Musk's acquisition of Twitter is settled, and he has spent $44 billion to include one of the world's most active social media, which can be imagined to set off a huge wave.
I left a passage under his ecstatic post: War is peace, freedom is dictatorship, ignorance is power. There is still a sentence that has not been written, he may have opened Pandora's box, and the history of human civilization may be rewritten.
Anyone who watched two of my videos some time ago probably remembers that I put forward the idea that human civilization is rapidly converging, the most critical of which is that the basis of civilization is communication.
Just as earth gravity is the key to a person's physical composition, morphological characteristics, and mode of action, without earth gravity, life cannot be in this form, and we are not what we are, gravity is the basis for shaping all life, including how we act.
Communication is the basis for the formation, evolution and large-scale cooperation of human civilization. Before the advent of language, humans were not much different from other animals, creeping in the jungles and grasslands, stealing under the claws of wild beasts.
After the emergence of language, human beings can form synergy through complex communication, and the scale of cooperation has become larger and larger, and the power has been greatly enhanced. After modern Homo sapiens left Africa 70,000 years ago and dispersed around the world, the language gradually diverged, forming large and small tribes, occupying the absolute ecological niche of the earth, and extinct many large animals and other species.
Thousands of years ago, different scripts appeared around the world, human communication became more and more convenient, the scale of cooperation became more and more large, began to form city-states and countries, and evolved their own unique civilizations. But until about 2000, human communication was one-way, the rulers conveyed their orders through tribal speeches, imperial edicts, radio and television, etc., and human large-scale cooperation was the will of the supreme ruler. Even the so-called democracy in the West only elects leaders who can better represent the overall will through elections, but the overall will of the people cannot be immediately reflected, and it may even be the case that the leaders will replace the will of the people with their personal will, resulting in a huge disaster.
Since the rise of the Internet in 2000, the information society has gradually formed, a person's voice can be transmitted to any place on the earth in an instant, and get instant feedback, human communication has revolutionized from one-way to two-way, the will of leaders can no longer play a decisive role, and the overall voice of human civilization is the decisive force.
This was vividly reflected in the Russo-Ukrainian War, if it is according to the previous model of the rise of the Internet, Russia attacked Ukraine, after the entry of heavy troops, the Leaders of the United States and Europe can only decide how to deal with it according to their own judgment, I am afraid it is difficult to form a synergy, or at least can not quickly and consistently respond in a short period of time.
But the information network changed everything, Ukraine broadcast the war on the Internet, barbaric, cruel, bloody, injured, dead and destroyed, nakedly exposed to the world, the American and European people were completely enraged, the anti-war wave after wave, the call for assistance to Ukraine to sanction Russia became louder and louder. The leaders of these countries knew what to do without thinking about it themselves, and quickly introduced unprecedented and unprecedented sanctions, even if they had not even thought about it before, and the freezing of russian state and oligarchic assets and property was used, which is the power of two-way exchange of collective will.
Russia, on the other hand, is clearly pursuing only Putin's will, a completely one-way communication, by blocking the Internet, using television to convey a unified voice, so that the people can not accept multi-faceted information, can not form their own judgment, and thus blindly support the war. But this one-way approach obviously can only affect their own country, and the biggest synergy you can form, that is, the cooperation of more than 100 million people, is difficult to match the huge synergy formed by two-way communication. Putin's attack on Ukraine is obviously to solve the problem with three or two punches and incorporate it into his sphere of influence, as before. But what he did not expect was that now that he had entered the information society, the neighbors around him would gather around in an instant, angrily rebuke, hand over the knife, and suddenly fall into an embarrassing situation, and if he continued to fight, he would probably be stabbed all over the body, and if he sacrificed a large killing weapon, he would definitely be directly beaten to death.
And what is the most important thing about communication? Platforms, of course. I had predicted that the next successful social media on the planet would be software that could instantly translate different languages in the world, so that any information could appear in front of anyone instantly, and could be understood without obstacles, and human civilization would gradually merge together through language fusion 70,000 years after leaving Africa, forming a new community of destiny, and may soon be completed. This fusion is based on two-way communication, which is the essence and the bottom of civilization, just as the gravitational force of the earth has shaped life in its present form, and this fusion cannot be stopped by anyone.
Twitter is one of the most influential social media in the world today, and Musk has used it to build his influence, climbing to the top of the world's richest man within a few years and likely to ride the charts.
Musk promotes the idea of absolute freedom, believing that the company "has the potential to become a platform for free speech around the world," calling free speech a "social necessity for effective democracy, and that in the future he will introduce new features that will make algorithms open source, reduce spam bots, and authenticate everyone. Kate Kronic, a law professor at St. John's University, said allowing "all freedom of speech" to exist on Twitter would open the door to the spread of pornography and hate speech.
When Musk takes down Twitter, where will Twitter go? Can absolute freedom really promote the development of human civilization? Could it be Pandora's box he opened? Musk's radical personality makes all of this uncertain, but it's safe to say that, as he predicted as a young man that energy, the Internet, and space were the three most important technologies to change humanity, thus investing in Tesla, Starlink, and Starship, buying Twitter means that he is trying to arrange the future fate of humanity from the most basic level of human civilization with his personal will (even if he asked for advice on Twitter, but not everyone on the planet is on Twitter).
Can Musk change the trend of human civilization merging? Or will it speed up the convergence of civilizations? Or become a dictator yourself? No one knows, but the end result is certain, and fusion occurs like a drop of ink dripping into water, and it is every molecule that plays a role; just like the evolution from ancient apes to humans, going through the genetic mutations of every human who has ever survived on Earth. The integration of civilizations is also the convergence of every individual and civilization, and it occurs at the bottom level through communication, not subject to anyone's will.
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