What has science and technology brought us (more than 70 words)

April 1 day,

Google launched a free email with a capacity of1g. Because it was April Fool's Day, many people thought it was a joke, because paid email had long been popular and accepted by netizens. Instead of pursuing victory, Google gave generously, which made people suspicious. Unexpectedly, this changed the fate of email. Hotmail and Yahoo immediately followed suit and launched the same G-level email. China's Sina and Netease have also launched free mailboxes with the size of1g. Although Sohu is slow to follow the trend, it recently launched a sogou mailbox with a capacity of 2G. Even at the coronation dinner of the 54th Miss World Finals, Mr. Zhang Chaoyang not only presented awards to Miss China Jin Yang, but also did not forget to open a 2G sogou super mailbox for her.

Isps seem to understand that if you get a few VIP mailboxes to collect a little money, it is better to make the free mailboxes bigger and win more users, because the free mailboxes on the website are undoubtedly the most effective way to accumulate netizens' loyalty; For users, having a mailbox of 100M and a mailbox of 1G will not make much difference in life, and there are even whispers of killing chickens with a butcher's knife. However, if snipes compete with mussels, fishermen will benefit. In the past, free meant instability, but now free means you can get better service, so netizens in China will have fun.

online game

According to some surveys, the average time for visitors to stay on the homepage of large websites is 5 minutes, the time for popular download websites is 10 minutes, the time for popular game forums is 30 minutes, and the time for popular online games (including online chess games) is 3 hours. CNNIC survey shows that "recreation" has become the second major purpose of family netizens after "getting information", and the average time for users to play online games every week is 1 1.7 hours. These data may be exaggerated, but at least it shows that the online game industry has become a sunrise industry in China. Chen Tianqiao, the chairman of Shanghai Shanda Company, is in his early 30s and is worth billions. Ding Lei of Netease once said: "Online games are a business that can earn thousands of dollars by sleeping every day." In 2004, Chinese mainland officially operated more than 150 online games. Due to fierce competition, in addition to the homogenization crisis, the cost of acting as an agent for foreign games is also soaring. A person from a game company said, "In the past, our agent for a game only needed 300,000 US dollars, but now it is generally 1 10,000 US dollars, and the most expensive one is 3 million US dollars."

Although online games once brought new vitality to the domestic Internet industry, most of them were imported from South Korea. Many online games are boring and monotonous, and some of them are of low production level. Events such as private servers and plug-ins emerge one after another. Players often lose their wives and soldiers because of the loss of virtual property and equipment. In addition, many teenagers are addicted to online games, causing many social problems. Angry parents and public opinion have hit the board on the head of online games.

Colored ringtones are full of joy.

After the appearance of CRBT, it has brought great happiness to people, because their ringtone is no longer a sound, but appears in many ways, such as a piece of music, a song, a joke or even a classic dialogue of a movie. To put it bluntly, it's the kind of thing where you pay others to have fun. To put it mildly, it's all fun. CRBT started in May 2003 and became a blockbuster in 2004. According to statistics, by the end of 2004, CRBT users will reach 22 million, and the market scale will reach 860 million yuan.

CRBT has a very strong mass base, and hundreds of millions of mobile phone users in China are the biggest backers of SP and operators. Compared with wireless Internet access, MMS and other communication services, users can enjoy this service for only a few yuan. The individuation of CRBT is extraordinary, which is very destructive to young people who like new things and advocate themselves. They are tired of playing SMS and admire CRBT strongly. CRBT is a pure additional service, which will not reduce the income of voice services, including operators and ringtone service providers. It can not only make SP earn enough money, but also become another lifeline for operators in the case of declining ARPU value.

