Chapter 399: The Three Industrial Revolutions

The first industrial revolution from the eighteenth century to the beginning of this century, Western countries as the birthplace of the first revolution in one fell swoop to create a huge amount of wealth, especially Britain, Germany also became the world's powers, leaving other countries far behind, and into this century, the first industrial revolution accumulated a large amount of knowledge and technology to promote them began to enter the era of the second industrial revolution, what is the second industrial revolution?

That is electrical automation, energy has changed from oil to electricity, and all kinds of machines use electricity as an energy source, because with electricity, the world has entered the electrical appliance, The era of electrical automation control machinery and equipment production, the industrial revolution, through the successful separation of parts production and product assembly, has created a new efficient new model of mass production of products, but also with electric automation, Western countries can manufacture weapons on a large scale, huge aircraft carriers can be assembled in a few months, aircraft cannons in batches from the factory, for example, a few days ago I went to Volkswagen, their workshop is power automation control, can leave the factory tens of thousands of cars every year, this efficiency in the first revolutionary era is simply unimaginable, it can be said that the emergence of electrical automation has completely changed the face of our human world。

The first industrial revolution gave the human world machinery and a huge increase in productivity, the work that people used to take years or even decades to complete can be completed in a few months with the help of machinery, and the second industrial revolution has improved production efficiency and can allow machinery to produce products on a large scale.

The second industrial revolution has been going on in Western countries for decades, and until now, it is about to enter a new period, which is the third industrial revolution that I will talk about next, and it is coming soon. ”

"The Third Industrial Revolution?"

Bai Weiren's heart trembled when he heard this word.

Bai Weiren as a scholar-type official is very familiar with the development of the world, Liu Lang proposed the first two industrial revolutions are very incisive, can be said to be the development process of Western countries clearly, in fact, history is also developed like this, Liu Lang wrote the third wave is also based on the national electrical automation, the use of foreign technology to build their own domestic automation system, and then continue to expand the domestic market.

However, Liu Lang never mentioned the Third Industrial Revolution in the Third Wave, and what was the Third Industrial Revolution? Bai Weiren involuntarily asked a staff member next to him for a work notebook, and then took out a pen and prepared to record it.

"The third industrial revolution is, in my opinion, the age of electronic information!"

"The age of electronic information?"

None of the people present had heard of this term, and Bai Weiren even wrote these words in his notebook.

"What is the age of electronic information? That is, the extensive application of electronics and information technology, so that the degree of automation control of the manufacturing process is further greatly improved, production efficiency, yield, division of labor and cooperation, the life of mechanical equipment has been unprecedentedly improved, at this stage, the factory uses a large number of mechanical equipment controlled by the computer for production, since then, the machine can gradually replace human operations, not only to take over a considerable proportion of "physical labor", but also to take over some "mental work" This is the fundamental definition of the electronic information age.

Computers are very useful in the future, and it can even be said that they are ubiquitous, for example, the machine tools we use now need to be manually controlled, but in the future, computers will replace labor, because people will have problems, computers will not, as long as they input commands, they will work meticulously, no need to sleep or eat, even if they do it at 24 o'clock a day, there is no problem, and the quality of the products produced is exactly the same, there will be no problems.

This is industrial production, and in life computer is more powerful, our calculation, writing, drawing, can be handed over to the computer to complete, because they are faster, there will be no problems, much stronger than our own hands and feet, so in the future, the computer will become an indispensable product in our life, to that era, the personal computer is almost a person, without a computer, you are in this world is difficult to move an inch!

This is what I think is the third industrial revolution, why do we say this? It is because the work we are going to carry out now is to create this industrial age, that is to say, we are all ahead of the times, and when others have not yet realized that the era has come, we ourselves will be there, participate in and witness the arrival of this era, this kind of honor is not something that everyone will enjoy, and this honor is not something that can be bought with simple money.

Twenty years later, when the world enters that era, people will go back and summarize the development and origin of this era, and then they will find that in '85, a group of young people are standing in an old factory outside the suburbs of Shanghai to study something called a computer chip.

At that time, no one knew what the future of this chip would look like, they only knew that they would devote their life's passion to it and make that little chip, but this was the most crucial step in history, and history was already in the hands of these young people, and all of us here will be recorded in history and remembered by future generations......... I believe that there will be such a passage in the history of world economic development in the future.

In July '85 in Shanghai, a group of young people with dreams gathered together in a company called Jiangnan Radio Factory, and their purpose was to make a computer chip that they didn't even know about, and the function of this chip was very weak, so weak that it could only handle some of the simplest edits, but, just like the human landing on the moon, their small step was a big step for China's information industry, and in the next two or three decades, all the technology of China's information industry came from here, and all talents were produced in them.

It can be said that every progress and leap in China's information industry is closely related to them, they are the pioneers of an era, but also the developers of an era, our country must remember the achievements made by these people to history, because without them, China will not become an information-based power, without the core technology of chip manufacturing, China's development will not be respected by developed countries, it can be said that they are the heroes of the real rise of our country, the contribution made to our country is immeasurable, they deserve the respect of all Chinese, worthy of the title of national heroes。 ”

Liu Lang said firmly.