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The word Internet is a very new concept in this era, even in the United States.

Although many established American investment groups are not particularly familiar with the new thing of the Internet, especially behemoth investment banks like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, the elite think tanks they hire with high salaries will also help them with their future investments. Give the most accurate direction.

That's the Internet.

Among them, the one that has gone the furthest in Internet investment on Wall Street today is Travelers Group, in which Jester has a large stake.

But there are not many investment projects.

This is true in the United States, let alone in China. Not to mention the establishment of domestic networks and current charging prices, the number of Internet users is very rare.

In Jester's memory, the first domestic website should be Yinghaiwei. However, even Yinghaiwei has not yet been established. It will have to wait until May next year for this company, which is crucial in the history of the domestic Internet, to be launched. Only then will the listing be established.

In this era, if you just build a website, you will definitely lose money.

The country is not the United States. In the United States, for example, America Online, invested by Travelers Group, had nearly 200,000 users in the past few years. It is now the most visited website in the United States, and, in Jester’s In memory, in the original history, AOL would be acquired by Time Warner at a very high price a few years later.

However, it will be difficult to make a profit within ten years if you run a domestic website.

Jester remembered that when he was in that world, he had read some books and articles about the development of the Internet during this period in China. In those materials, there was a very classic saying that was used to describe this still relatively primitive era. The domestic Internet is perfect - everyone knows that the Internet represents the future, but no one knows how to survive into the future.

It's nothing more than that, in a short period of time, the Internet will not make money. And you still need to invest money in it - Yinghaiwei's assets were 80 million at the beginning, which was 80 million in the mid-1990s. As a result, it only allowed Yinghaiwei to survive until the beginning of the 20th century, as we will see soon At the dawn of time, the earliest Internet company in China, the pioneer, completely collapsed.

In fact, now we are facing the Internet.

Whether it is in the United States, where the Internet is the most developed, or in other countries, including China. In addition to external factors such as the scarcity of network users and the time required to set up network lines, these Internet companies that want to be the first to eat crabs also face a very important problem, that is, how can they Make money from the Internet.

Although investing in Internet companies is very popular in the United States now, these investors actually don’t know how to make the Internet profitable in the future. They just invest in the future. The Internet will definitely make a lot of money in the future, but as for how to make a lot of money, we don’t care, we will always make a lot of money anyway.

For example. There is a very famous story. When Zhang Chaoyang, the founder of Sina in China, was seeking venture capital, he introduced his company's prospects and future to some executives of Morgan Stanley, but Morgan Stanley was not listening at the time. Obviously absent-minded, they actually didn't understand what Zhang Chaoyang was saying at all. One female executive even fell asleep while listening to Zhang Chaoyang's speech.

In fact, no expert or scholar in the entire world has a very accurate and clear summary and prediction.

With the development of Internet technology, what impact will this emerging thing have on us?

In Jester's memory, it was in 1996 that a computer science professor at MIT named Negroponte wrote a book called Digital Survival, which was the first For the first time, someone has described the future digital society in front of everyone in a relatively clear way.

Then, it is inevitable that if such a book is published when the Internet is at its hottest, sales will definitely skyrocket.

This book has also been hailed as the bible for the development of information technology and concepts in the twentieth century by everyone who followed. The popularity and dissemination of this book had a profound impact on the enlightenment and development of the information age in the last century. This book explains in a simple and profound way The basic concepts, trends and applications of information technology, its huge value and the grand blueprint of the digital era clarify the impact and value of information technology and the Internet on the times and people's lives. The author, Negroponte, has become a godfather in the field of information technology investment and trend analysis. His popularity has greatly increased and the intangible value he has brought is immeasurable.

When Jester thought of this, he felt a little moved.

When he reaches his status, money actually doesn't matter anymore, no matter how much it is, it's just a number, but reputation, no one dislikes having too much.

He was wondering if he could write this book in advance and gain endless fame and fortune? According to his current qualifications and status, he is indeed qualified to write this book.

You must know that the impact of this book on future generations is too great. If this world can collect faith and become holy, then the book Digital Survival can directly make a mortal ascend in the daytime.

Jester has read this book, more than once.

It is of course impossible for him to recite or repeat it perfectly, but after all, this book is a book written by Negroponte in 1996, although his book was later published by Negroponte. Those who are engaged in Internet and digital work have pointed out a road leading to Rome, but prophecies are prophecies after all, and there will always be some deviations from reality.

But Jester is different. Jester has seen what the future world will be like after being profoundly affected by the Internet.

For him, when he wrote this book Digital Survival, he did not need to deduce like Negroponte, but could directly and accurately describe how the future world should be like this.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Jester was even a little impatient to start writing right now.

He found a large stack of manuscript paper, then took out a pen, and almost without thinking, wrote the name of the book he wanted to write in English right on top of the paper.

Digital survival.

But after writing down the name, Jester suddenly realized that there were so many things he could write that he didn’t even know where to start - there were so many things he wanted to write about. , just looking at this name in silence for half a minute, Jester threw the pen aside.

Then sighed. (To be continued...)