When the Internet was introduced into China as a new technology, almost all elites devoted themselves to business, and money became the only criterion to measure success and social value. In this social background, the Internet, which comes like an elf, is purely regarded as a redemption tool to create wealth and a means of business development. In the hands of the first generation of Internet entrepreneurs, the works regarded as "bibles" are toffler's The Third Wave and Negroponte's Digital Survival. The business optimism contained in it echoes the prevailing Darwinian trend of thought in China society, leaving an indelible money temperament for the Internet in China. Born in the spirit of hippies, the Internet is "out of her wits" in China.
Therefore, reading the book Seeing the Future, which is about to come out, is a very wonderful and peculiar trip to the Internet. Joy chen talked with 70 American Internet personalities with different personalities with great interest, which was not only the collision and stimulation of thoughts, but also the long scroll presentation of the evolution history of American Internet thoughts. The future will never happen automatically. It was born on the ruins of a broken old world. On this earth, there will always be a group of bigots who destroy the old order, create new species, and then become obsolete in history.