Roger McNamee: 6 ways to save the internet
Ten years from now we will interact with the internet in completely different ways. Roger McNamee identifies six changes that are already transforming the ways we consume and create content. Full bio
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of watching Silicon Valley take off
看到矽谷的起飛,
what was about to happen?
what I think is going to be
of the technology world
最強烈的分崩離析。
will be entirely about engagement.
將取決於我們的參與度。
a transformational change
to think about engagement.
a major technology cycle
即將出現一個重大的循環,
in which I find myself:
about half the day,
我是位專業投資者,
10 hours sleep at night,
需要有十小時的睡眠,
night the show ended
晚上節目結束的時間
so I got home a little late.
所以我回到家就有點晚了。
I've been studying the technology world,
我一直在研究科技世界,
commentator referring to today.
在探討這些現象。
that I'm going to focus on.
each one of these is a hypothesis;
它們通通都只是假設;
of hypotheses now for about 10 months,
is that I've been exposing them
very hard to debunk them.
我們就有機會弄清楚。
a chance of figuring this out.
this is fairly obvious --
as a company has many things it can do
微軟這間公司能做很多事
and the only one you need to know
你們只需要了解這個指標
basically taken Windows
智慧手機已經取代了 Windows,
devices 3 or 4 years ago,
有 96% 是 Windows 的,
probably about a year and a half from now.
就會落到 30% 以下。
and crank the price there.
Exchange,並調高價格。
software, which is related to it --
與其相關的企業版軟體——
of billions of dollars in revenue.
有數千億美元。
a jump ball for that revenue.
訂定市場的遊戲規則。
is not growing that rapidly,
那麼快速的情況下,
way to create room for new industries.
最簡單的方法就是淘汰某些公司。
are going to come from.
knife commercial, there's more!
刀具廣告說的一樣,還不只如此!
is not the only company
across the railroad tracks today.
90% of all search volume
有 90% 是索引搜尋,
Google 可能太成功了,
that the index became full of garbage.
充滿了垃圾。
has become full of garbage.
almost a digital Detroit.
幾乎變成了數位的底特律。
compelling things there.
you can get mugged.
你可能也會被洗劫一番。
and everyone else out there
以及外面的所有人,
the things we want to find.
來找我們要找的東西。
for matters of taste and money;
做比較不專業的事;
Yelp for restaurants,
Yelp 處理餐廳,
Dictionary.com for words,
Dictionary.com 查單字,
plenty of ways to respond
在事業成長方面
is recover its position
Google came along in 1998,
而無人主導的世界。
provided leadership
all forms of content.
形式的內容給商品化。
is to look at a Google results page:
Google 的搜尋結果頁:
has been tremendous for Google
使 Google 佔有巨大的優勢,
order, it is over --
but because, like word processing,
application we all had,
other ways to find what they want.
找到得其所需的其他方式。
on a cell phone,
is a small fraction on cell phones
比率只有一點點。
that Google's recovery, if you will,
領導位置的重要指標
is no longer controversial,
to understand what happened.
is the open-source World Wide Web,
是開放原始碼的全球資訊網,
那裡有巨型數位商店,
有品牌的、貼心的、加值的、
with branded, thoughtful, value-added,
an also-ran in computers
已從後段班脫胎換骨,
100 million internet-enabled devices.
將會達到近一億台。
about who he lets in.
imagine Georgia in the Civil War. OK?
Web 是蔣斯頓將軍。
「老天,我們得重返。」
they have to sacrifice Google.
the pendulum of technology
商業利潤頂到極限,
who spent their whole lives
有娛樂性質節目的人,
compelling entertainment
報章雜誌的人,
引人入勝小說的人,
if Google's over here, and Apple's here,
Google 在這裡,Apple 在這裡,
將會與 Apple 抗衡。」
to be on the other side of Apple."
commoditization versus the App Store,
商品化對抗 App Store,
and highly differentiated content.
