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Author: cdixon
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At a media meeting[1] in 2007, a reporter scoffed at the latest Apple touch-screen mobile phone that Jobs showed.
It doesnt work at all, he said.
Jobs was slightly taken aback, and tilted his head. The reporter went on to say that he needs to type all the time and the keys are too small for his thumb.
Jobs smiled and said, Your thumb will get used to it. So will you.
When the iPhone came out in 2007, it once confused its competitors[2]. Its like an outlier. At that time, the wireless network was slow, smartphone users only used physical keyboards, and there were no software developers to develop apps for touch-screen phones. It also keeps dropping calls when making calls.
But the iPhone is so dazzling that fruit fans praise it as the Machine God-a mobile phone that changed the world. Operators data packages are getting bigger and bigger, product managers and interaction designers are designing more and more apps, and users fingertips are flying on the touch screen. At the same time, Apple is also constantly updating, fixing bugs and adding functions.
The development of smart phones has confirmed a paradigm of human technological development: new technologies always appear in pairs, one strong and one weak. for example:
Powerful energy technology can greatly stimulate the imagination of technology enthusiasts, so many important technologies have sprouted from geek hobbies on weekends. True enthusiasts bet on their own time[3], and unlike most business people, they bet earlier and farther ahead. They create rules, make the best use of everything, and design the ideal technology to the best of their ability. Some of them run big companies, and like Jobs, they tend to be ambitious, broad-minded, and ambitious.
The mainstream tech world often wants to understand and keep up with these energies, but fails to truly accept and embrace them. For people of the disadvantaged generation, strong energy technology is just some unscrupulous, unrealistic, cheap, immature and even unsafe fun[4]. Therefore, more people tend to accept the compromised weak energy technology, which is easier to use, efficient, serious and safe.
Powerful energy technologies usually follow the Perez/Gartner Hype Cycle [5]:
In the same way, if we analyze and identify various technologies and windows in the Web 3.0 world from the perspective of strong energy-weak energy, we may be able to better open our horizons:
During the trough bubble period, people who invest in strong energy technologies may lose patience and turn to believe in more mainstream weak energy technologies. This just misses the future.
Still, weak energy technologies have their place. Augmented reality, for example, is likely to be extremely popular for broadcasting sports events.
But only powerful energy technologies can define the next era. George Bernard Shaw once said a famous saying that applies to people as well as technology:
Those who know current affairs adapt to the world; those who do not know current affairs want the world to adapt to themselves.
And often these fools bring about progress in the world.
The same goes for technology. Weak energy technologies can adapt to the world and return the world to its original appearance; strong energy technologies can adapt the world to itself and drive human beings to progress. And youll get used to them, just like your thumb.
