Behind the fiery heat of any new technology scene, it is difficult to fundamentally reject the figure of "liar". These two years are particularly remarkable, from virtual currency, Internet of Things, blockchain to NFT, metaverse, etc., similar is that they have invariably moved towards virtualization, dematerialization, model innovation and other characteristics.
I summarize these new scams as model scams designed with the help of new technology scenarios or concepts and concepts, they have a certain cognitive threshold with the help of new technologies, and at the same time use words such as value, wealth, and policies to attract people who do not know the truth to come in and complete the harvest.
Complex online world
Among them, the most typical is the virtual currency, which is also the most typical in the past two or three years, involving the largest number of people. The rise and popularity of Bitcoin has allowed some people to smell the business opportunities in it, and a large number of virtual coins have emerged in an endless stream, and the most common types of scams are as follows:
1, unlimited setting of currencies: as of 2021, according to coinmarketCap can be queried the number of virtual currencies has reached 6406, its number and scale is still growing, of course, there are a variety of circulation niche areas, playing the role of "cutting leeks" air coins, MLM coins are not among them. The global cryptocurrency market capitalization is 15.14T, but the total market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC) accounts for 41.47%. From the authoritative data point of view, even with the proportion of technical content, but also the head currency almost occupies the vast majority of the market value, so when we look at these rationally, we find that those virtual coins, pyramid schemes, air coins scams are easy to be recognized, the problem is that many people involved in the virtual currency scam are clear, on the one hand, subjectively think that they will become survivors; on the other hand, after they are deceived, in order to recover losses, become a vassal of the platform, such cases abound.
State media coverage
In the face of such a scam, it is actually very simple, take a moment to pay attention to the reports of the official authoritative media, grasp the policy trends in a timely manner, and soberly realize that any project that can bring high returns has huge risks, and the risks and rewards are reciprocal.
2, mining machines and other derivative businesses: After the issuance of coins and other acts were explicitly prohibited by the state, many people aimed at mining machine leasing, computing power trading and other fields. This kind of scam obtains eyeballs by promoting seductive words such as high returns, and then achieves the purpose of making a profit.
After the explosion of the meta-universe in 2020, the speculation of NFTs, digital assets, etc. derived from the meta-universe scene has been endless, and the usual method is still to hype the set of virtual coins, the problem is that some people still believe that the factors behind it are more complicated:
1. After the concept of new technology comes out, the popular science knowledge around the concept of new technology has been lagging behind, resulting in people being difficult to quickly grasp the true connotation of new technology scenarios, and losing the ability to accurately identify;
2, from the technology to the scene, it means that people need to master the knowledge surface increased, for the cross-line and cross-field crowd, for the technical elements behind the technical scene to increase the intensity;
3) The phenomenon of survivor bias is very obvious in almost all scams, that is, people are often seen as profitable groups rather than those who are harmed. For scam organizers, they often increase their deceptiveness by flaunting successful cases and grafting similar scenes and cases and policies, and irrational people are easily brought into the scam;
4, acquaintance trading: a lot of scams that have broken out in the past two or three years, often occur between acquaintances, at the cost of trust to profit.
The age of technology scenes
However, we still need to rationally look at the technical scenario and the scam in two, such as the virtual currency we mentioned above. The digital currency technology and concept represented by Bitcoin are valuable, and the digital yuan currently launched by our country is also designed based on this technical scenario. Similarly, the complex technological scenarios represented by the metaverse have other unique meanings and existential values for the real world.
Therefore, we cannot easily deny the significance of technological development and the role of technological scene changes in promoting our society because of scams. Importantly, we ourselves should have the ability to identify scams in this technocratic society.
The Internet has been very popular in today's society, its greatest significance is to promote the transparency of social information, we face strange things today through the Internet channels to verify or verify, of course, the premise is that we have the ability to verify:
1. Pay attention to the information released by official authoritative channels;
2. Pay attention to the information released by the platform and officially certified channels.
From the above cases, we can also find: 1, we have actually entered the technical society; 2, technological innovation and the frequent emergence of new technological concepts, seriously test our cognitive ability, cognitive ability has become the basic threshold for us to enter the society.
We are now in the stage of fully entering the digital age, technology will become a common element of our life and work, understand technology, especially the value and meaning behind technology, in order to fundamentally eliminate technology-based "scams", I call this ability: digital cognitive ability.