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"Thanks, Sandman, I think I'm still tired."

Price hung up the phone.

Opposite is the Sandman, who is also his best friend.

Since being selected for SAS this year, a joint action between Price and the other party has led to a deep friendship between the two parties.

Later, when he heard about Unit 141, Sandman recommended them.

Of course, "Sandman" is just a code name.

The "Sandman Squad" consists of Sandman, Truck, Ghost, and Frost. They stood out from Sean Conte's men and became active soldiers on the battlefield.

For this team, Price's most profound influence...uh...should be Frost's Crow's Mouth, right?

Whatever comes comes, many times, encountering the enemy like this is extremely painful.

But... everything changed with a car accident in May this year.

After learning that his wife had an accident, Price no longer had any thoughts.

Price just wants to get back to his wife.

In Price's view, his life can be dedicated to the country and he can die on the battlefield. However, at this time, it was not Price who was in trouble...but his wife.

After returning to the UK, Price came to the hospital.

At that time, my wife was out of danger.

But the doctor told Price: Be prepared that the other person will never wake up.

Never... can wake up...

Price found it hard to accept.

In his opinion, the reason why such a thing happened to his wife was entirely due to his own negligence!

Price can’t forgive himself!

He decided to stay and atone for his sins.

And this is the best way...

Just stay here.

Take care of your wife.

Although being recommended to the 141st Special Forces Group was a very honorable thing, Price no longer cared. In his opinion, it was precisely because of this thing that such a thing happened to his wife!

After saying goodbye to Sandman, Price sighed.

However, at this moment, the phone rang again.

"Hello."

Price's voice was full of exhaustion.

"Mr. Price, this is the Hive Laboratory."

"Hive...laboratory?"

It seems that the Hive Laboratory is not actually very famous. The reputation in a specific area does not mean that the Hive is known to everyone.

"We are very sorry about your wife... However, we now have the latest technology... Maybe you can..."

…

Looking at the time, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. Catherine yawned and continued browsing the Internet.

"What a quiet year."

Catherine yawned, it seemed like nothing happened this year.

If anything, something similar to the Plaza Accord is likely to be signed soon. On the other side, the Soviet Union and the Americans are preparing to engage in a global disarmament.

But speaking of it...does this have anything to do with us?

As for the previous matter, Catherine has already speculated, but other than that, this will not have much substantive impact on Catherine.

Catherine's Chinese factory is about to be put into production, which means that Catherine's labor costs, etc., will be greatly reduced. These cuts can minimize the impact of the depreciation of the US dollar and the appreciation of the yen on Catherine.

.On the other hand, the design I have here is because I have a hand in Japan. This matter is actually beneficial to Catherine.

"Has Price been in contact with our people now?"

Catherine asked again.

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ses…?”

Elsa looked at the plan from the school district, but looked at Catherine suspiciously.

"You mean Price?"

Elsa heard Catherine asking.

"Yes, what do you think of him?"

"This man is British. For us, the impact should be relatively small, but... are you sure he will deliver the news for us?"

Elsa was a little confused.

"This man just entered SAS. Then his wife was involved in a car accident. He was very young, even younger than McMillan. But he wanted to retire so persistently. This shows that his wife must be very important in this man's heart."

Her wife has become a vegetative state. In other words, this is Catherine's chance.

Although there is no big event this year, Catherine feels that there may be something big in another month.

"And more importantly, we didn't ask each other to do anything extraordinary. I don't even want to know about the situation of Unit 141. I just want to know something that interests me... That's it."

What Catherine was interested in... was naturally the culprit.

In Catherine's view, the 141st Special Forces Team would indeed be a very good channel.

"Moreover, we'd better know what the situation is like early on, otherwise, if something goes wrong, it will be difficult. We will be prepared in advance."

Catherine blinked.

Indeed, if Catherine is prepared, some things will become very simple.

There is nothing wrong with Catherine's current technology to create a replaceable cyber body.

And it is even possible to plastic surgery a person into any shape you want.

Come on, the technology of cyber bodies, in Catherine's opinion, is her achievement.

As for other aspects, Catherine felt that it was nothing.

For example, the "tempered carbon nanotube fiber" material.

This material, in the original world, had a very similar material called "reinforced iron rubber". Catherine also had a similar prototype, and then developed tempered carbon nanotube fiber materials and softened carbon nanotube fibers. Materials come from.

If there is any achievement that Catherine has achieved in this regard, it is that she turned a product from a laboratory into mass production.

