People in the information age are increasingly divided into interactive populations, the former involved in knowledge production and creation, and passive populations, which receive only information。
If the chinese in the 1990s thought that money was the most important, and the new century began with time the most precious, today's era is undoubtedly the most precious of information. The problems of learning, living and working asymmetrical information are particularly acute today, in which the web-based question-and-answer community “knows” has launched a “value” product to pay for answers, and “in the line” has introduced a “discounting” application for pay-for-answers, with high interest as a number of public figures and well-known institutions enter the “distribution”. Whether you accept it or not, the age of payment of knowledge comes。
According to data from the china youth journal social survey centre, 63. 6 per cent of respondents supported payment for knowledge and 73. 9 per cent paid for answers to a question. However, there are still many who do not adapt to, or even consider unnecessary, “buy” knowledge online。
Payment for knowledge is an inevitable trend in the information age. There are concerns that paying for knowledge can result in inequality among users of the network due to economic factors. Indeed, internet penetration of knowledge is increasing, and we have easier access to all types of information. However, the amount of information does not correspond to the accuracy and depth of knowledge, which is the main source of information services for which knowledge is paid。
In my view, there are roughly two models of network-based knowledge: one model is characterized by the full breadth of information, and the other one seeks profound innovation in information. The former is typical of wikipedia, which is rich and informative, and it is the integration of human knowledge. Despite its rapid updating, web sites such as wikipedia remain static knowledge providers and do not allow for in-depth analysis of specific issues. Such models also tend to use free services, with information uploading and sharing without financial returns. However, an increasing number of people are no longer satisfied with universal access to information, and if what they want to know is easily available in 100 degrees and google, the intellectual elite will no longer exist. Targeted payment for knowledge is undoubtedly the best option for those who aspire to more accurate and cutting-edge information。
Knowledge is static and its evolution is dynamic. It is often experts and industry elites in this field who capture the dynamics of knowledge, a capability that is currently beyond the grasp of the machine. Therefore, many of the questions we have seen about “separation” and “know-how” payments are related to topics of forward-looking and trend analysis, and the answer to such questions must be based on in-depth research and extensive relevant experience in the relevant areas。
“what is the economy of china in the second half of 2016?” “what is the experience of rich two-generation entrepreneurship?” “what do you think is most important as a success?” for these types of trends and experiences, static knowledge websites can provide only some data, examples, graphs, rather than specific individualized analyses. This trend analysis, based on expertise or personal experience, is clearly valuable, and the attraction of paying for knowledge is here。
Of course, as the world of the internet has a decentrized character, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of noise in knowledge questions and answers, but while the only authority has been abated, in today's increasingly detailed academic and professional history, there are many web-based “big v” languages at the point of the countless knowledge trees. In paying for knowledge, “big v” has a far greater impact than ordinary respondents. As the american scholar manuel caster put it in the trilogy of the information age, the population of the information age is increasingly divided into interactive and passive populations, the former involved in knowledge production and creation, and the latter simply receiving information. Knowledge-based “big v” groups are groups with organizational and intellectual capability that may gradually replace traditional teachers, elders and books。
In a mature market economy, payment for knowledge is an equivalent price exchange in the spirit of contract, as is internet shopping and tutoring. If you want to get some information, pay the corresponding price; if you want to make a profit, try to be an elite in a certain field, helping more people with their knowledge and experience。
In this evolution, people may need some time to adapt to pay for knowledge. After all, our awareness of knowledge protection is rather lacking and we are more accustomed to free access to information online. Indeed, a certain level of economic return would also prompt the “big v” to produce more exclusive “dry goods”, a process that is clearly win-win。
