"I heard that our school invited Negroponte to give a lecture!"

In the dormitory of 309, Song Xiaobo announced the news to everyone.

Cai Yifeng was not there, so he went out to find Tan Wanxi. Liu Cheng is a little overlord, and he simply responded: "Who?"

Chen Zier thought about it carefully, as if he had seen this name in some newspaper last year, but his impression was too shallow, and he forgot what he was doing.

Song Xiaobo exaggerated: "Negroponte! is the American university scholar, the futurist, the one who wrote "Digital Survival." ”

Liu Cheng was unfeeling: "I haven't heard of it, I don't know it." ”

Chen Zier didn't feel anything, and he hadn't watched "Digital Survival" either.

But if it comes to his disciples, he will definitely know. Because that person's name is Zhang Chaoyang.

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Sheng Qianyu finally mustered up the courage to find Chen Zier again, or she really needed Chen Zier's help.

She saw Chen Zier on the court, and stood for several minutes before Chen Zier noticed her.

It was far away and I couldn't hear the speech, so Chen Zier pointed at herself with his finger at her, meaning: Are you looking for me?

Sheng Qianyu nodded.

Chen Zier ran to the sidelines, his hands on his waist, panting: "What's wrong?"

Sheng Qianyu greeted the sun, her eyes were pierced and she could only squint, and she was also seven or eight centimeters shorter than Chen Zier, so she tilted her head and asked, "Do you know Negroponte? He came to CUHK this weekend to give a lecture." ”

Hearing this name for the second time today, Chen Zier felt strange, "I know that this person is here to give a lecture, but I don't know what he does?

"Have you watched Digital Survival?"

Chen Zier was speechless, if I had seen it, would I not know who Negroponte was?

He said: "I haven't read it, and I don't like books with the word 'number' in the title. ”

Sheng Qianyu remembered something, and couldn't help but laugh, but his tightly pursed lips still skimmed, almost breaking his work.

Chen Zier doesn't like high math class, just look at his confused expression in class.

Sheng Qianyu felt that he had asked someone to help, and he almost laughed at others, adjusted it, and said, "I'm sorry." ”

Chen Zier didn't care, and said, "It's okay, just say it, what's wrong with this person coming to give a lecture?"

Sheng Qianyu said: "I studied computer science, Negroponte is a very famous person in this field, I want to communicate with him, but he is American, although I am trying to learn English, but I am afraid that I will not speak well." ”

Chen Zier was proud: laugh at me for not being good at math, huh? It's just that everyone has their own things to be good at!

A simple little pride, Chen Zier thought about this Negroponte, so this person is an Internet person, but it makes no sense that he doesn't know such a famous Internet expert, he thinks he knows a lot about the Internet!

Sheng Qianyu continued: "I have long known that you can speak fluent English, and I have wanted to ask you for help for a long time, because many cutting-edge materials in my major are in English. But I can't help you, I don't know if you're willing to help me. ”

Chen Zier replied: "Who said you can't help me, aren't you very good at advanced mathematics?" ”

Sheng Qianyu was a little lucky, "So you can help me with this?"

"Isn't it just a translator for you to talk to the Yankees? It's very simple. ”

Sheng Qianyu said: "Thank you." I'm not going to let you fail in high math. ”

You're not going to let me fail? It's weird, like I'm a low-IQ kid. Chen Zier smiled and nodded, hiding his embarrassment.

Chen Zier was sweating, he went back to take a shower first, and then found Sheng Qianyu at the agreed place.

"There are some English books that I tried to read with a dictionary, but I still don't know much about them. Walking on the way to the study room, Sheng Qianyu talked about his difficulties.

Chen Zier took a copy of the book in her hand, the name can be translated as "Algorithm Optimization of Computer Search", he flipped through it, there are many complex formulas in it, and there are dense word notes, but it is difficult to fully understand just by finding out the meaning of each word.

He said, "You should have come to me earlier, it's too time-consuming to read like this." ”

Sheng Qianyu was silent and did not speak.

Chen Zier asked again: "How do you know that I can speak English?"

Sheng Qianyu explained: "At the beginning, I couldn't read these books, and I really wanted to ask international students for help, but later I found out that you knew them. ”

Chen Zier basically understood, and he couldn't imagine that this girl was so interested in learning. The computer industry is undergoing drastic changes, and learning new today may be old tomorrow, and it is indeed necessary to follow the cutting-edge, but the language barrier is impossible to keep up.

Chen Zier simply looked at the two pages and felt a little headache: what kind of optimization algorithm is this, it seems to be mathematics, it looks so difficult.

But on second thought, he was just in charge of translation.

He thought of that Negroponte again and asked, "How powerful is this man?"

Sheng Qianyu seems to admire him, saying: "Actually, I was attracted by the future depicted in his "Digital Survival", I am also very interested in computers, I think computers will change human beings!"

Chen Zier secretly praised: This idea is very good.

