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

Chapter 5 Introduction: It is closely related, who will take the lead (1)
Who will your phone turn you into?

After visiting Beijing, the president of a well-known university in Hong Kong lamented that the cultural level of the capital is still high. No matter which unit you go to, the security guards at the gate will ask you three questions:

"Who are you?

where are you from?
where do you want to go? "

How do you answer such a profound ultimate question?

Even the doorman is a philosopher, Beijing is really good!
——Reposted from mobile phone text messages

Indeed, this is an essential problem that no one, anything, any group, or any tool can avoid. It is this kind of fundamental thinking that makes human beings fundamentally different from other animals.

When a person asks himself: who am I?why am i alive

This person is out of the animal nature of living to live.

Man is the only creature that commits suicide because he can't figure out why he is alive.

Man is a creature who wishes to define the world eternally like God.

Therefore, a kind of annoying exam questions accompany us throughout our study life: noun explanation.

I wrote this book to try to give my own noun interpretation answer:

What is a cell phone?
What is the world?
What is the message?
How to grasp the future?

What's your stake in any of this?
The answer can vary.

It is those different answers that determine different behaviors, and also determine our different successes, failures, sorrows and joys.

The main research thinking throughout this book is three inquiries:

What is a cell phone?
What is the use of the mobile phone?

What kind of values ​​will mobile phones bring?

The world is just a few symbols, diagrams and formulas
A philosopher said: The world is matter, and matter determines consciousness.

A Zen master said: The world is not moving, but the heart is moving.

A poet said: What you see is not the world, and what you cannot see is not necessarily the world. The world is just like that, and the word that cannot be spoken is the world.

The world is relationships: natural relationships, human relationships, spiritual and physical relationships.Once you understand the relationship, you will find the law, and then you will be free.The greatest freedom is to be able to do everything with ease.Unleash the infinitely broad free space in the most restrained crevices, because you have mastered the natural structure of the cow, and you have attained the Tao.The way of heaven is the law of the world, the relationship, and the "related information" that can be summarized through symbols, patterns, formulas, language and other structural methods.Realize that "closely related", the world is just a few symbols, diagrams and formulas.

Man's greatest answers to what the world is are as follows:
* "Book of Changes": The world is Yin and Yang.The binary symbol " " represents the principle of change, prediction, transaction and endless life.This symbol was evolved into "01" in the computer age, and it is also measured as the smallest unit of information: 0 represents 1 bit, and 1 also represents 1 bit. (Leibniz's invention of binary was rumored to have been inspired by the yin and yang of the Chinese Book of Changes, but this has not been proven.)
*In the summer of 1666, Newton was hit on the head by an apple, and he said:
The world is universal gravitation, which can be expressed as F=ma.

*In 1869, Mendeleev said:
The world is a periodic table, arranged by the atomic number of elements.The smallest rank is first, a horizontal row is called a period, and a column is called a family.

Mendeleev's periodic table of elements

*Einstein said:
The world is relative, E=mc2.Thus the atomic bomb was born.

*On April 2003, 4, more than 14 scientists from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and China completed a study known as the "Moon Landing Project" of life sciences, answering the question of the nature of human life. A "Human Genome Map".

human genetic map
This picture, through the large-scale sequencing of 23 pairs of human chromosome DNA, enables us to have a comprehensive understanding of the heredity, purpose, evolution, pathology, and comprehensiveness of our own lives. Maybe we will live forever because of this in the future.

Just on May 2010, 5, American scientist Craig Venter created a synthetic, self-replicating biological cell body with a computer based on his own DNA gene research, named "Synthia" (Synthia). , meaning "artificial child").This is the first life species coded by humans, and Claire Venter has finally replaced God as the real creator.

Only by mastering the essence of the world (that is, information), can we use knowledge to create a new world.From information to knowledge, wisdom makes everything it touches a treasure.

The ore has always been there, and the ancestors could only use these stones to smash wild animals, because they did not know that there were copper, iron, gold, and silver in the stones, and humans at that time could not smelt steel from the ore.

