The “drilling ” is presented on the basis of the “internet ” idea, which involves various fields in economic society. Under the new normal of equal stress on resources and environment with geological survey investment decreasing year by year, new bottleneck appears for the traditional geological drilling work. The future drilling project should be combined with society development and livelihood geological work, drilling development model should be innovated in geothermal and other new energy exploration, medical geology survey and evaluation, disaster geology survey and monitoring and urban underground space development and utilization to optimize the combination of drilling technologies and the research on compound drilling technology to achieve convenient, high efficiency, low energy consumption and high quality drilling. Combined with the current situation, the idea of “drilling ” and the main works of livelihood geology are introduced in this paper, and the suggestions are put forward for the related flied and development direction of future drilling engineering.