As for other places, as for the "sun tree", "alcoholic car" and the like, these are all traceable in the original world.

It's just that in the original world, these technologies were not developed, but at this time, Catherine had developed such technologies.

Catherine is not an inventor in this regard. She is a pioneer.

The original "technology tree" already had technology in this area, and what Catherine did was to light up the technology.

"I believe that the replacement protein should be able to kill the other party's wife. In this case, we can exchange some information on this. This is very beneficial to us..."

Catherine squinted her eyes.

Although the name Price sounds familiar, this person is indeed someone he can support.

"The other party is struggling now... But don't worry, we still have at least a month... Speaking of which, as long as I don't lift the martial law in the Hive Laboratory, I think the number of attacks we may encounter will be reduced."

Catherine is very optimistic about this.

"I hope so. All in all, our most important thing in this regard is to guard against the masterminds behind the scenes."

Catherine nodded.

"I suspect there's probably something wrong with...like...the school district? Or..."

A possibility suddenly flashed in Catherine's mind!

"John Smith!"

Although Catherine has the cyber body of John Smith, if it is an internal enemy, they may have obtained relevant information from the CIA!

"Sure enough, the fortress is the easiest to break through from the inside..."

However, Catherine did nothing about it.

"The problem is John Smith?"

Elsa asked.

"Very possible."

"But aren't you going to go on and do something?"

Elsa asked.

"No, I don't need to do anything, now. As long as we stay the same to cope with the changes, this is the best way."

Catherine squinted her eyes.

"But speaking of it, we still have a month. Now let's deal with some other things and confuse the other party by the way!"

Let the enemy think that Catherine has given up on this.

Of course, also for the further development of the company...

"Oh, right."

Elsa picked up the report she had read before.

"What about this MOOC plan?"

"Huh? What's wrong?" The MOOC plan is an established matter of the school district. On the one hand, it is used to promote the school district. On the other hand, it is used to promote the Internet.

massive-open-online-cou

ses. That is, massive open online courses.

The idea came from another time - in other words, Catherine's time.

As for today's world, there are no online courses at all.

Don’t forget about online courses, there are even very few online videos.

"What is this?"

Elsa asked curiously.

"It's an opportunity."

Catherine looked at her hand. It was black, but it was used as a disguise when going to the Pentagon. She seemed to have hidden it from Sheffield.

She continued: "Now that our Internet has developed, bandwidth is no problem at all. Besides, basically such courses do not require too high resolution. Through such online courses, we can reflect our

Isn’t it great that the school district is superior?”

On the other hand, the development of digital television has also brought the possibility of success to current courses.

In Catherine's time, there was no such course. At that time, traditional online courses would charge tuition, have credits, and only allow a few people to register in order to ensure teacher-student exchanges. Massive open online courses were different from

It's the complete opposite - it's free, and as simple and convenient as Youdou, but it seems that Chinese people in the 21st century have less trust in online courses.

Anyone with access to the Internet can register for these courses.

For the Chinese, this may not be a big deal, because for them, this matter is simply not a problem - there are a lot of videos on the Internet. Professor lectures and class records can all be searched.

But for Westerners, unless it is a specific lecture for propaganda, there are very few others.

In the final analysis, there is one possibility - copyright.

Because of copyright protection, many courses cannot be posted here.

The school district's approach, in a sense, is to break the monopoly.

"Of course, it's also for publicity."

Catherine smiled.

"But is such a course really useful? Does it have a diploma?"

"Of course not, but we can have information about these students, and that's enough."

Catherine said this.

"Have...their information?"

"Yes, such courses are not for those who need diplomas, but for those who really need our skills and need real learning. They are the ones we want to fight for."

Elsa nodded thoughtfully at this time.

Likewise, this kind of course also means that it is impossible for teachers to communicate with students individually.

The presentation and interaction methods of the massive open online courses designed by the school district are designed for large-scale groups of people.

Students registered for the same course can promote and learn from each other by joining local study groups or discussing on online forums. As for the grade of the course, it may also be generated by students' mutual evaluation.

"This new teaching form integrates education, entertainment and social networking! Hmm..." Catherine thought for a while, then continued: "It can be said that this is a 'digital revolution' in this era."

The open course materials of MOOC, such as courseware and books, are also released in digital form.

The main component of MOOC is still class lecture videos.

However, this course does not have a 45-minute lesson, but is in the form of a short film.

