年輕人該負起的責任

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這幾年來確實台灣的經濟環境變得很差，如果說是失落的十年，那我們這十年錯過了什麼？

1980-90 年代，台積電, 宏碁, 華碩替台灣建立了半導體以及個人電腦的經濟體，讓台灣賺進了大量的外匯，也擠身亞洲四小龍，那時也奠定了科技島的美譽。那時的時空背景會這麼成功的原因是我們與國際接軌了，我們在跟美國矽谷的創新作了一樣的事情，我們走的是朝陽的產業，是未來獲利十分看好的產業。

2000年代，.com網路產業興起，從美國湧起的Yahoo, eBay，這時台灣沒有缺席，Kimo, yam, PChome帶領台灣面對挑戰，雖然後來Kimo被Yahoo收購, yam變得比較沒這麼影響力，PChome後來經過幾次轉型變成大型的網路購物平台，這些網路公司都帶來台灣非常優秀的研發能量，這些技術力一樣是跟國際接軌的。

2005年左右，Web走向2.0時代，內容分享變成重點，搜尋引擎龍頭Google在矽谷發跡，中國大陸的百度也在之後藉由主打中國市場也被創立了，Youtube讓大家上傳有趣的影片，電腦桌變成家裡的客廳，中國出了土豆網，台灣也出了個無名小站，一群還沒畢業的交大學生讓台灣發光發熱，在這個平台上捧紅了很多網路作家。

2008年開始，社群網路崛起，Facebook席捲全球，中國人人網，日本mixi相繼出頭。台灣這次沒有人成功。或許是國內人口數沒這麼多，社群網站發展不起來。不過人口數，文化背景並不是絕對先天上的劣勢，Rovio在2011憑著Angry bird席捲全球，芬蘭國家只有500萬人，我們有2000萬人口，我們一定也有機會！

2010年，智慧手機的App經濟體被蘋果賈伯斯所建立完成。全世界的人都對它開啓了掏金夢，Rovio因為Angry bird市值56億英鎊，Instagram 十億美金被Facebook收購, Omgpop因為DrawSomething被Zynga以2.1億收購。這次台灣尚未發生一個巨額的併購案，或是因為App而締造一個產業，不過周遭很多聲音都在努力着，期待他們成功的發生。

創新的事業是由年輕人所創造的，如果年輕人過得很辛苦而又不肯站出來突破，告訴世界我們要的是怎樣的生活，那又有誰能保證你十年後會過得怎樣呢？ 如果是不敢冒險，那麼二三十年前的年輕人又有誰能成功呢？我們現在能過的尚有一定水準其實是他們給的...以前的年輕人或許害怕未來會與對岸戰死而勇敢冒險，而我們卻因為害怕失敗而不敢冒險，勇敢點～～放手一搏吧！就算一百個人只有一個人成功，成功的人還是會張開雙手歡迎失敗者的，因為他知道在挑戰未來的路途中，我們是一起走過來的夥伴。

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