product iterations and competition in the size of customer groups!"

Li Leshan couldn't help being stunned, and slapped his thigh: "Now I know the way of Old Bi!"

After all, Li Leshan comes from an academic background, and his background is a professor, that is to say, he is familiar with the development of cutting-edge technologies, but he is not sure about the market application and other links.

In fact, Microsoft's rapid rise with the help of the personal computer operating system is a concrete verification of the big idea that Zhou Zhi just said, and the upcoming WIN NT is also consistent with Zhou Zhi's description of the Internet era, which belongs to the application level. Specific synchronization.

For a technology giant like Li Leshan, if Zhou Zhi hadn’t clearly pointed out to him today, the importance of each element of the information industry would eventually be adjusted to users greater than the market, the market greater than the product, the product greater than the technology, and the technology greater than the talent. It may take 20 years to understand this truth.

After all, the current mainstream cognition is completely opposite. In the cognition of most people, it is still in the stage where talents are greater than technology, technology is greater than products, products lead the market, and the market cultivates users.

And after Zhou Zhi put forward this theory, his waist became inexplicably stiffer. There is no doubt that China will become the largest market in the future and will have the largest number of users. In terms of product design, application, bug testing, and iteration , will have unique advantages.

In fact, the development of the times is indeed like this, but in today's still in its infancy, Zhou Zhi's words sound like deceit.

But Li Leshan is a rigorous and serious scholar after all. No matter how absurd his theory seems, as long as your analysis is reasonable and conforms to the rigorous model operation logic, he will admit the rationality of the final deduced result.

Moreover, Li Leshan is far more familiar with Microsoft's development process than outsiders. If this successful case is explained by Zhou Zhi's theory, it is no longer accidental, but inevitable.

This is also in line with Li Leshan's perception of Microsoft, but his previous feeling was "I know he will succeed, but I don't know why he will succeed".

And the feeling now is: "Sure enough, there is no success without a reason in the world, and behind the development of things, there are deep-seated reasons."

Thinking of this, Li Leshan said with a smile: "I also provided some help at the beginning of Microsoft's establishment, as a small shareholder, we can use this theory to threaten Lao Bi, if he doesn't become your recommender, we will send this to you." A set of theories was released to the public, breaking his wealth code!"

Of course he was joking, but it seems that Li Leshan has already gained a lot of confidence in lobbying Microsoft.

However, Zhou Zhi's reaction made Li Leshan never think: "As a minority shareholder of Microsoft, can I make demands on Microsoft?"

"Huh?" Li Leshan was stunned for a moment: "It also depends on the shareholders. Now Microsoft's shareholding structure is quite complicated..."

"Is the largest shareholder of tradable shares the kind that can make demands?" Zhou Zhi continued to entangle on this issue.

"The largest shareholder of tradable shares can affect the stock price trend, so he can naturally make some reasonable demands." Li Leshan used "you" here, of course he didn't think it was Zhou Zhi's own power: "Who are you talking about? Have you successfully lobbied him?"

"Uh... this man's name is George Darwin."