Zhou Hongyi, a first-line |: The metacosm was "held out" during the epidemic and favored the industrial metacosm

Tencent News "Frontline" Tang Yuanyuan

"Today we will not spray the metacosm, but to guide the metacosm to develop in a direction that is beneficial to the country and industry, and serve the real world." Three-six-zero (601360. SH) founder Zhou Hongyi said.

Zhou Hongyi said at the "Opening the First Year of Digital Security - 360 Group Strategic Conference" held on December 28, "Metacosm was 'held out' during the epidemic and is the product of digital development to an advanced stage. ”

At the beginning of the concept of "metacosmology", Zhou Hongyi had publicly opposed it. He explained, "What I oppose is the metacosm that is detached from reality and addicted to the virtual world, but I am in favor of the industrial metacosm, serving the real economy, serving the manufacturing industry, and serving the digital transformation of various traditional industries." ”

But Zhou Hongyi also believes that the higher the degree of digitization, the greater the security challenge, and future attacks on the virtual world will hurt the real world, so the security risks faced by the metacosm are essentially challenges brought about by digital security.

In Zhou Hongyi's view, the metacosm is still a concept of continuous development and evolution, it is difficult to say that there is a conclusive conclusion, but it should be noted that the metacosm provides everyone with sufficient imagination space at the same time, but also attracts the game school, stock speculation, coin speculation, community school and other genres of hype, overdrafting the future of the industry.

In response to the previous media forecast that the "meta-universe" will reach a market size of 800 billion US dollars in 2024, Zhou Hongyi believes that it is meaningless to talk about numbers now. If we only understand that what Zuckerberg has done is obviously small, we should understand the metacosmology as a kind of idea, from the perspective of digital twins and industrial digitalization.

Therefore, Zhou Hongyi believes that the metacosm is built on the basis of the gradual maturity and integration of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, etc., and is the product of digital development to an advanced stage. He favors the industrial metacosm, which provides better digital support for the real world by building a virtual space that is completely connected to the real world.

He said, "As a concept that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the metacosm should serve the real economy, serve the manufacturing industry, and serve the digital transformation of various traditional industries." ”

Therefore, 360 is a firm digital twin, that is, it opposes the metaverse that is too detached from reality and addicted to games, but supports the metacosm combined with industrial digitalization and realizes the metacosmization of the industrial Internet.