Coal and oil have also been sleeping, they are all useless waste, until the principles of heat, light, and electricity conversion are recognized by humans.The emergence of a batch of formulas has made many Arabs in the deserts of the Middle East the richest people in the world, because oil is today's gold.

Xiao Ke, a musician, told me that he didn't know why the ancient Chinese only spoke the "five tones" instead of the "seven tones" like the West.He was invited to write a song for the Beijing Olympics, and he asked for it to be simple and easy to sing, and the melody should be beautiful.After careful study, he realized that any combination of the five tones of "Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu" is harmonious and beautiful, and the simplest combination is these five tones.So he created "Beijing Welcomes You" according to this rule. The rhythm corresponds to the five tones. As a result, people all over the country love to sing and can sing.When you play the piano, if you only touch the black keys and never touch the white keys, the melody will always be beautiful, and no one will believe that you don't understand music at all.Because the black key is the fifth tone that is always harmonious.The reason why you can use limited five tones to create unlimited music is because you can grasp the essential laws of the sound world.

In fact, the essence of life lies in the information coding combination of different DNA genes.Metagenes were created by God, but since the deciphering of the "Human Gene Map", scientists who can encode metagenes with computers have become gods.

For a person's growth, heredity determines what talent you are "suited for", and acquired interests determine your attitude towards what you are "willing" to do.Deciphering DNA, finding out where everyone's talent is, and guiding and cultivating his interest in this area in a targeted manner may be the main responsibility of education.

Darwin said: "All things compete, survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest." In essence, the competition of life is an endless war of information expansion, which is the gene duplication and evolution between different species or different groups and individuals of the same species. contention for resources.

The extinction and inheritance of genes represent despair and hope.

The original instinct of life is to let the genes "live" forever through living in the flesh.Mating and procreation are actually the greatest and primitive information industry.The love of offspring is the sacred religion, the worship of hope.The value of the Chinese people is: "There are three kinds of unfilial piety, the greatest is to have no offspring." Children are the future Buddha.The cause of nurturing children is called "Hope Project".

Every life has the obligation to pass on the incense of "gene".Because in order to pass on the incense of hope, the ancestors have endured countless hardships and pains, endured many natural and man-made disasters, experienced wars, floods, famines, earthquakes, and plagues, and may have betrayed their consciences.It's better to die than to live, but if you refuse to pass on this hope when it's your turn, you will disappoint your ancestors.

From the perspective of information inheritance to understand the so-called successful model of life, there are only two:
One is to have more children, allowing your DNA to evolve and continue in as many physical bodies as possible.Iconic figure: Genghis Khan.According to expert statistics, 1600 million men around the world are his descendants.

Case
1600 million men around the world are descendants of Genghis Khan[1]
In 2003, the "Oxford Ancestors" company organized multinational genetic research scholars to collect blood samples from 16 ethnic groups in and around the territory of the Genghis Khan Empire, including China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia.It was found that 8% of the males had the same segment of the Y chromosome in their genes.From a genetic point of view, women have two X chromosomes; men have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome.This unique Y chromosome is passed down through male ancestors, and mutations in the Y chromosome are also retained.But in general, if males have the same Y chromosome, it's safe to say they share a common ancestry.Discovering that there are so many men with the same Y chromosome in the study, the researchers began to trace the common ancestors of these people.According to the final argument, their common ancestor came from between the 12th and 13th centuries; plus these people all came from the land that Genghis Khan conquered that year, the researchers guessed that Genghis Khan was this "common ancestor".The hill tribes of Pakistan's Hazara have passed down oral traditions for centuries, claiming to be descended from Genghis Khan.Scientists analyzed the chromosome fragments of the men in the tribe and found that they actually had the same Y chromosome fragment.Therefore, Genghis Khan's "super Y chromosome" is almost recognized in the field of genetics.The research team then announced the results, announcing that according to this ratio, 1600 million men in the world are descendants of Genghis Khan. In June 2004, Brian Sykes, a professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, published his book "Adam's Curse" on the study of the male Y chromosome, in which he claimed that Genghis Khan may be the most successful "seeding man" in history. By".

