From Bitcoin to Facebook to launch the project Libra, view the wealth of mankind is no longer just an anchor material, is also the anchor man of ideas. In 2018, the blockchain has accelerated in the fields of medical, judicial, real estate registration, supply chain finance, etc. In the future, the blockchain may become the daily routine of our lives like mobile payments.
In the "9 small things that affect the world at the beginning of the 21st century" listed this time, in addition to Nakamoto's papers, there are 8 small things:
In 2000, Sharp first installed a camera on his mobile phone. Although sales were very bleak in the environment at the time, now, if anyone uses a mobile phone without a camera, it is simply unimaginable. After the camera function of the mobile phone appeared, it gave birth to a new business model such as short video, beauty and live broadcast, and also gave birth to the "self-timer addiction" syndrome group.
In 2001, George Mitchell, the father of shale gas, bought a wasteland in Texas, USA, without a drop of oil. Michelle believes that advances in technology will eventually activate shale gas below the surface of a few kilometers. Shale gas is not the same as the natural gas we usually use for cooking at home. Natural gas is called conventional natural gas, and shale gas is called unconventional natural gas, but it is always a natural gas resource. After Michelle bought this wasteland, he realized the large-scale exploitation of industrial rock gas through technology and detonated the new revolution of human energy.
In 2005, after the satellite achieved full coverage, GPS began to be used for large-scale civilian use. The inventor of GPS, Heidi Rama, is also a well-known actor. Her life is very legendary. She is naked in the movie "Spirited" and is the world's first naked actor. The film also brought her parents on the day of the film's premiere. Going to the movies together. Heidi Rama belongs to the kind of person who can live well by his value and IQ. He was recognized as the European sexy goddess in the 1930s. However, she was a vase at the level of acting, so she left the entertainment circle and turned to research, inventing the GPS we must drive now.
In 2011, Xu Wei, founder of Lingkong.com, applied for a QR code patent. In fact, the QR code we can see everywhere is invented by a Japanese named Teng Hongyuan. At that time, the amount of information stored in ordinary barcodes was very small, only 20 Japanese characters, so Teng Hongyuan led the team after two years of research and invention. The QR code, which stores a high amount of information up to 5000 Japanese characters. It is a pity that Teng Hong originally felt that the technical content of the two-dimensional code was not too high, and he did not apply for a patent, so he was missed by the Chinese. From this two-dimensional code changed the Chinese way of life, deeply embedded in our society, from the street to sell breakfast, to take the bus, the cinema to pick up the ticket, even the street begging is carrying a QR code.
In 2003, the secured transaction appeared and was later renamed Alipay.
In 2007, two poor students earned $1,000 by renting three airbeds. This is a prototype of Airbnb, and the sharing economy was born.
In 2010, face recognition began to spread. A word began to spread on the Internet: the wind and the rain shun Xiao Jingteng, Guotai Min'an Zhang Xueyou. At the concert of the song god Jacky Cheung, a total of seven criminals were captured through face recognition technology.
8.In 2019, artificial meat introduced an artificial vegetarian sausage. It is said that the taste can be faked and the protein content is higher than that of the traditional sausage. There should be a lot of friends who like to eat sausages, but everyone will worry that the materials used for sausages are not clean. After the popularity of artificial vegetarian sausages, I don’t know if I don’t have to worry about the meat in the sausages coming from the black workshop.