The shift in thinking from the abstract God to the concrete human being is attributed in the West to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Whereas previously we had found the starting point of all thought in God, Kant came to understand that our perception of things is immediately influenced by our sensory organs, so that we cannot understand the nature of things through reason alone. The limits of reason were thus clarified. It was thought that although matter itself could be understood, the principles and secrets of matter could not be known. This idea gave birth to quantum mechanics in physics. To understand the term quantum mechanics, it is useful to look at the words “quantum” and “mechanics” separately. The English word quantum, translated as “quantum,” comes from the word quantity, which means quantity. Mechanics literally means “the study of force,” but it’s actually the theory of force and motion. Quantum mechanics is driving the emergence of quantum smartphones, revealing quantum structures at the submicroscopic level, and leading to remarkable advances in the global bio industry.
What quantum mechanics needs as a material tool is philosophical thought. We therefore express the need for an age of quantum philosophy. We believe that quantum philosophy is the best language for understanding and judging the purpose and direction of a hyper-personalized life compared to dazzling technological advances. Our thought structure and direction are usually expressed in terms of keywords. The keywords that portal companies such as Yahoo, Naver, and Google have been interested in are the keywords that humans have created with their thoughts, but they are now saturated. It’s time to go beyond the macro and pay attention to the micro. It is a way to think of human beings as a whole universe, and to think about and solve the very essence of human beings: human problems, human problems, and human problems with viruses.
“The opposite of true is false. But the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.” These are the words of Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum physics. Bohr proposed the Bohr model, which states that electrons in an atom stably orbit the nucleus, but can jump to different energy levels, and played a major role in the development of quantum physics by summarizing the principle of complementarity, which states that atomic phenomena are both particles and waves.
The statement that light is both a particle and a wave was nonsense in the phenomenal world, but in the atomic world, they are complementary. Niels Bohr’s ideas are naturally in line with philosophical thought. Especially at the intersection of Chinese and Indian philosophy and modern science. Bohr himself saw his theory as harmonizing with the paradigms of Eastern philosophy. It is in line with Confucius’ Confucianism. Confucius proposed “relationship” through virtual consciousness, Mencius proposed “self-determination” in a fickle world, Lao Tzu proposed “influence” in the world we create, Zhuangzi proposed “improvisation” in a changing world, Sun Tzu proposed “humanity” to govern the world, and countless other decentralized thoughts such as Mencius, Yangzi, and Guanzi have been passed down on a micro level. The time is ripe for the data of quantum philosophy to emerge as an Eastern community that encompasses Western capitalism.
The space-centered sharing culture of Uber, Airbnb, etc. is declining, and the time-efficient and virtual space culture is growing. In particular, travel, food, transportation, and accommodation are declining, and online games, home delivery services, and internet shopping are emerging, as well as online education, remote work, online healthcare, online shopping for non-standard products, short videos, and live broadcasts. The “home economy” is taking off.
With the advent of the broadband-based 5G era, the number of users in online entertainment, online education, and online healthcare is increasing in a short period of time. In particular, students and parents are increasingly learning online, and Yonsei University is planning to transition to an open education system by opening online courses to the public in 2021. The expansion of online healthcare is also noteworthy. With the emergence of specialized platforms in the medical field, various medical examinations are conducted, and the online sector is expected to take off. In particular, online medical platforms will be more helpful in increasing the credibility of doctors through collaboration with offline hospitals.
Home appliances and clothing have the potential to expand further from the current 40% utilization level. Fresh food is a non-standardized product, and consumer experience is important, so it is expected to expand further, even though it is currently only 11% online. In particular, consumption of immunity-boosting health foods (dairy products, health products, etc.), health appliances (air purifiers, sanitizers, cell phone cleaners, water purifiers, steam mops, etc.), medical products with disinfection and immunity properties (masks, disinfectants, hand sanitizers, etc.), and frozen foods are expected to increase.
The massive spread of telecommuting could further expand the locally-oriented consumption system. The increase in various consumption habits currently centered on the workplace will lead to a shift towards consumption centered on the local area where one lives. In particular, it will change the culture of neighborhood shopping centers that are used offline. In the case of the Korean metropolitan area, which is dominated by apartment housing culture, the pattern of consumption culture centered on apartment dense areas will increase significantly as the proportion of convenient, fast, simple, and direct consumption methods at home increases. Non-standardized products (real estate, automobiles, etc.) that were difficult to sell online in the past are also expected to shift to online consumption, expanding the online real estate REIT culture in Korea. This shift from offline to online will further revitalize the new “homeconomy” (宅經濟).
In China, where the Internet and mobile are almost synonymous, the Internet penetration rate in China in the first half of 2019 was 61.2%, with 854 million users, and the number of mobile Internet users was 847 million, accounting for 99% of netizens. The growing proportion of internet-savvy younger generations (Generation Z, born after 1995, 300 million) shows that China, once the world’s factory, is becoming an outpost for the creation of a new consumption culture through mobile. The global economy is now shifting from measuring utility in space to time. Money will follow suit, shifting to a time-centered measure of value.