But it is not enough to have thoughts, how to change it, whether there is a clear and feasible model is more important. Computer practitioners all over the world are thinking about this question, and whoever thinks first will succeed.

But it's not easy.

It's like someone shouted that big data will change human beings a long time ago, but how to change, what big data is, and how to use it are all slowly figured out after several years.

Chen Zier felt that Sheng Qianyu had the potential to dig gold on the Internet, so he asked: "Then how do you think computers will change human beings?"

"I think every aspect of people's lives will be changed, life, work, play and even education," she said. ”

"To be specific, don't be that big. ”

Sheng Qianyu said with a kind of yearning: "People can cross the gap of distance and race to get real communication, people will communicate with people who are thousands of miles away, and people who resonate with their souls! People who are eager to communicate around but cannot get communication will find their own world." ”

Chen Zier thought for a moment: This should be considered social.

He complimented: "I think your idea will come true, and maybe you will make a lot of money from it." ”

Sheng Qianyu didn't believe it, "What kind of money to make, this is not my first creation, and there is already a forum of 'one network of love' in China, it is all free, where can I make money." ”

Chen Zier carefully discerned and found that what Sheng Qianyu said was actually not far-sighted, she was talking about a bit of a rudimentary form of socialization, but it was more about the concept of community.

And the concept of community is not very advanced, as she said, the community forum of 'one network of love' has appeared.

Chen Zier deliberately mentioned a few words: "I have an immature idea. ”

"What?"

"Come to the classroom, I'll draw it on paper. ”

What's the difference between social and community? That's a good question. Specifically, what is the conceptual difference between a community like Tianya and a Facebook social networking site?

They are all a group of people gathered together, but why is one of the world's Internet giants, and the other can only live a well-off life in China?

Chen Zier put Negroponte aside, and put aside the book to be translated, to do the Internet, technology is very important, and thought is even more important!

He found a piece of paper and wrote the words community and social.

In fact, he himself is not very interested in doing the Internet, because if someone can do it successfully, he just needs to invest. And let him do it on his own, it may not be successful.

But Facebook is different, he has a little patriotism, will it be more refreshing to have such a big corporate surname?

Sheng Qianyu was also thinking, thinking about what Chen Zier was going to say.

Chen Zier pointed to the word 'community' with a pen and said: "The deep love you just mentioned should be regarded as a kind of community, including your own thoughts: people will get together and communicate because of spiritual resonance. They're all communities, and I understand it that communities are born with content. ”

Chen Zier wrote two words under the community, and Sheng Qianyu nodded, agreeing with what Chen Zier said.

"But socializing is different. ”

"How is it different?"

"Socialization is made by people. ”

Below the social side are the people.

This is actually a very essential difference, but Sheng Qianyu didn't quite understand the meaning of this, and asked, "So what?"

Chen Zier: ......

He thought for a moment and explained: "From a business point of view, the size of the community is very limited, because if 1 million people speak at the same time, it is equivalent to no one speaking, but social is different, 1 billion people speak at the same time, they don't interfere with each other." So the difference is that being a community can only be a small company, while being social can be infinite!"

Sheng Qianyu suddenly woke up: "So a deep network of love will not succeed, and doing social networking can create a big company!"

Chen Zier thought to himself: Can you have a deeper understanding, isn't this just a change of my words and repeat it.

Chen Zier felt that she should not have understood the three points of the wood, too, if she had such good qualifications, she would not be unknown in Chen Zier's previous life.

He continued to dig deeper into the difference, saying, "You rushed to the market when you were a child, right?"

Sheng Qianyu nodded, rush to the market, don't say when you are a child, you will grow up, everyone knows.

"To use a misnomerical analogy, the community is a bit like a marketplace, where everyone goes to the platform for the 'content' they need. The rally is a platform for gathering, similar to the role of a forum. But there is always a limit to the number of people in a rally:

First, there are too many people shouting and shouting, and it is too crowded, so the people behind them are reluctant to come, or the people who have been there will not come next time, and go to the gathering where there are few other people to buy things. Second, the rally is too big, and the people who buy things can't find what they want to buy, and the people who sell things start to fish in troubled waters to sell fakes while the crowds are not in place.

"So when the scale is large, the quality of the content will inevitably decline. ”

Sheng Qianyu nodded, the forum is indeed like this, at the beginning when there were few people, the atmosphere was very good, and everyone said very insightful and attractive. But she also felt the phenomenon that there were more people and fewer interesting things, because there were not many interesting souls, and miscellaneous people came in and scolded for no reason, are you angry or not?

This can be regarded as a congenital shortcoming of the community, Chen Zier himself will find that some people say on the Internet: I haven't messed up the world for a few years, and now it's like this?

Yes, the community loses users.

But have you seen a few people say they haven't used Facebook for a few years?

Yes, probably, the account should be suspended for a few years if you go to prison.