Chapter 73 Internet should be used for learning knowledge

On the Internet, we often see terms such as "garbage in, garbage out" (GIGO=garbage in, garbage out).It means "if your input is garbage, then your output can only be garbage".That is to say, if the data entered into the computer is garbage (referring to wrong data), the output must be useless data. This is a well-known theory in computer data processing. In short, no matter what you search on the computer, if you search in the wrong way, then the answer you get must be wrong. From this alone, it can be concluded that those who think that Google has taken away people's thinking ability are wrong. of.

In the BBT graduate school I founded, or in the school I run, the first course I taught was how to use Google. As a result, students who use this method well sometimes find some very interesting answers. Sometimes I have to boast that they have really used the knowledge they have learned to the extreme. In the online world, there is no such thing as "go down in the order of 1, 2, 3 and you will get the answer".So it can be said that network retrieval is a tool that can determine the outcome in an instant. It will be miserable if you are misled by the Internet once you make a wrong judgment, because you have to find an answer that does not exist from the plethora of information, which is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, so this has become the commandment of the "Internet Dojo". "Cyber ​​Road" is so ruthless.

Even so, compared with real-world retrieval, web retrieval has absolute advantages in speed and efficiency.In today's world, human beings store a large amount of information and knowledge on the Internet, and the amount of information on the Internet is beyond the reach of libraries.You can retrieve the desired information while sitting at home, nothing is more convenient than this. Therefore, some people now think that "the Internet has super retrieval capabilities, and human beings no longer need to remember something like before, and human beings' current knowledge has become barren as a result."

In my opinion, the time spent searching for information online should now be devoted to thinking.In this way, human beings will gradually become smarter, and the above conclusions will be completely subverted.But those who hold that point of view, none of them will really do that, at most they will attribute their lack of knowledge to the inertia of human beings. But the question of whether today's Japanese are becoming that is irrelevant to the Internet. I will go to the Cyber ​​Graduate School to give a lecture round every month.At the meeting, I introduced to the students some books that are worth reading in today's Internet age, such as "New Concept", "New Marketing", "Web Evolution", "Crowdsourcing" and so on.

But I don't just recommend a few books to everyone at the roundtable. Normally, people read a book once and they're done.Most of the time, even books that take a long time to read, once you close the book, you forget about it over time. “If it takes 1 hour to read a book, spend about 5 hours thinking about what the book is about? What does it mean for me? What does it mean for our company? " Thinking is more important than reading; it is more important to think about the content of the previous book than to read the next one.In the same way, compared with retrieval, it is more important to think about the object of retrieval and how to use the retrieval content.Therefore, I will ask students to discuss after reading a book.In this way, students will also express their feelings after reading.

Of course, I would like to add a little bit of my opinion here. It is necessary to review the books you have read frequently, and this approach is exactly what is needed in the Internet age.If we don't understand the book or want to know more about the relevant content in the book, we can go to the Internet to search slowly, so that we can learn many times more knowledge and opinions than a book. Go to the professor for advice, this is what the Internet age needs. However, if you don't know how to use the Internet, it will be troublesome.It is no exaggeration to say that if you do not use the Internet, you will lose many opportunities.

Combining what we learn from books, what we learn on the Internet, and what we learn through discussions can improve our "collective IQ." In short, the Internet age requires us to do the same, and I did the same, and I learned a lot of knowledge, got inspired, and sprouted some ideas and ideas that I had never had before. Now is an era in which all kinds of information are exchanged and shared, and people's IQ is being significantly improved, and only compound talents can promote the development of the times. In short, the Internet is an indispensable tool for improving collective IQ.The network society does not belong to a certain person. Only when everyone participates and improves each other can this society develop normally.