Good technology should help human beings to challenge their limits. In this 99% unknown world, in fact, how to further combine human beings with technology, there are always too many creations waiting for us.
In the creation of technology globalization with uneven quality, the competition of technology itself is not only in technology research and development, application practice and business, but the more fundamental competition lies in the philosophical and cosmological differences of technicians. For human beings, every process of combining technology and progress originates from ideological inspiration, and it is also our continuous source of strength.
In the past history of human science and technology, a man with a genius-like creativity, Steve Jobs, brought us countless surprises, every time he was dazzling, but his premature departure was really a loss. The study of excellent technicians and reflection on their own thinking system can help to build our own philosophical universe. We know that the magic of the universe is that it is the source of all power, and the same is true of our philosophical universe, which is itself a method .
It can be said that the technical direction that a person is engaged in is related to the foundation of passion and has no direct relationship with the technology itself. Let's look at a passage of Jobs. In 1995, Robert Colinley, a well-known American technology reporter, interviewed Jobs.
Jobs: When I was a kid, I read an article in Scientific American magazine that compared the moving efficiency of different species on earth, such as bears, orangutans, raccoons, birds, fish, etc., and calculated the cost of each kilometer they move. heat, and humans. In the end, the vulture won, and its movement efficiency was the highest, as the human being, the spirit of all things, was ranked last. But the magazine specifically measured the efficiency of humans riding bicycles, and the results left the vultures far behind in the rankings. This article left a deep impression on me, humans are good at inventing tools, and tools give us wonderful abilities.
Apple used to have an ad: the computer is the bicycle of the mind. I firmly believe that if the future
Looking back on human history, the computer will be one of the greatest inventions of mankind, and I consider myself very lucky to be involved in this invention in Silicon Valley. This is like drawing a geometric vector. If you miss it by the slightest at the beginning, the result will be a thousand miles away. We are just getting started, as long as we find the right direction, it will be very smooth in the future. We have tried several times, and the results are very satisfactory.
A good technological product is the embodiment of collective wisdom, and the collective endows it with more advantages. In Jobs' interviews, he was so eloquent about his product and team.
There are musicians on the Macintosh team, there are poets, artists, zoologists, historians, and these people also understand computers, which is why the Macintosh is so good. Without computers, they would also do wonders in other fields. Everyone contributes their own expertise, and the Macintosh thus absorbs good results from various fields, otherwise it is likely to be a very narrow product.
Note: Macintosh is a computer designed by Apple
Returning to the issue of the direction development of technical products that we talked about, the author believes that technicians, here, should avoid the "only technical direction theory", because the starting point of technology cannot be "so-called correct" as the basis of the cosmology of technicians. Such an angle is too one-sided and narrow. The choice of direction must be based on the reality of the universe. Although compared with the technical aspect, it seems to be realistic, in fact, the technology itself is only virtual and not real. We will leave this issue in the follow-up article to further elaborate. The author believes that the relationship between the real universe and technology belongs to the relationship between the whole and the part, and the real universe is actually a relatively large and empty concept. This concept needs to be supported by philosophy, technology and other related systems. The philosophy of the universe is based on the existence of reality. The product technology direction is also based on the thinking of this cosmology.
The author's point of view can be said to be related to technology rather than technology. The reasons for this are, firstly, that the author does not want these thoughts to be associated with concrete things related to technical level and technology management; secondly, the author hopes to bring philosophy and so on back to technology itself through thinking, for example, technology is related to technology. How are philosophy, psychology, etc. connected internally? Another example is whether technology creation should be as romantic as poetry creation, and whether technology can bypass its inherent logic and become a technical creation together with other poems, music, and art that affect people. The fantasy magic of the future.