1991 Starting from the core - Chapter 1011

c1009 Internet spirit

Compared with the Internet conferences held in China for 20 years, the first real international Internet conference held in Bangalore is obviously much more “serious” and formal – the former has basically evolved into a big boss’s tea party and An exhibition for bragging about the emerging blood of the Internet to attract investment.

Therefore, Bangalore freed up its largest theater to entertain this group of distinguished guests from all over the world.

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On the podium, the leader who came from a humble and poor background showed his usual affinity and gave a warm welcome to the guests on behalf of the country and the people. Of course, in the end, he also drew some beautiful-looking pie, unabashedly It shows the country’s thirst for opportunities.

Su Yuanshan’s seat is in the middle of the first row. On his left is Ye Rudai and on his right is Gates.

This subtle arrangement has actually set the tone for the status of the entire Internet. If in the early days of the Internet, Silicon Valley was still a place that smart people in India aspired to, then in the past ten years, especially the decade with the rise of the mobile Internet, , a large number of IT talents in India regard HK and Lyon as their first choice, and their second choice is Silicon Valley.

The reason why the provincial capital is at the bottom is naturally not because of its insufficient status and attractiveness, but because of the language problem – in other places, as long as you can speak English, you can have a good work and life. But in the provincial capital… of course there is no problem in work, but in life… not only do you have to learn Chinese, but you are also very likely to learn dialects, or salt and pepper Mandarin.

The natural result of this is that Internet practitioners in Bangalore have deeply realized that in the field of mobile Internet, their next-door neighbors are the real number one.

“It’s your turn.” Ye Rudai touched Su Yuanshan lightly – after so many years of marriage, she only needed to look at Su Yuanshan’s eyes to understand that her husband was distracted.

“Yeah.” Su Yuanshan maintained a smile and focused expression, withdrew his attention, glanced at his wife, and then at Gates beside him.

Gates’ eyes happened to look towards him. Seeing Su Yuanshan take a gentle breath, Gates immediately frowned slightly and subconsciously shook his head at Su Yuanshan.

——His understanding of Su Yuanshan is naturally not as deep as Ye Rudai’s, but the two have known each other for twenty years, and he certainly understands what Su Yuanshan’s expression means.

This means that Su Yuanshan will probably take the opportunity to speak at this Internet conference to vent his anger.

In Gates’ view, this kind of provoking confrontational sentiment is unnecessary – whether it is himself or Su Yuanshan, their identity and status, any words they say, any attitude they express will be interpreted by various media.

In addition to the media, there are also all kinds of self-media, and even all kinds of idiots with fantastic ideas… They will always find something to criticize in an ordinary statement.

“Now, Mr. Su Yuanshan is invited to give a speech.”

Su Yuanshan smiled at Gates and walked slowly to the stage amid applause.

In the process of taking the stage, he saw BOSS, who was walking backstage, also stopped and stood beside him, smiling and applauding him.

Su Yuanshan quickly quickened his pace and walked up to the BOSS and stretched out his hand.

The two shook hands and communicated silently for a second before BOSS smiled and motioned for Su Yuanshan to come to the stage.

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“Since the concept of global village was proposed by McLuhan in the 1960s, human technological development has been moving towards this goal, and this has kicked off what we call globalization.”

Although Su Yuanshan brought his speech notes with him, his memory has always been very good, and he always wrote his speech notes himself, so there was no need to look down at the prompts.

“In the traditional concept, globalization manifests itself as economic globalization, trade globalization, and production globalization – for example, a company from Europe and the United States sets up a factory in Calcutta and purchases various products from Mumbai, the mainland, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Various parts are assembled, and then equipped with a control system from Bangalore to complete a product.”

“This product is either shipped to New Delhi, or shipped across the ocean to London, Paris, or New York, and finally reaches the hands of consumers.”

“This is a simple manifestation of the globalization of traditional industries.”

Although it was an Internet conference, Su Yuanshan did not talk about the Internet from the very beginning. Instead, he started with global production. Of course, in order to show respect for the landlords, the examples he cited were some of the most well-known cities in India.

The third brother just likes to support and coax, Su Yuanshan is familiar with him.

And the effect… was naturally great – all the local Indians in the audience were smiling.

“But the history of the past few decades tells us that global production cannot be established overnight. And most importantly… it has a cost. Therefore, from the moment the Internet was born, this only required A single telephone line can bring everyone in the world to live together at this time, which has become the best choice and direction to realize the global village.”

“I once talked with Mr. Qian who sent the first email in China. Although it had been ten years since he sent out ‘Across the Great, Wall we can reach every corner in the world’, he still couldn’t restrain his heart. The excitement – even in the 1990s, even the traditional Internet was still in its infancy.”

“Perhaps it is this kind of fair and free expression, communication, sharing, and joy and sorrow that transcends mountains and seas, countries, skin colors, and regardless of race. This is what I yearn for, and it is the true spirit of the Internet. So. , over the past two decades, we have been sparing no effort to promote the popularization and advancement of the Internet.”

Su Yuanshan paused as he spoke, and his eyes stopped on the face of Gates, who was frowning slightly in the audience and had been looking at him seriously.

Gates, who is over sixty years old, is obviously looking a bit old…

“Perhaps it is this belief that even when the bubble burst and the entire Internet fell into winter, entered darkness, and was abandoned by all capital, we still firmly believed that the Internet is the future. We even believed that its threshold was not high. It should be so high, consumption should not be so expensive, it should not only be used for work and study, but should become a part of our lives.”

“And we have seen the results – many of our colleagues here have experienced moments when the Internet was not trusted, survived the cold winter, and eventually grew into towering trees, providing services to users around the world.”

“But today, I’m starting to worry about the future of the Internet.”

Su Yuanshan slowly stopped laughing and his expression became calm.

“Because, more than one company has begun to build its own moat and build its own products into isolated islands in the information world.”

“Similarly, more than one voice has begun to use various lame reasons and excuses, such as security, to hinder the progress of globalization.”

“What’s amazing is that the people making these voices are not experts in the field of information and security.”

Su Yuanshan breathed out softly: “This is against the spirit of the Internet, the development of information technology, and the process of globalization.”