Some people write books for Shanghai, and some people write poems for Shanghai.
In Jin Yucheng's pen, a prosperous and dusty day, he wrote all the details of Shanghai with simplicity and complexity; Wang Anyi's pen, a passage of lanes and halls, let people admire the elegance and soluence of the "lane culture" of old Shanghai; Zhang Ailing's pen, a generation of people chasing dreams, Shanghai like the characters she described bravely and tenaciously chased the waves of the times.
The most fashionable is probably Mr. Mao Dun, who at the beginning of "Midnight", he vividly shows the modernization of Shanghai in the 1930s, "high on the roof of a bungalow and unusually large neon tube advertisements, shooting out a fire-like red light and a green flame like green: Light, Heart, Power!" ”
Nearly 100 years later, how will people describe Shanghai's "modernization"? Today, someone chooses to sing a song for Shanghai.
These 4 minutes and 11 seconds are the taste of digital Shanghai.
On January 30, 2022, a song called "City in the Clouds" was sung by Yu Guo, a veteran shanghainese rock band, who climbed to the top floor of the Shanghai Information Building, a landmark building of urban communications, and paid tribute to the digital Shanghai of the future with a rooftop concert.
If we want to get a glimpse of Shanghai today and tomorrow, we might as well open this music video. The MV, jointly performed by the Yuguo Band and the emerging actor Tang Xin, vividly depicts a visible and perceptible picture of future digital city life, and a digital smart Shanghai leaps onto the screen.
What does a "city on the clouds" look like? From home to the car, from the street to the roof, from the coffee shop to the banks of the Pujiang River, in every corner of the future city, the traces of cloud services and smart applications can be seen everywhere, call the phone booth, driverless, robot barista, XR concert... Not surprisingly, most of these smart applications have been integrated into the daily lives of the people of Shanghai, and the modernity of Shanghai is being written with new digital annotations.
Shanghai's narrative never goes out of style, and Shanghai has always stood at the forefront of Chinese imagination, depicting the magical posture of urban globalization and urbanization. In 2021, Shanghai proposed for the first time in the country to "comprehensively promote the digital transformation of cities" and build an international digital capital with world influence. For the future of Shanghai, digitalization, intelligence, and wisdom must be the new magic of the magic capital.
It's time to write another song for Shanghai, hum the lyrics of the Digital City, and play the melody of the city's digital transformation.
"The clouds weave dreamy colors, light up the stars, and the numbers flicker." If today's Shanghai skyline is in the Shanghai Tower, then the height of Shanghai in the future may be hidden in the clouds deep in digital servers.
"Beyond the imagination of light, the world is in your eyes." With the accelerated popularity of 5G, Gigabit WiFi and Gigabit Optical Networks, many families in Shanghai have already entered the "three gigabit era", connecting the world with "light speed".
"Dreaming of the city iteration, like a dream." "When spring comes again, twin fantasies, embrace the future." Now that the pedestal of the "City on the Clouds" is being piled up, building another "Twin Digital City" in the clouds has become Shanghai's action, not just a dream.
Even the biggest writers may not be able to write the lyrics of "City on the Clouds" above, because people who do not understand digitalization cannot see through the future of Shanghai.
If you are familiar with the digitalization process of Shanghai, you should not forget that this is not the first time that Shanghai Telecom has "written songs" for Shanghai.
From narrow to broadband, from copper to fiber, from 100 megabits to gigabits. The development of the city and the beauty of life are reflected in the continuous progress of broadband technology and the rapid improvement of network speed. In order to record the digital footsteps of this city, Shanghai Telecom and Shanghai pioneer music producer He Yujia have successively launched two popular singles of "Gigabit City" and "Gigabit City II: Global Singing", of which "Gigabit City" has continuously entered the top ten of the Himalayan Music Peak Chart and the Oriental Wind and Cloud Chart, which not only depicts the extraordinary achievements of Shanghai's broadband development in the past 20 years, but also sings the resonance of every Shanghainese on the changes in digital life.
"The connection of the city of time and space is everywhere." As sung in "City on the Clouds", at the beginning of 2022, Shanghai Telecom wrote the feelings of digital Shanghai construction into the song, a Shanghai where cloud and network are integrated, a shanghai where digital twins, and an "international digital capital" are gradually transforming into a real spirit in the night sky of Lujiazui.
Numbers in your eyes, wisdom in my heart. The future of Shanghai, OHH I sing a song for you, a song that belongs to Shanghai's smart city.
Author/IT Times reporter Wang Xin
Edit/Kick Sister
Typography/Ji Jiaying
Photo: Shanghai Telecom
Source/IT Times public account vittimes