After all, science and technology is to solve people's problems, and the biggest problem of mankind is the problem of the future.
With regard to the future, at the current level of human technology, speculation is greater than prediction, so some worries are described as unfounded, and some are called precautions.
Is Musk's Mars colonization plan unfounded or pre-emptive?
Around the Mars Colonization Program, Musk created several associated companies that invested a lot of money and effort. NASA has also planned to send astronauts to Mars around 2030.
If the Mars colonization plan is Musk's personal behavior, it has received many responses and support. In fact, without the strong support of NASA, the Mars colonization program will not be able to move forward. The most critical Falcon rocket and dragon spacecraft were launched with the support of NASA.
The fate of mankind cannot be a priori, and the efforts made by mankind now will be part of the fate of the future.
Recently reported that the brain-computer interface company created by Musk announced that it will launch a product next year, using brain-computer interface technology to make paralyzed people stand up.
If Martian colonization is still out of reach, then the change in human destiny by brain-computer interface technology can be seen next year.
Musk is using technology to change the fate of mankind step by step, while what are we doing on the other side?
Innovations in trick-like business models are underway.
Business model innovation is necessary, but excessive model innovation will weaken the investment in scientific and technological innovation, and excessive model innovation will cause industry involution.
For example, in the initial stage of the development of e-commerce, the use of the network across time and space characteristics, saving transaction costs, facilitating buyers and sellers, driving changes in the industrial pattern, but also driving the development of some physical industries. When e-commerce develops to a certain extent and exceeds the support of the real industry, it breaks the balance between the virtual economy and the real economy, and begins to have an impact on offline transactions, resulting in a large number of physical stores.
Compared with scientific and technological innovation, the threshold of model innovation is mainly capital, not technology, so in the later stage of e-commerce development, it is difficult to find new innovation points, resulting in in-volume competition between e-commerce.
The impetus to make e-commerce to the extreme still comes from the capital behind it.
The most typical is that at the beginning of this year, under the condition of employment difficulties, the major e-commerce platforms invariably entered the community to sell vegetables, intending to use the ultra-low operating costs of the Internet to completely replace the community vendors. Fortunately, the regulatory authorities intervened in time, otherwise there would be a fight between the gods and the small vendors.
One is that business serves science and technology, and ultimately serves people, and the other is that technology serves business and ultimately serves capital. The superior and inferior are judged from above.
The fate of mankind is unknown, we develop business and technology, both short-term benefits and long-term interests, if immersed in the excitement of short-term profits, turn a blind eye to threats, will miss the opportunity to survive.
Encouraging doing so in the long term is supported by an integrated environment.