The second is to create beautiful knowledge and ideas, so that your name can last forever and have a long-lasting influence, so that your spiritual DNA can be passed on in more spiritual memories.Role model: Confucius.The Confucianism he created has dominated Chinese civilization for more than 2000 years, and Confucius Institutes are still preaching in countries all over the world.

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Information is the essence of the world.

Information is the law of nature.

Find the internal relationship between all things, the more accurate and wider the "closely related" mastered, the stronger the ability of human beings to predict and create the world.

At the same time, information must exist in a certain carrier, and these carriers or media are tangible substances.

The reason why matter and information can move is because of energy.The imbalance of energy distribution makes high energy transfer to low energy, and the universe moves.Once the energy balance, the universe will be "dead."Without motion, time would disappear in eternal "stillness".

Information is the purpose, matter is the carrier, and energy is the driving force.

These three elements make up my worldview.

Message: More precious than land and oil
One sentence is worth ten thousand dollars
In 1815, Lord Wellington of England led the coalition forces to a decisive battle with Napoleon of France at Waterloo. The victory or defeat was not only related to the fate and future of the European continent, but also related to the "money career" of a businessman named Rothschild - he was hyping British government bonds.

Napoleon wins, British government bonds become worthless.

If Wellington wins, British government bonds will rise sharply.

Rothschild had already established the best intelligence system for this battle, and it was his people who first brought back the news of Napoleon's defeat and surrender.

How did the message "Britain wins!" translate into wealth?Rothschild sold British government bonds while spreading the news of "Napoleon's victory".People rushed to the exchange to sell British government bonds in a frenzy.At this time, the Rothschild family immediately bought every British government bond that could be seen on the market at a low price.

It was a full day before Lord Wellington's messengers brought news of Napoleon's defeat.British public debt has doubled in value: Rothschild made billions because of a valuable information that was 24 hours ahead, and soon became the financial hegemony in Europe and the world.Recently, Chinese private enterprise Geely Automobile Co., Ltd. Shetunxiang acquired the famous car Volvo. It is rumored that the operator behind it is the Rothschild consortium.Napoleon's Waterloo became Rothschild's Arc de Triomphe!
Information is a more valuable resource than land and mineral energy.It enables human beings to quickly transform those seemingly useless material materials and cultural resources into gold mines of wealth.A history of human civilization is a history of wisdom in which we constantly understand the world, master new knowledge, new ideas, and new information.

Information not only has the characteristics of being codable, analyzable, shareable, transferable, storable, and usable, but also because of its authenticity, timeliness, and targeted application development, it can generate richer information than limited material data. value.

Information is unlimited.The use and sharing of information is also unlimited.The wider the scope and scale of utilization, the lower its cost, and eventually it will approach zero cost.This is the essential difference between the information economy and the real material economy.

The information storm in ZB era

Information is entropy.Can be measured by the quantized unit of bytes. Bit (bit) is the smallest unit of information, "01" or "0" in computer binary 1 is 1 bit.The higher the number of bits, the higher the precision of sound, image and color.The measurement of information is upgraded by a multiple of 1024, and later calculated by 1000 times for the convenience of use.The smallest unit is bit, followed by KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB, and YB.

It is estimated that by 2020, the global data scale will reach 40ZB, which is equivalent to 5200GB of data generated by each person on the planet.

It is estimated that there are about 40 billion grains of sand on all the beaches on the earth, and the data of 57ZB is equivalent to 40 times the total number of sand grains on all the beaches on the earth.If all the data of 424ZB is stored in the existing Blu-ray disc, its weight is equivalent to [-] Nimitz aircraft carriers when it is not packaged in a box.