Network space cleaning

In the summer of 2004, the relevant government departments launched a vigorous "online anti-pornography" campaign, and the newly established "Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center" quickly verified, confirmed and sealed up nearly 500 pornographic websites. Then, China Mobile severely punished its SP, and its efforts to clean up the market were very rare. Dozens of SMS SP have been subjected to "economic sanctions", and the three major domestic portals bear the brunt, all of which have been punished to varying degrees, and their share prices in the market have also shrunk dramatically. In order to save themselves, yan wang, Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Lei finally joined hands to formally establish the "Integrity and Self-discipline Alliance" in the wireless Internet industry in China. This is the first time since China entered the Internet era that SP has voluntarily and spontaneously formed an alliance. The alliance declared, "Insist on providing healthy and active products and services for the vast number of wireless Internet users, and resolutely put an end to the spread of harmful information such as obscenity and pornography through the products and services we provide".

Internet pornography is always "wildfire has never exhausted them, and they are tall again in the spring breeze". In this virtual interconnected world, communication technology not only brings convenience to people, but also pushes unhealthy content such as pornography, violence, murder and superstition to netizens. As the main body of netizens, teenagers are particularly vulnerable to the corrosion of bad information. If the whole people make full use of the existing technical means to block harmful websites, it will create a good space for the healthy growth of minors. In the long run, "self-discipline" is naturally inferior to "heteronomy". How effective can this practice of being both an athlete and a referee be? Only by accepting the supervision of third parties other than wireless operators and SP can we truly achieve the ideal state of formulating fair and reasonable rules and supervising their implementation.

Telecommunication dystocia

In the recently published list of the top ten "overlord industries", telecommunications "topped the list". Since telecom has been anti-monopoly for more than ten years, why is telecom still the "overlord"? The only thing that can be compared with this is probably the telecommunications law that has been clamoring for decades. Although IT is said that IT technology is developing too fast and legal system construction is slow, is it too slow? China has been drafting the telecommunications law since 1980, and it has been 24 years now, which really makes people wait. Moreover, the "Telecommunication Law (Draft)" adopts the mode of participation of departmental officials and experts, and the drafting process and content are closed, which is inherently lacking in the participation and interaction of consumers and social forces. As its formulation involves the direct interests of millions of users in Qian Qian, we should listen to the voices and opinions of ordinary people in order to safeguard the interests of consumers to the maximum extent.

There is no doubt that the Telecommunications Law plays an important role, but it is not omnipotent. If it is not solved well, it will lead to big problems. The key is to grasp the appropriate standards: the time and opportunity of promulgation, the content and scope of coverage, the standards and methods involved, and the balance of right and wrong can fully reflect the wisdom and wisdom of legislators.

instant message

For IT enterprises, QQ users are the greatest wealth. Although more than 80% of the instant messaging market in China is occupied by QQ and MSN, there are still more and more latecomers. Sina spent more than 30 million dollars to buy Malone UC, and then integrated it with Sina's website content, community, wireless value-added services, making friends, game halls and other content, which was called Global Communication 2005. Sina is determined to make UC2005 the first brand of broadband multimedia instant messaging service in China. Netease released its new version of instant messaging software Bubble 2004, which is a free multimedia instant messaging tool. This software, which took two years to build, is the pride of Ding Lei. Compared with QQ, its function is really powerful. The quality of voice chat exceeds that of GSM mobile phone, and the quality of video transmission exceeds that of MPEG4-4 files. It is predicted that the demand for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint video chat and video conference will increase greatly in two or three years. Netease's other expectation for Bubble is to get involved in the communication field. Due to the domestic telecom control, it is impossible to realize the direct communication from PC to phone, but Ding Lei said that the policy will definitely be open, and this function has been hidden in Bubble 2004, and it can be realized at any time as long as it is allowed. This ambition is not small. Compared with UC2005 and Bubble 2004, Sohu's Q search is not strong, but it is more convenient to use because its interface and usage are similar to QQ. In order to promote this communication tool, Sohu also established the "Q Search Website Alliance" to encourage individual websites to join the corresponding links. TOM directly launched the Internet voice communication tool TOM-Skype, with which you can talk to your friends directly through the computer.

