I have always had two judgments:

First, the era of knowledge payment is coming;

Second, questions will be more important than answers.

Recently, there is a very popular Internet product called Fenda. On this platform, it costs one yuan to listen to knowledge, but interestingly, people who jointly produce this knowledge, that is, questioners and respondents, can share the money equally. This kind of interaction is very fun. Starting from tomorrow, you can ask questions to me or my invited friends here. Choose an excellent question to answer every day, and let Fenda platform make money for you.

If you are a member of Luo Ji Thinking, all the income generated in the first month, including my share, is yours. For three and a half years, my users and I have been shaping each other. I know what a great group of people you are in contemporary China, so this time we will work together to prove to the market through Fenda.

First, the better people ask questions;

Second, knowledge will become more and more valuable.

Kevin kelly: Questions are more powerful than answers.

"The human mode of thinking always asks questions for answers. The answer is more important than the question. China people who are tortured by the examination room always demand the correct answers and brush their sense of existence with the right ones.

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When "impossible" becomes "possible"

In the past, it was impossible for human beings to get something for nothing. Today, Internet-based economic achievements, such as Wikipedia, are completely created by volunteers for free.

In the past, it was almost impossible for us to get a free answer from the big coffee. Now, what was once considered "impossible" has become possible.

But why now? What broke the ancient boundary between "possible" and "impossible"?

In my opinion, all the "impossible" things that happened today reflect a new and higher-level structure. Group structures such as Wikipedia, Linux, Facebook, Uber, the Internet, and even artificial intelligence can accomplish things that human beings cannot accomplish in the industrial age. They are the result of large-scale cooperation and a lot of real-time social interaction.

In fact, in the process of human evolution, new forms of social structure have been invented. For example, with written records and laws, justice that cannot be achieved in primates, close relatives of human beings, becomes "possible"; The cooperation between irrigation and agricultural systems has produced more "impossible" things-prediction, preparation in advance and sensitivity to the future.

It is these social tools that make us human and make our behavior "impossible" from the perspective of animals.

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The development of science and ignorance

Science contains a paradox: every answer will breed at least two new questions.

So the more tools you use, the more answers you will have and the more corresponding questions you will have. Telescopes, radiation mirrors and particle accelerators have expanded what we don't know; Exploring the "dark matter" and "dark energy" of the universe and studying human brain science make us have to admit our ignorance.

We used to think that if knowledge grows exponentially, we should be able to eliminate confusion soon. However, the reality is that the number of problems will also increase exponentially at a faster rate. The widening gap between the two exponential curves is exponential in itself. This gap is our ignorance, which is multiplying.

In other words, as a means, science mainly increases our ignorance rather than knowledge.

It can be expected that future technologies such as artificial intelligence, gene manipulation and quantum computing will release new questions one after another, that is, questions we never thought to ask.

However, we haven't asked the most important question yet.

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The answer becomes cheap and the question becomes valuable.

We are moving towards a future life, in which we ask hundreds of questions every day.

Every year, people ask as many as 2 trillion questions on the Internet, and search engines give a corresponding number of answers. Most of the answers are of high quality, and many of them are amazing.

The "production cost" of each answer will be negligible. The answer will no longer be a luxury, but a necessity for everyone in the world.

Answers will become cheaper and questions will become more valuable.

Pablo Picasso wisely predicted this result in 1964. He said, "Computers are useless. They can only give you the answer. "

Therefore, a world full of super-intelligent answers encourages people to pursue good questions.

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What is a good question?

A good question is worth 6,543.8+0,000 good answers.

A good question is like Einstein asking himself when he was a child: "If you travel with light, what will you see?" This problem opens up the theory of relativity, the mass-energy equation E = MC 2 and the atomic age.

A good question can't be answered immediately.

A good question challenges the existing answer.

A good question has nothing to do with getting the right answer.

When a good question comes up, you want to answer it as soon as you hear it, but you don't know you care until you ask it.

A good question creates a new field of thinking.

Good questions. Reconstruct your answers.

A good question is the seeds of innovation in science, technology, art, politics and business.

Good questions are exploration, imagination and speculation, which will bring differences and differences.

A good question is on the edge of the known and the unknown, which is neither stupid nor obvious.

A good question is unpredictable.

The good question is what the machine will learn in the end.

A good question represents an educated mind.

A good question can produce many other good questions.

We always need facts, order and answers. They did not leave, but, like microorganisms and concrete materials, became a cornerstone of civilization.

However, the most active, valuable and productive side of life and technology will be at the forefront, on the edge of uncertainty, chaos, mobility and various problems.

The technology that can generate answers will continue to be valued, so that answers will become instant, reliable, ubiquitous and almost free. But the technology that can help us create problems will gain more favor.

Asking questions is more powerful than answering.