The "pig" of the Internet really fell
Gone are the traffic bonuses! Three years ago, the industry actually sent out various intensive signals. At that time, both BAT and some economists had predicted three years ago that the traffic pattern of the Internet had failed, and it would never return.
Our generation, which was once in the tide of the Internet, has joys, sorrows and emotions. 4-5 years ago, many programmers would find that working in one place for a year and then jumping to another company would at least double their salary. In fact, this is not a manifestation of ability, it is just that we have caught up with the "window" of Internet fluency bonuses and venture capital bonuses. "Even old sows can climb trees when they catch up with the wind" is not an exaggeration to describe the situation at that time. But this "wind" really passed this time, so this "pig" fell, and this time it fell quite hard, and it fell directly into a meatloaf.
Changes in business models, ecology, and the environment are the wheels of the times. As we grow up and mature in the Internet age, we cannot change the changes in the environment. The only thing we can do is how to "adapt" to it.
Some CS (Computer Science) professional colleagues who are often in the IOT, equipment, and 2C industries have actually divided programmers into three levels:
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Domain experts - this group of people is not only proficient in a certain vertical field, but also can directly use computers to implement various problems in this field. For example: Atmospheric particle density monitoring, digital medical treatment, astronomical computing, to do IT in this field, you are first of all very familiar with this field and the knowledge in this field, and even a "business expert" in this field;
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Application programmers - real computer applications, computer software development that serves the purpose of various life in human society, famous ones include: CAD drawing software, smart furniture, medical equipment development, Internet of Things IOT field development, etc.;
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Internet programmers - this type of programmers have extremely single skills, either only know JAVA, or only know front-end development, or know big data but don't understand background development or front-end development. The business knowledge I understand is also limited to some business logic in the 3C industry. What you earn is mainly the dividends of the virtual economy, also known as others printing money, and you bend down to pick up the steel jumpers that fall on the ground , that is: us in this article! .
Therefore, in the current situation, there are too many Internet programmers, which has led to the arrival of the "cold winter" of the Internet industry. Even the industry has described Internet programmers as "industrial workers" , that is, a group of people with a large number of people who can be recruited and left as soon as they come .
So, as "industrial workers with a single type of work" under the layout of various "investment and financing" models when the virtual economy was booming, can we just watch ourselves as jobless? Because we can't change the environment, can't we rely on our own efforts to change ourselves to adapt to the future?
The answer is yes! Know yourself and the enemy and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. So in order to understand the metaverse, let's first look at what the metaverse is.
The Metaverse and the technologies involved in the Metaverse
When it comes to Metaverse, many people think of VR, AR, games? is that so?
If you think so, you are wrong . Metaverse is not just about entertainment and social networking, the "scourge" that parents born in the 70s and 80s or parents born in the 70s and 80s say. It has been elevated to the level of industrial strategy and economic strategy, so let us understand what the real Metaverse is.
What is the metaverse and why
The metaverse originated from the science fiction novel "Avalanche" in 1992. The author Neal Stephenson described a virtual parallel digital world (metaverse) in which people live, work and play with Avatars.
But in fact, people who have a little understanding of the science fiction genre know that this framework is called Cyberpunk (Cyberpunk).
And it was Feno Vinci's "True Name and Surname" in 1981 that created this genre.
"Avalanche" just created the word metaverse to name cyberspace.
When the pace comes to 2021, the entire industry ushers in the "first year" of the Metaverse
The metaverse has a very important core compendium also known as the "guidelines"
"It cannot be completely separated from the real world, it is parallel to the real world, interoperable with it but independent of the real world, where people can socialize and work in real ways"
Metaverse has 4 core features
So we know that the metaverse is not just an entertainment, social product. The most representative definition of "Metaverse" is: "Metaverse" is a virtual space that is parallel to the real world and independent of the real world. It is an online virtual world that reflects the real world. It is an increasingly real digital virtual world. world. In comparison, "Wikipedia"'s description of "Metaverse" is more in line with the new characteristics of "Metaverse": physical reality enhanced by virtual reality, showing the characteristics of convergence and physical persistence, based on the future Internet, with connection awareness and a 3D virtual space of shared features.
The Metaverse is not just a game, nor is it just a digital virtual world. In the future, the Metaverse will be a huge world where the virtual and the real coexist! The digital virtual world will be far larger than the physical world. Under the grand concept of virtual reality symbiosis, the universe should be only a physical part of the metaverse, and even parallel universes are only a part of the metaverse.
Therefore, in order to solve these problems, we need to experience the experience of being in the mirror and restore the interface of human beings in real life as much as possible or even 100% for human beings. And in the metaverse, people are not isolated from each other, but can communicate with each other and are operable. There are also very advanced requirements for the senses of the body. What the metaverse satisfies is not only people's "visual experience" , such as some skin sense, taste, hearing sensors.
At the same time, because this is a "parallel society" in the metaverse, it also has a social order and a financial system. This financial system cannot be said to be completely virtual, because there will be many "virtual" commodities in the metaverse. I put the virtual here in quotation marks because it is not like in some games: legendary swords, god-level guns.
