Chapter 475: The more technology develops, the more people will constantly change their careers
The Chinese New Year is coming soon. I won’t write about the Chinese New Year.
Now that I live a wealthy life, I don’t have the same expectations for food as I did when I was a child.
The Spring Festival Gala has regressed, and except for the actors, everyone in the country is embarrassed.
I’m tired of texting, and sending it over and over again has become a task.
No firecrackers are allowed, and the New Year is celebrated in silence.
Xiao Shitou, Yifan, and Guihuasao all went home, and no one came to visit. At lunch on the fifth day of the New Year, my mother said:
"Life is getting better and better, but there's nothing like the New Year's feeling."
She recalled her childhood memories of grinding tofu, making rice cakes, and visiting relatives. Finally, she sighed, "It's still better to live in the countryside."
I said, "The countryside is pretty much the same as the city these days. It's just as sterile. You just haven't been back for years. Even when you go back, people still hate you for being rich and despise you for being poor. Few people are willing to get close to you."
She said, “No way?”
My dad said, “You don’t know how to use your phone, go to TikTok and see a lot of people complaining.
In the past, when visiting relatives, you would stay overnight and have a meal, but now you just drop off your gifts and leave. In the past, people would ask about their health, but now they ask about their income.
My mother said, "Income? Our income is not low either."
I smiled and said, "Next Spring Festival, I'll take you back to experience it."
Going up to the second floor, Xiaolin said, "Your mother is a little pretentious now."
I said, "It's not that she's being pretentious. It's just that times have changed and people's lifestyles have changed, but she's still stuck in the small peasant economy of the past."
Xiao Lin said, "People nowadays generally lack enthusiasm. Look, when we went back on the second day of the Lunar New Year, none of our neighbors came to play."
I said, "You have to get used to this kind of life. It's going to become less and less human. We're almost entering the ninth cycle. The ninth cycle is characterized by an even more indifferent human connection."
She asked, "What is the Nine Yuns?"
I said, "It's the 20 years from 2024 to 2043."
“Why is it becoming increasingly fading?”
“The more technological civilization advances, the less human feelings become.”
She smiled and said, "Master Wan, can you explain it to me in detail?"
I said, “I want to take a lunch break.”
She made a cup of tea and placed it in front of me, saying, "Can I pay you like everyone else?"
I laughed out loud.
She shook her hand: "Keep your voice down, I just put Xiaoyu to sleep."
I said, "For example, one year, Li Bai and Du Fu agreed to meet in a town in Hubei. Through correspondence, they confirmed the date as May 12th.
Li Bai arrived first and waited for five days, but Du Fu still hadn't arrived. Li Bai thought Du Fu was not keeping his word and left.
The next day, Du Fu arrived and couldn't find Li Bai. He was so anxious that he cried. He wanted to explain to Li Bai that he was late because of a mountain flood on the way.
There's no point crying out of anxiety.
A few years later, when they finally met, they hugged each other tightly.
Du Fu said, "If you wait one more day, we will meet." Li Bai reflected and said, "I am too impatient. I will change in the future."
Is there still such feeling nowadays?
Du Fu started a video and said: Brother Bai, where are you?
Li Bai said: Playing cards, come over by high-speed rail and play cards together in the evening.
Du Fu said: OK.
After saying that, he swiped a high-speed rail ticket, left the station and took a taxi. Once they got to Li Bai's house, would they still hug? Absolutely not.
Li Bai handed the cards to Du Fu and said, "Help me play for a while while I go to the bathroom."
Xiaolin held his stomach and laughed, afraid of waking Xiaoyu up.
I said, "In the future, technology will be even more advanced. For example, when fully automatic driverless cars become available, my mother won't have to ask us to drive her back to her hometown. She can just get in the car and say, 'Let's go to He Village.'"
The car took her away. She didn't have to beg you or me. When a person doesn't need to ask others for help, human feelings become weak.
