In "What kind of websites will be the most profitable in the future (3)" , I pointed out that the establishment of a virtual world is the real result of the "Internet revolution".
Now it’s crystal clear for Business Startup Labs what the future of the internet will look like.
The future Internet will have two general directions. One is to sell real-world goods (including services, etc.), represented by e-commerce. The other is to create something of value, represented by the virtual world.
The focus of e-commerce is to build a simple and convenient system so that everyone can use it, regardless of whether the person uses the Internet or not. E-commerce is the general trend. As long as mankind does not die and the Internet still exists, this system will continue to be improved and emerge.
In contrast, the virtual world is an initiative that can be called "revolutionary". It may also be the greatest achievement in human history.
We have always believed that we are divided into spirit and material, but spirit is different from matter. The Business Entrepreneurship Laboratory believes that spirit is acquired and is "artificial". Therefore, the spirit is easy to die, and because of this, human spiritual development has always lagged behind material development. Not much has changed in thousands of years.
Now, the emergence of the virtual world has opened a door to the spiritual world. In a world where material becomes secondary, what will happen to human beings? This is a subject worth looking forward to and studying. More importantly, the human world will definitely change as a result. It's unclear what changes there will be.
Even if we remove the exciting expectation that the virtual world will change the world, the value of the virtual world is still incalculable.
The only two profit models of the Internet are selling goods (services) in traditional reality and creating valuable items. Compared with selling traditional real-world goods, it is easier and more profitable to create valuable items. For example, Tencent's value-added services such as QQ membership, blue diamond, yellow diamond, virtual clothes, etc., the cost of adding a member is almost zero, and all the gains are pure profits. But QQ membership and other things themselves have no value. What makes these things valuable is QQ's virtual community. And this kind of virtual community is also a form of virtual world.
QQ's virtual community is still only the most primitive form of the virtual world. We still don’t know what the virtual world will look like. However, for the virtual world to be accepted by people, it must provide "value" to people and provide the value that people expect.
It is precisely because we see that the virtual world can provide these values that the Business Entrepreneurship Laboratory discovered that the virtual world is the most promising "website" in the future that we have been looking for. Materials in the real world are limited, and it is impossible to satisfy everyone's needs and desires. This is exactly what the virtual world can do; the real world is full of risks, and one mistake may be fatal, which prevents everyone from trying new things. This is exactly what the virtual world can do; in the real world, people cannot decide their own destiny and appearance, this is exactly what the virtual world can do... It is the virtual world that can make up for these regrets that real life has given us. Yes, this is the basis for the existence of the virtual world. The only question is, what form should the virtual world take? This is where we, the website owners, have the opportunity to create the future.