"Ask me something" has become the mantra of some people. The chubby little penguin has become the image ambassador of online chat tools. Some people even print their QQ numbers and MSN on their business cards. Instant messaging tools, including QQ, have not only changed people's communication methods, but even become a culture. The fly in the ointment is that two different chat tools can't communicate with each other. Unexpectedly, the interconnection that has already been realized in the communication field is in the world of the Internet. The current solution is to open more than several chat tools at the same time.

search engine

Portal sites have always believed that content is the key. Inadvertently, Google, Baidu, HC and other professional websites have gone far on the road of search, and even become upstarts on the Internet. As a result, Sina pushed "Dr. Cha", Sohu pushed "sogou", and Netease search was also revised, saying that it could combine "directional search" with "massive search" to let netizens find it quickly and accurately.

"Baidu" has become a new network term. You can Google what you want to eat, play and buy first. Neither Baidu nor Google will let you down. Related search results will always be displayed within 1 sec. Even when you are bored, you can Google your name to see if it has been recorded, or know people with the same name. In a word, search engines are not only useful but also interesting.

E-commerce/e-commerce

E-commerce has been clamoring for many years, but netizens always watch more and buy less, and website construction is hard to see. It suddenly caught on this year. Joyo sold it to Amazon at a good price, and EBAY finally added Yi Bei to its name. Ma Yun of Alibaba proudly said that Taobao only burns money and doesn't want to make a profit in a few years. Zhang Chaoyang attended the celebration of Sohu Mall for the first time, and said that it was precisely because of the blind command of Wall Street investors that he missed business opportunities. Rebecca and Yang Zhiyuan "high-fived each other", and the new auction website "Easy Auction" co-operated by Yahoo and Sina was officially opened. The C2C market is booming, and e-commerce has recovered its vitality.

Although CNNIC's survey shows that online shopping is being accepted by more and more netizens, 38% of netizens still said that they bought goods through shopping websites this year. Books and periodicals, computer-related products and audio-visual products have become the most frequently purchased products online. However, the insecurity of online payment system and the untimely offline logistics system all affect people's enthusiasm for e-commerce activities.

Ultra-low-cost computer into the village

2999 yuan makes your computer dream come true. After occupying 30% of the market share, Lenovo, the leader of the PC industry in China, has encountered a development bottleneck. Facing the high-end competition from Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other enterprises, it turned its attention to the vast rural villages and towns, that is, the so-called areas 5 and 6, claiming to achieve the goal of 1 10,000 units in 1 year, although it has repeatedly stressed that this is aimed at villages and towns. Lenovo's reason is that "in the second half of 2003, we made a survey and found that the average number of personal computers per 100 households in big cities is close to 40, but the 4-6 market is still at the level of 10, which contains huge market opportunities. The question is, what kind of products do we use to open this market? "

Whether Lenovo's move is a balance between Intel and AMD, or Lenovo's risky move to intervene in the low-end PC market, it has indeed brought more benefits to rural consumers. However, just like a few years ago, after the market was saturated, domestic mobile phones and foreign brand mobile phones took the route of encircling cities from rural areas, and low prices could not be equated with lower quality.

Blog life

It is reported that blog has become the most frequently queried word in 2004. It is estimated that CNNIC will count the number of blogs in the survey soon. Blog is the Chinese translation of blog (the abbreviation of weblog/web-log) or weblog, which means online diary. You can post daily events, opinions and information on the Internet and communicate with other blogs in this way. Even people who can't edit web pages can make their blogs flourish. As long as you are willing, you can become a writer and fully satisfy the narcissistic plot of appreciating your own works. This fashionable vocabulary has been regarded as the fourth way of network communication after email, BBS and ICQ.

However, this casual writing also brings some problems. Last year, Mu published a "love letter" of sex diary on her blog. This year, Qingtong posted her nude photos in Tianya community, which shocked the Internet community. Some people say that "blog will kill traditional media", while others say that "with blog, everyone can be a reporter." It remains to be seen what kind of influence blog will bring to human beings.