Items in the metaverse are equivalent to items in the real world, such as: coupon QR code, movie ticket, doctor's report on my diagnosis, my course grades, etc. Therefore, it will have a complete "financial system". Of course, on top of this metaverse financial system, "further virtual" items above the virtual will definitely be developed, such as: metaverse currency, metaverse exchange rate .
At the same time, the underlying problems that need to be solved in the metaverse must be technologies such as computer hardware, network transmission, and big data storage.
A standard metaverse must meet these 6 criteria
Along with these 6 principles, the 8 core technologies of the Metaverse were born, and they are:
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Immersive
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virtual image
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family space
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long-distance transmission
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Interoperability
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privacy security
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Virtual item
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natural interface
At present, the whole society has reached the critical point of metaverse
On December 21, at the Digital Smart Life Forum of the 2022 China Unicom Partner Conference, China Unicom announced the Metaverse strategy and established the Metaverse Innovation Industry Alliance.
China Unicom stated that it will firmly establish the seven engine bases of network, computing power, AI, data, digital identity, 3D, and XR, and build an integrated platform from base to application to fully realize cloud network capabilities, platform capabilities, and X applications. The deep coupling of capabilities drives the overall development of the industry.
At the forum, Jia Zhiqiang, general manager of Unicom Online Information Technology Co., Ltd., said that the development strategy of China Unicom Metaverse is based on the new development stage, implements new development concepts, builds a new development pattern, and closely follows China Unicom's new positioning, new strategy, and new main business. Construct a new ecosystem of Metaverse.
In terms of strengthening the foundation, temper the seven major engines, build the metaverse base, and build a digital information infrastructure to operate the national team.
In terms of integrity and innovation, build a metaverse platform to drive industrial development, and be the main force in building a strong network country, a digital China, and a smart society.
In terms of integration and opening up, integrate industry alliances, create a new industrial ecology, and be the vanguard of digital technology integration and innovation.
The epidemic has accelerated the virtualization of society, changes in people's understanding, life migration, a series of factors such as the state of exception to normality have completely changed people's lives, and the most important thing is the "underlying technology" in the computer Internet, 5G-6G, quantum Decisive breakthroughs have been made in communications, cloud, and biomedicine. So the metaverse is not a fairy tale or a science fiction novel at all, it has really arrived.
The essence of the entire metaverse is an IOT form, that is, the Internet of Everything (in everything: including people). Of course, don’t think that the author means to encourage people to install brain-computer interfaces (although the author is a radical technology fanatic and is willing to become the first batch of matrix, let’s talk about it based on objective facts, ha ha). Almost all industries surrounding the metaverse are undergoing fundamental changes rather than will. The Academy of Social Sciences has released a panorama of China's IOT industry. The timing of the release of this panorama is very interesting. It is before 12.16, one week before the 12.21 China Unicom Partner Conference Digital Life Forum. The panorama map is as follows
We can see that this panorama is actually the next "Internet". It is not coming but has already arrived.
What "traditional" IT can do
I call the Internet IT of our era "traditional", because there was a generation before that called Legacy.
Our generation of Internet programmers has foundation, technology, and experience. The entire next-generation Internet does not "remove" the Internet. On the contrary, it further strengthens the practicability of the existing Internet, and returns the 3C industry and the virtual economy to their essence instead of the "crazy" form. Therefore, The technology involved tends to be more rational, realistic, objective and simple.
So around the 8 core technologies of the metaverse based on the Internet of Everything, I drew such a picture. I think this picture is completely applicable to our "traditional" IT for reference.
The arrival of the metaverse has brought about innovations in UI, UX, and user interface experience
The previous UI and UX focused on the design of APP, PAD, and advertising interface, but in Metaverse we pay attention to "cyberpunk", even close to and restore the real scene. Some "metaverse" people like to show everything in "animated CG" and some like "real things". Therefore, UI and UX can start to learn and change their own design style in a targeted manner at this time, making it closer to the style of the corresponding material in the Metaverse. In this way, when the opportunity comes, you can quickly switch your "runway" to catch up with this wave of "wind".
Correspondingly, a new generation of graphics engine has become an imminent thing for graphics programming personnel. Learning and mastering the corresponding graphics engine and graphics algorithm is a "living way" for the current transformation.
The essence of the metaverse is built on the infrastructure of large-scale cloud
When the cloud appeared, the infrastructure we thought of was IDC. Therefore, DevOps with hybrid operation and maintenance of IDC, CDC and cloud is very popular. When the metaverse comes, AI OPS, hybrid cloud, further large-scale cloud operation and maintenance, usage skills and capabilities are definitely worth cultivating from now on. Similarly, to support these larger-scale hybrid cloud operation and maintenance models, a large number of hardware, firewalls, gateways, and routes that are different from traditional IOE will be born, and will be replaced by hardware infrastructure such as base stations, 5G, 6G, and Weixin Communications. , These are a large number of opportunities in the industrial and 3C industries.