Technology not only deconstructs human relationships, it also deconstructs worship. For example, the Japanese Go master became a great figure because of his Go skills.
If ordinary people ask to see him, he will ignore you. If you want to change your wife, just change one. Now that AlphaGo has appeared, all chess masters have been defeated by robots.
The Go master is no longer sacred in your heart, just that. The next time you meet him on the street, you will not be interested in asking for his autograph because he is not even as good as a 'robot dog'.
Xiaolin said, "I see. If technology continues to develop at this rate, I wonder what society will be like in the future."
I said, "Those who follow the times will prosper. If we don't update our inherent knowledge, we will be dissatisfied with everything.
For example, we believe that rice must be grown in fields, but our country has already developed bamboo rice. It can be grown on the mountains in the future."
Xiaolin asked in surprise, "Bamboo rice? Rice growing on bamboo?"
"Well, by artificially pollinating bamboo and rice, we've successfully hybridized them to create a new rice variety called Chinese Bamboo Rice. It's the product of over 40 years of research by Professor Zhong Meizhang. In the future, we might just be eating bamboo rice."
Kobayashi said, “The world is changing so fast.”
I smiled and said, "Yes, that's what I wanted to tell you, why you should cooperate with Captain Gu and Jiang Yiwei. Now is the Internet age, you have to seize this wave of momentum."
The more advanced technology becomes, the more it will shatter our inherent concept that a person will constantly change careers throughout his life.
For example, I predict that this wave of online shopping will not flourish for more than five years. If you enter now, there will be something new coming out in five years.”
"Are you a deity?"
"Half-immortal. For example, when the telephone was popular, you thought it was the best communication tool. How many people still have telephones now? When pagers became popular, you thought it was a magical tool for finding people. But when mobile phones came out, pagers disappeared.
When China Mobile was charging one cent for each New Year's greeting text message during the Spring Festival every year, WeChat came out and didn't charge a penny. China Mobile's dream of a long and prosperous future was shattered overnight.
The more advanced technology becomes, the shorter the application cycle will be. You may think you will never be unemployed in interior design, but soon you will enter the stage of computer-automated design.
"How is automatic design designed?" Kobayashi asked.
I said: "The owner said to the computer, 200 square meters, Chinese style, focusing on simplicity and practicality.
The robot will quickly produce ten different sets of drawings for you, clearly showing the materials used and the cost.
Finally, it said, "Master, if you have any other requirements, I will patiently modify it for you. Your satisfaction is my greatest happiness."
Xiao Lin stamped his foot and said, "Wan Shanhong, why didn't you tell me before?"
"I have low self-esteem, and as a high school student trying to share this knowledge with a college student like you, I'm afraid I'll be embarrassing myself."
She rolled her eyes at me and asked, "What other stable professions are there in the world?"
I said, "Right now, robots can't do Wan Shanhong's job. I'm not sure whether they can do it in the future."
Xiao Lin said, "No wonder you can make money and know so much."
I said, "Yeah, you don't even listen when I'm chatting with others. You think I'm just like those fortune tellers on the street, saying ambiguous things to trick people into paying you."
"Not really. I'm just not interested in fortune-telling. I studied dialectical materialism."
I laughed and said, "Even Wang Defeng, a philosophy professor at Fudan University, believes in fortune-telling, and you're still being dialectical. No one knows the origin of the world, so you're restricting others from being idealistic."
At this time, the cell phone rang. It was Yiwei calling. He first said some polite words like wishing a happy new year, and then said that he and Captain Gu would come to wish a happy new year tomorrow.
I relayed this to Xiaolin, who said, "Be determined to cooperate with them. The more technology develops, the faster the human career cycle becomes. You won't be able to cooperate forever. The next step is to capture new careers."
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Gu Tuanzhang and Jiang Yiwei arrived as scheduled, and the house was bustling with activity. Xiaolin and they had a very pleasant chat that day. They ultimately agreed to expedite renovations and open the business as scheduled in May.
This is probably the only thing worth recording during the Spring Festival.
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