Yesterday, I saw an interesting question on Zhihu’s hot search list. Some netizens asked: Will the computer industry become the next civil engineering?
At first glance, many people say that this issue is an insult to the computer industry, but people in our industry should not be too sensitive. After all, as we all know, our industry is indeed in a bottleneck period after rapid development. Layoffs are the hallmark.
We all know that the domestic Internet industry has experienced a golden period of 20 years of rapid development since the era of portal websites and experienced the era of mobile Internet. Now facing the trend of disappearing dividends, intensifying competition, and elitism, it may become more complicated in the future. Therefore, it is not surprising that everyone has this kind of thinking, it is normal.
However, I feel that the computer industry will not be the next civil engineering industry for the following reasons:
The computer industry, especially the Internet industry, is a virtual economy, while civil engineering is a real economy. The role of the real economy is hard to change, and it is stereotyped and qualitative. Based on the real world, its resources and markets are limited, so it can only It can engage in infrastructure construction and building houses, but because computer technology and the Internet industry are virtual, there are many changes and many tricks. If you look at the development of the past 20 years, the first 10 years are the era of portal Internet, that is, the era of web 1.0. In 2010 In the following ten years, we entered the mobile Internet era and the web 2.0 era. Up to now, although the mobile Internet has come to an end, the metaverse and artificial intelligence have become popular again, and it may start another decade in the future, or even 20 years is also very likely.
Moreover, there are many application scenarios of computer technology. For example, in the future, we may enter the era of the Internet of Things, where all things are intelligently connected.
Therefore, there are many application scenarios and a wide range, and computer technology and other industries will interact and integrate. Computer majors cover a wide range of fields and are closely integrated with other majors.
In the final analysis, a computer is a tool. In the future, all walks of life may need computer assistance, but civil engineering cannot achieve this kind of tool.
However, it seems that the future is bright. In fact, with the development of technology, the computer industry has also encountered some paradoxes.
Although computers will not become the next civil engineering, I don't know if you have discovered it? At present, the IT industry has entered a period of steady development. Due to the oversupply of manpower, there has been an obvious phenomenon of involution, and the threshold of the industry has been continuously raised. , will become less and less, and the requirements for practitioners' professional skills will become more and more stringent and higher.
In the current and future days, if you are engaged in development in the IT industry and do not have any real knowledge, I am afraid it will be difficult to stay in the technical post for a long time. Due to the fierce competition, the "old man" must have no unique skills in technology. He will definitely be overthrown by the younger generation and eliminated...
You see, as the industry enters a plateau, the threshold is rising? However, the paradox lies in the development of technology, which is obviously lowering the threshold. For example, the birth of the large model ChatGPT, the birth of this smart tool, lowered the development threshold, but the industry’s entry threshold has begun to increase. up?
There is a problem behind this: the threshold of the main computer industry will become higher and higher, while other industries that rely on computer technology will lower the threshold of other jobs that require computer assistance. That is to say, with the birth of intelligent tools, other industries will connect to the Internet. It will become very simple, professional computer personnel are no longer needed, and the connection with the Internet can be achieved, and even the transformation of the digital economy can be achieved.
To put it simply: the development threshold of the main industry of computer is actually higher, and computer aided and other industries involved seem to have a wide range of applications, but they have little to do with people who learn computers, and cannot solve more problems. people's employment. Because programmers are a very interesting group, they are using technology to revolutionize their own lives, and lowering the threshold is to make computer technology popular and accessible to every ordinary person.
This change requires vigilance and consideration for those who want to work in the computer industry and the Internet industry.
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