Global IT industry has entered the stage of universal application

IT is in fission, by 2020, the annual output value of the global information technology market will grow to $20 trillion.

Along with the popularization of information technology, information industry reform is accelerating, the market scale is expanding.

University of California modern American economics professor Vance Feldman in his new book, "IT" pointed out: "after turning the facts will prove that IT is still infinite charm, true digital revolution has just begun." In fact, with the popularization of information technology, the information industry is also accelerating the pace of change.

A major turning point in information technology

Information technology itself will be a major turning point, isolated hardware, software and applications will be networked and service development. The world will become a resource sharing, collaborative work of the global information network (also known as the global grid). The information network will become the necessary service for the public to work and live like electricity and telephone. Through the ubiquitous sensors and access devices, the physical world, information networks, human society, such as the 3 worlds will be connected to form a digital society. The network effect will be brought into full play, and the value of information technology will increase with the increase of the number of households.

Market demand for information technology will be a major turning point, from the public awareness of the stage to the widespread popularity of transition. The next 20 years, the theme of the development of information technology is widely used in the whole society.

The economic threshold and the threshold of knowledge of information technology will also be greatly reduced, the user base will be multiplied by the expansion of the middle class from the current knowledge of primary and secondary school students, workers, farmers and retirees. Low cost, easy to use, easy to spread will become the main features of popular products and services. Technology providers will no longer be solely functional and performance as the main competitiveness, technology centric approach will gradually give way to a user centric model.

Era of digital convergence

As early as the end of the last century in 80s, the insight that the era of digital technology is coming. With the chip computing faster and faster, broadband access to more users of the family, a unified Internet standards have been produced, the technology has been a trend of integration of the tide. In the early 90s of last century, once quite popular personal digital assistant (PDA) has been gradually eliminated, the phone instead of its function. In fact, in the middle of the 90s, digital products blurred the boundaries between technology and consumer electronics.

Since then the development shows that the digital age has brought a collision and amalgamation of industry in 3 areas, the first is $1 trillion and 100 billion worth of computer and software industry, leading the company in this field; the second is $225 billion worth of consumer electronic products manufacturing industry, the field is largely rooted in Asian soil. Part Chinese company's strength growing; the third area is the communications industry $2 trillion and 200 billion, including the leader of Asia and Europe wireless communications department and the Silicon Valley giant network. Today, the above 3 areas are working together to build a digital future.

However, in any of these areas, including any company, it is impossible to monopolize all services. They need each other's support and cooperation, so all companies are trying to cross the boundaries, trying to create a new field to deal with new competitors.

Experts believe that the integration of different fields will produce a big bang. In the next few years, today's lab drawings will likely turn into thousands of new computer technology products and web services. Even if most of the attempts fail, a few technical breakthroughs could create new companies and change the way people live and work. The McKinsey Global Institute of technology President Makri Linton pointed out: "the upcoming IT will change, and after the commercial aircraft flight make people of different groups are more convenient than the important link, digital integration and transformation have spawned a large turbulent era of information society".

Some people predict that maybe one day, the world's leading personal computer vendors will join DELL flat-panel TV producer; CISCO launched the Wi-Fi access device can carry, join this trend is not limited to technology enterprises. Japanese TV makers and South Korean mobile phone makers are also competing to launch their own microprocessors and software products, all of which are trying to become a giant in the digital marketplace.

Digital life taoshengyijiu

January 4, 2005 in the United States held in Las Vegas, the world's consumer electronics show, Microsoft chairman Bill Gate speech at the seminar, elaborated the future prospects of digital home. The exhibition shows the new appliance of the information age, these products contain a large number of modern high-tech achievements, especially the application of network technology in household appliances, so that visitors eye-opening as the acme of perfection.

Not only Microsoft planning, more and more businesses are all eager for a fight in IT. The world's largest semiconductor chip maker Intel vice president Xiao Mulian said, according to the information technology is a wave of development, the information technology industry to benefit the entire Internet wave after wave, promote the development of the information technology industry will be a digital lifestyle to the office and the home as the main content of the digital.

Intel's survey of end users