THE PREFACE 说在前面的话

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THE PREFACE

There are things that I have to say in the front. As the great British novelist Charles Dickens once said:” This is the best of times, this is the worst of times.” Some people would say that this sentence is nonsense, because it can be used in any time. But to me, this is not a summary of our time, but a warning to all of us.

Just look around us, the wheels of time rolls on, and we don’t even realize it. From fireworks to recoverable rockets, from drivers to automatic driving technology, from newspapers to We-Media, from silent film to virtual reality, from human intelligence to artificial intelligence…… Technology is booming, at the same time, ourselves are facing great challenges.

The ways to entertain is also booming. WeChat Moments, Weibo…… Things that we love rubs us from thinking, so we see what others see, feel what others feel, judge what others judge, we lost our decoration, what’s worse, we tend to follow other people’s lead, as a result, many people have become an accomplice to online violence, and also fall victim to online violence.

The revolutionary technology is also thriving. We are standing at the door of the forth technological revolution. The forth scientific and technological revolution, based on the World Wide Web, with the information revolution as the core, is reconstructing our world from the bottom up. Where will technology lead us to? How can we know about it? If we don’t stop and think, we may be ruthlessly eliminated from this time.

Great power game, social changes, scientific and technological progress, information revolution, entertainment to death….. All the singing and dancing, perhaps the calm before the storm.

Be a thinker, have a true soul. That’s why I start this account.

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说在前面的话

有些话必须说在前头。伟大的英国作家查尔斯狄更斯曾经说过，这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代。有人说这是一句废话，因为这句话似乎能够用来形容任何一个时代。但我对这句话深以为然，因为我并不把它看做一句对这个时代的总结，而是一句警示。时代的车轮滚滚向前，有时候我们甚至自己都没有意识到它。从二踢脚到可回收火箭，从有人驾驶到无人驾驶，从纸媒到自媒体，从人类智能到人工智能……科技正在飞速发展。与此同时，我们也面临着巨大的挑战。

娱乐方式的多样化、普及化以及去思考化是我们每一个人的危机。朋友圈、微博乃至抖音、快手，我们所热爱的东西正在剥夺我们思考的时间与渴望。我们看见他人所看见的事物，感受他人所感受的时光，评价他人所评价的观点……与此同时，我们也容易失去自己的方向。更有甚者，我们跟随众人，成为网络暴力的帮凶，同时成为网络暴力的受害者。这都是当今网络娱乐去思考化的恶果。这是一个娱乐至死的时代。

与此同时，科技的发展也正以我们难以想象的速度前进着。可以这么说，我们正站在第四次科技革命的门口。第四次科技革命以互联网为依托，以信息革命为核心，自下而上地重构着我们这个世界的秩序。科技将会把我们带向何方？我们又应该如何知晓？如果这时候我们不停下来并思考，我们将会被这个时代无情地淘汰。

大国博弈、社会变迁、科技进步、信息革命、娱乐至死……一切的歌舞升平，也许就是暴风雨前的宁静。

做一个思考者，拥有一颗真挚的灵魂，这是我创建这个公众号的原因。

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