高度差異化的內容網頁。
let me help you understand.
讓我協助各位了解一下,
to construct a web page
embedded interactivity,
都有內建的互動性功能,
whatever it is that you want.
你要什麼就有什麼。
opens up a new canvas.
up for The New York Times,
a differentiated, highly compelling,
even monetizable -- product
is, thanks to Apple,
can do about you.
but I don't think they will.
但我不認為他們會。
where we're going to stop
of hypercommoditization are behind us.
日子已經過去了。
how I'm doing it personally.
of why Windows is dead.
沒戲唱的另一個原因。
so I have no axe in this,
所以我舉這例子沒有個人因素,
you cannot possibly understand
is that the other players on this thing,
Palm's webOS that HP's shipping
Palm WebOS 裝置;
Apple wins this thing
to what they have on the iPod
50 to 100 billion dollars bigger
再成長 500~1000 億美金。
else even challenging them.
有任何人能挑戰他們。
Apple 的成本結構
favorable relative to everybody else,
有任何手機業者,
any of the cell phone guys,
exceed the retail price
to leave you with
has most of its money in Facebook.
是個資金大部分都投入臉書的人。
you are looking for.
so much bigger than this.
比這還要大很多。
Yelp, Skype, LinkedIn --
Yelp、Skype、領英——
than what Facebook has.
都得要循著 Zynga 的模式,
to have to follow the Zynga model.
subordinate to the platform of Facebook.
anything successful off of Facebook,
建立任何成功的產品,
of why this platform is so powerful.
為何如此強大的關鍵指標。
建立新創公司,就把它建在臉書上,
in the social world,
I can give you.
of advice is: forget social.
it's not a platform.
"Embed gamification into everything."
I believe in full-contact investing.
我相信全參與式的投資。
about a year ago, and I said,
看了 HTML 5 之後說:
How do I find out?"
我如何知道的?」
did an album with T Bone Burnett,
合作灌了一張專輯,
a huge hit and blah, blah, blah ...
hippie music done by old folks, so --
老人做的嬉皮音樂,所以——
went on Facebook and Twitter.
放上臉書和推特。
called "Twittercasts,"
接著再播預先錄好的,
and then prerecorded concerts,
the same thing we're using here today,
就像我們今天在這裡做的,
以網路為基礎的現場影片。
live video of our shows.
a satellite network.
of what our manager used to cost.
我們雇用一個經理三個月。
every one of our shows --
演出都會做轉播——
within the next month.
即將於下個月推出。
our website is being upgraded to HTML 5.
我們的網站已經升級為 HTML 5。
from any phone, anywhere,
實況轉播過的歌曲,
有 150 或 200 場。
nothing to do this.
幾乎是不用成本的。
than most people,
more than most people who are 55.
55 歲的人知道更多。
who live in this world,
to use these platforms
that's built around that.
是以創意為中心的。
for every single show.
every show, we have painters.
每一場演出,我們有畫家。
that creativity has been stifled,
創意已經被扼殺一陣子了,
of American culture --
to be educated,
on ritual and beliefs, instead of facts.
going to do us a favor.
the tools to make us independent.
and Facebook had.
什麼都是應用程式。
gets replaced by this thing
數位底特律被取代掉了,
is an instance of a store.
on the New York Times Book Review.
像是《紐約時報書評》上。
and satisfy it in the same place.
創造需求並滿足客戶。
and you go off sites and you lose people,
踏出電梯,人就不見了——
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Roger McNamee - Tech investorTen years from now we will interact with the internet in completely different ways. Roger McNamee identifies six changes that are already transforming the ways we consume and create content.
Why you should listen
Roger McNamee has been an investor in science and tech for close to 30 years. His 2004 book -- The New Normal: Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk -- offers business strategies based on the economic and technological trends that are defining this era. He also plays guitar and bass in the band Moonalice, a band known for its clever use of social media.
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