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The history of mobile phone short messages

Every technology, its development purpose is to overcome some difficulties, in this sense, technology should be useful. Videophone technology is certainly useful, and it is becoming more and more useful. For example, under the wave of globalization, multinational enterprises with branches in different regions can save the trouble of gathering people from all over the world with this technology. There are more and more manned spaceflight projects and their duration is getting longer and longer. Astronauts in space can meet their families by videophone, even TV viewers who have nothing to do with them will find it very touching. For another example, a mobile communication expert who has never known the purpose of a mobile phone will take out his mobile phone by the wishing spring in Rome and share his excitement with friends far away. Dominic Binks of Scientific Generics, a mobile communication software company in Cambridge Science Park, admitted that he would like to see how his children are doing at home during his business trip. -Why do we need to develop communication technology? We just want to keep in touch and strengthen communication through it. Quoting an advertisement of a mobile phone company, the "connector" is the connector. Video phone technology fully meets this requirement, but it goes one step further, providing images in addition to sound, and as a result, it hits the wall that people are used to. When translating the above-mentioned advertising slogans into Chinese, the translator also goes one step further and becomes "people-oriented in science and technology".

"People-oriented" is a big concept, even a philosophy, pointing out that although technology can develop infinitely, we cannot forget the root of "people" and the position that technology is only an auxiliary means. On one hand, people's habits can be changed. It is true that modern science and technology provide great convenience for daily life, so that people rely on these technologies more and more, start to change some habits, and even gradually get bound by them. For example, at present, the most common way to pay parking fees is to put coins into the timer set in the parking place or swipe the card. However, Dr. Binks, an expert in mobile communication software, for example, said that at present, the proportion of payment by mobile phone in Croatia has reached 30%, and it has reached 50% in Estonia, which shows that people have quickly accepted this new technology and a new habit is taking shape.

There are also examples that happen around us: mobile phone users are at a loss when they lose their cell phone signal, once there is no power, we feel that we can't do anything, and computer crashes may cause users to panic, and so on. So there is an embarrassing saying that modern coincidental income is convenient to describe the problems caused by technical failures. On the other hand, at least so far, "people" is still fundamental, and a line has been subtly and clearly set on the question of whether the more advanced the technology, the better. Once this line is exceeded, no matter how advanced the technology is, we must try our best to bypass it. In other words, many technologies have gone beyond the stage of solving the most basic needs, from "giving charcoal in the snow" to "icing on the cake"; The former is welcomed by almost everyone, while the latter usually has a lot of concerns, because the recipients don't necessarily need it, so there are reasons for concern. The question "The more advanced the technology, the better?" It's getting harder and harder to answer.

In London, Bertie, a mobile communication expert, admits that their work has become a bit like psychologists, and besides technology, they have to consider psychological factors. Only in this way can we accurately predict which business will have what kind of development prospects. It happened that people's psychology is the most elusive. For example, the mobile phone short message service, he said, came out as early as 1982, but it didn't catch on until recent years, and no one can tell the reason. In Cambridge Science Park, I asked Dr Binks, a mobile communication software expert. As a software company attached to 3G services, what do they think of the conflict between people's habits and 3G videophones? Will 3G service get stuck? He said it might be changed to let people choose whether images appear when they answer the phone. But it takes time.