One mobile phone to conquer the world: mankind's last chance for gold nuggets

Chapter 2 Recommendation Preface [-]: Mobile Revolution ing
Executive Dean and Professor of School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Expert of National E-Commerce Promotion Committee, Fellow of China Society of Communications Lv Tingjie

"What is a mobile phone to you?" This was the first question I asked the audience in October 2007 when I was a guest host on Phoenix Satellite TV's "China and 10G" program.Less than a year later, CCTV invited me as a guest to produce almost the last episode of "Tell the Truth". The theme of this episode is "3G is Coming".It can be seen that the arrival of the mobile Internet tide was already brewing at that time.

Today, China's communication market with more than one billion users has become the world's largest mobile phone market and mobile Internet application market. As Professor Wang Lixin, who has participated in the advertising and planning of Motorola's pager since it entered my country, it can be said that he has witnessed China's mobile communication market for nearly 20 years. Years of unconventional rapid development.Since the planning of the two advertising campaigns of "China Mobile Communications - Mobile Communications Expert" and "Critical Moment Reliance Global Communications" at the beginning of the 21st century, "What will the future mobile phone look like and what services can it provide?" has always been his concern and constant focus. One of the questions I discussed.

In 1876, Alexander Bell invented the landline telephone, mainly to solve the voice communication between people.The emergence of computers has created a demand for man-machine communication. In the 20s, Dr. Klein Rock of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed a packet switching technology to solve man-machine data communication, so the U.S. Department of Defense used this Technology has created the first military data network in history - APARNET, which is the predecessor of the Internet.Thanks to the emergence of personal computers, TCP/IP protocol and Web technology, the Internet began to spread to the world.At the same time as the development of the desktop Internet, it is the period of great development of the second generation of mobile phones.As a result, people naturally associate: "Can we use mobile phones to surf the Internet?"

Due to the use of digital communication technology, the call quality of the mobile communication network in the 2G era has been greatly improved, and the terminal has also evolved from a brick-like "big brother" to a more compact and flexible variety.But the mobile communication technology at this time mainly solves the voice communication between people.In response to market demand, people have successively developed 2.5G (GPRS) and 2.75G (EDGE) solutions that support man-machine communication. The Alliance officially passed the three standards of the third-generation mobile communication, and human society has entered the era of mobile Internet.

The development of communication technology is a convergent superposition mode, from the communication between people to the fusion of communication and computer (C&C), the introduction of control functions (3C), the addition of consumer electronics (4C), and then to the combination of content industry ( 5C), until the fusion with sensing technology forms the Internet of Things (Cyber ​​Physical System). The formation and establishment of the 6C system makes the applications on today's mobile phones ubiquitous (ubiquitization), all-encompassing (ubiquity), and all the time (time fragmentation).

If the traditional communication network is a railway-like system in which the network and business are not separated, then the Internet has completely changed it into a "separation of network and business" architecture.Today's Internet industry is like a road. It may not matter who builds the road, whose car runs on the road, and whose goods are pulled on the car. Therefore, OTTs like WeChat are completely independent of network operators. The business was born.The integration, superposition and independence of mobile Internet applications make the ecosystem of the information industry more open and diversified.For those who are interested in panning for gold in the tide of mobile informatization, this book by Professor Wang Lixin will explain to you the mobile Internet: what, why, and how to do it in a witty, humorous and wise style.

People are the existence of society, and society is the product of people's interaction with each other.Today, we are living in a networked society, an era where network applications are a general condition of work and life.The level of social productivity is increasingly reflected in who can intelligently control various network tools and applications that dazzle us.The emergence and practical application of cloud computing will enable information technology to enter the era of on-demand services and make it more efficient; big data-driven enterprise operations and business model changes also contain many unknown opportunities and challenges.Today, cyberspace has undergone profound changes and will continue to change media, culture, education, medical care, and even the way and form of people's social activities.This reminds me of Gorky's famous saying: Books are the ladder of human progress.Today, mobile phones are becoming an elevator for human progress! The book "A Mobile Phone Conquers the World" is the best instruction for using this elevator.

2013 National Day in Beijing
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