The consumption and growth of information will far exceed the growth of human beings in the field of material consumption.The digestive ability and needs of the human mind will greatly exceed the demand of the stomach and intestines, and human beings will definitely shift from physical satisfaction to psychological and spiritual enjoyment.

Information big data resources have surpassed land, energy, and minerals, and have become the most core strategic resources for human survival and development.

The U.S. government has officially announced the establishment of a cyber combat force, elevating sovereignty and security in the Internet domain to another national sovereignty after territory, territorial waters, and airspace.

Case
2009年6月23日，美国国防部长盖茨下令组建网络司令部。2013年3月，美国国家安全局局长亚历山大披露，美国网络战司令部正在新增40支网络队伍，其中13支的重点任务是在美国网络遭受攻击时，向其他国家发起进攻性网络攻击。美国网络司令部于2013年将扩编为接近5000人，年度预算达到34亿美元。该司令部于2010年建立时仅有1000人，当年预算也只有1.2亿美元。[2]
Opportunities and Disasters in the Information Age

Two frogs fell in love and got married and gave birth to a toad.

Seeing this, the male frog was furious: "What's the matter with you?"

The female frog cried and said, "Father, I had plastic surgery before I met you."

Conclusion: Information symmetry is important.

——Reposted from mobile phone WeChat Duanzi

In human civilization, research on energy, matter, and information can be focused on: energy conversion issues, material supply and demand issues, and information symmetry issues.

It is mainly scientists who study energy conversion, and the subject is called mathematics, physics and chemistry.Professional terms include: sound, light, heat, electricity; ohm, joule, watt, Hooke, Newton, etc.The biggest consequence: what would happen to the world if there was a global blackout?

Some laws about energy conversion

My point of view is: services that meet people’s practical and physiological needs basically belong to the scope of science and technology. The law of value is that science and technology are people-oriented. The older they are, the less valuable they are, and the newer they are, the more valuable they are.

Services that meet the spiritual needs of people basically belong to the field of religious humanities and arts.The law of value is that the more famous the more valuable, the older the more valuable, and the newer the less valuable, it is a typical information-based experience consumption.

Economists, entrepreneurs and politicians mainly study the relationship between material supply and demand.First of all, who has the final say.Economics is about how to make money, and politics is about how to divide it.Is it the money that decides to make money or the money that makes the money? Everyone has learned a course called "Political Economics".I understood a sentence from it: If you don't understand how to divide money, making money becomes a very dangerous thing.

Then how do the hands of the government and the invisible hands of the market fight each other?Is it a planned economy or a free economy?The most important thing is that "demand exceeds supply" and "oversupply" have a great influence on pricing.The biggest consequence is that everyone wants to change from distribution according to work to distribution according to need.

In fact, the research on the above two issues is inseparable from a more important issue: information symmetry.It is both a source of human suffering and a source of hope.

Scientists who study energy conversion often forget that the more they know, the more symmetrical the information and the greater the achievement, which is not necessarily good news for mankind.For example, scientists have finally cracked the principle of nuclear reactions and achieved a great breakthrough in information symmetry, but for the first time, human beings have the ability and danger of self-destruction.In the era of cold weapons, no matter how bad a person is, it is impossible to kill human beings with a knife, but now just press the launch button, and the world will be destroyed.

Due to the fusion of "supply and demand" and "information symmetry", the economic results of "game theory" have been produced, and a group of outstanding economists have won the Nobel Prize.

Knowledge point

Previous Nobel Prize winners for research on information asymmetry and game theory

1994 Nobel Laureates in Economics: John Harsani, John Nash and Reinhard Selten.They made seminal contributions to the theory of equilibrium analysis of non-cooperative games, which had a major impact on game theory and economics.

1996 Nobel Laureates in Economics: James Millis and William Vickery.The former has made significant contributions in the field of information economics theory, especially the discussion of economic incentive theory under the condition of asymmetric information; the latter has made significant contributions in information economics, incentive theory, game theory, etc.

2001 Nobel Laureates in Economics: George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz for their important contributions to the field of "analysis of markets full of asymmetric information".

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