The users of the metaverse are also people in the real world, so the metaverse has spawned a new generation of biology
Colleagues who have watched "Chuang. Legacy", American TV series "Upload Life", "Ready Player One" or the earlier Matrix should remember that one of the most mentioned scenes in the film is to electronically store information in people's minds. Transformed into an electronic scene or even another body. In fact, this has been demonstrated technically, and the core technology to realize such transmission is called "quantum transmission and quantum communication".
The human brain can be quantized, and the body can be quantized. But in fact, more of them are in the field of biomedicine.
How can you fulfill your wish after being quantized? Do people need anesthesia during the quantization process? Quantized people are actually alive, how to maintain the life of the noumenon?
I suggest everyone to watch the latest American drama, "The Edge of the World" directed by Nolan. What is said in the play is that there are two bodies, one is the ontology, and the other is a "prosthetic body" that can be downloaded at any time.
Likewise, the Metaverse gave birth to a new generation of medicine and perfected it. More than 20 years ago and nearly 30 years ago, medical treatment had already made revolutionary progress in this area.
Before I graduated, I was engaged in this research. It is called DICOM, as shown in the picture below. In fact, the "films" that come out after you go to the hospital for CT and MR nuclear magnetic resonance are all in DICOM format.
It can be directly transmitted to the dedicated medical solid-screen display on the doctor's desktop for display.
Generally, what is taken by ordinary CT is flat, and what is taken by MR or CR is "3D". This 3D image also has a function of "computer vision rendering of lesion tissue". Therefore, DICOM is also used in the diagnosis of early "cancerous changes", which can help doctors intervene in advance of cancerous changes before they get worse.
In the early days, some of my brothers also experimented with "remote surgery with robotic hands", that is, the doctor is thousands of miles away, and the "mechanical hand" controlled by him is the one who performs the surgery on the spot. This is not science fiction and mythology. Experimented. Even a "go-live/pre-production rehearsal" for tomorrow's surgery on the "virtual human".
With the rise of metaverse technology, this method will eventually mature. The automatic surgical medical warehouse we saw in the movie "Prometheus" is right in front of us, and it will definitely be realized.
Correspondingly, the holographic image technology in "Star Wars" has also matured. In the metaverse, remote consultation and pre-diagnosis can be realized within the past five years.
You can even have AI-assisted 24-hour physical monitoring in the metaverse. These will bring a huge revolution to the medical biology and make it further benefit human beings.
The metaverse and finance have actually begun to "collide"
In the early years, Xiaozhu did mutual funds - that is, FINTECH. Piggy was already experimenting with things like this by then:
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When the bank handles the loan, it can identify whether the applicant has "lied" to some questions asked by the bank staff through the telephone or even face-to-face conversation on the spot;
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When talking through a three-dimensional holographic image in the metaverse, predict fraudulent claims and false insurance items through changes in the skin temperature of the other party's body surface;
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With 3D holography, you can also handle financial services that require "face-to-face signing" in areas without outlets;
Correspondingly, there are also the financial system and currency system in the metaverse, and the blockchain brought by it (it is not a speculative coin but a "cosmic currency" that really has a practical effect).
The security field is full of opportunities
Metaverse is a real world, and its security involves biometric information security such as: iris, palmprint, face, and even breath recognition.
And when the metaverse enters the "quantum transmission of people's consciousness", if a safe event occurs at this time, it will really kill people.
Therefore, in the traditional IT security field, there are many needs to combine some biological characteristics, some innovative technologies, and new policies and regulations, etc. These are all promising areas in the security field.
There are so many equipment development, calls and surrounding software
Surrounding the metaverse, there are hundreds of millions of wearable devices, sensor devices and the central control software, perception, consciousness collection software, real-time monitoring software, and collaborative software surrounding them far exceed the Internet in the past 20 years. 3C products and APP products of the era.
And in this field, it has long been no longer distinguished what you are Java, I am developing a small program APP, and he is developing big data. We are "segregated by job type" from each other. The common situation in this industry is that an IT programmer takes into account the above abilities at the same time. Because in the metaverse or the world of IOT, any small application such as temperature control sensors and ECG electrocardiograms used in the medical field involves real-time performance far beyond that of user tracking, commodity list, and flash kills on any app. comparable.
For example, I bought a 6-axis flight control gyroscope, which can be controlled by Android. When it is running, the data entering the computer in one minute reaches 4G. This is just a client and the drone I play by myself.
This is something that can be solved by separate development of big data, Java, and front-end in traditional fields. I often see ordinary engineers in this field soldering iron with one hand, typing keyboard with one hand, a laptop, a 128GB desktop, running IDE, Android Studio, Linux, Flink, Doris, Redis, and finally passed a few days. Zhou made a sensor + device.
Summarize
The Metaverse isn't some utopian myth , it's already happening.
The metaverse is not just for entertainment and games , it is destined to be the way people live in the future, just like we are used to using mobile phones now.
The metaverse is not possible but already here .
The future is promising, and opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared!
The future has come, can you come or not!