This is also a small amount of experience that is worth learning from.

In 2006, Khan Academy began to provide free, short instructional videos. Because of this successful precedent,

MOOC limits the length of the video to 8 to 12 minutes. More importantly, the video may be paused several times in the middle to test students' mastery of knowledge - such as popping up a small test, or asking students to write a program code,

The system then automatically gives feedback. The teaching assistant of the course may view and manage the online forum. In addition, some courses will also have assignments and exams.

"In other words, this is an audition organization similar to American Idol?"

American Idol, of course, is Catherine’s American Idol.

This is where Michael Jackson became famous.

"There is no doubt that MOOCs face many challenges: First, can one course cover so many students? Secondly, the grading mechanism, especially in non-technical humanities, art and other subjects, is not perfect. Another big problem

The problem is serious cheating.”

Catherine talked freely.

"But that's our starting point based on what these people are learning."

"But if you change the way, it will be different." Catherine said: "Our perspective is that we have to choose another kind of person."

Catherine laughed: "We choose... people who can enter the school district or have an impact on our school district."

"As for other people, that's not very important. Their cheating will only affect themselves, which is nothing to us."

Nothing has a beginning, nothing has an end. There are certainly not many students who can persist in completing the entire course.

It's easy to register for a course, but completing a third of it is already a lot.

However, even this one-third is enough in Catherine's opinion.

If a total of 30,000 people study in it, 10,000 complete the course, and one-tenth of them are interested in the school district, this is a victory for Catherine.

"Of course, we should think of a louder slogan...um...mooc

Our glorious ideal is to deliver the best educational resources in the world to the most remote corners of the earth, so that people can have a better career, and even improve their intelligence and expand their connections. How about this?"

Catherine smiled.

“A good concept.”

Elsa shrugged.

"But...it's just a concept."

"With a high-sounding slogan, we can achieve a more convenient victory. Isn't this a matter of course?"

Catherine looked indifferent.

"This course is free, but being free is not an easy thing."

Catherine's course allows students to enjoy courses taught by top professors in the school district for free as long as they register.

This kind of behavior can be said to be a huge initiative.

In fact, this is an impact on this era.

Free does not mean worthless, its value will be realized elsewhere in the market.

Catherine first thought of open source software. Later it expanded to the entire network.

How much value has Tim Berners-Lee created? He is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the original World Wide Web.

He created the entire Internet.

However, he actually did not gain much benefit from it. All the benefits were

google, apple, twitter

face

ook

These companies took it away.

Think about the other extreme, companies like Goldman Sachs, they have successfully extracted huge amounts of value from the economy, but like

2008

As the 2006 economic crisis demonstrated, they do so while actually destroying the value of the economy as a whole.

Therefore, Catherine feels that value creation and value acquisition are not the same thing. Western economics tends to measure value acquisition.

In other words, capitalists are more interested in value.

But what Catherine noticed was something at a higher level.

Taking off her clothes, Catherine walked outside to the swimming pool.

"Well, the weather is really nice."

Catherine jumped down immediately.

Elsa followed closely behind.

"What's behind this plan? How are you preparing?"

"What else can we do? Of course we can use 'free' to attract people first, and then find the real talents."

A good example of the distinction between value creation and value capture is open source software.

As a former software engineer, Catherine realized that most people didn't even think about the web hosting industry or Internet service providers who depended on open source software to exist.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that providing website domain name hosting is just a simple business model wrapped outside the Internet open source domain name system. In essence, they are providing it to customers

dns,apache,mysql

ess

Just a domain name.

There is also a study that shows that among small and medium-sized enterprises, companies with online presence are more productive than those without online presence.

percentage points. When you look at the value of the network. When you look at

linux

mysql

In terms of value created, you don’t just look at Red Hat, nor do you just look at Oracle’s acquisitions

mysql

value. Not even just looking at something like

google

For a company like this, you're looking at these downstream effects in the economy and the ability of small and medium-sized enterprises to reach customers.

"Free Content".

It sounds nice.

However, most people who go online pay a monthly fee to an Internet service provider

60,70

or

US dollars. Users pay monthly

US dollars to watch TV, we say this is payment for content. But when a person pays 80 US dollars a month to access the Internet, we say, oh, he gets the content for free. Obviously there is something wrong with this!

In fact, the opposite is true. When people watch TV, TV companies must pay downstream content providers. But when people watch online videos and movies, or just hang out online, they have no

Content payment. Therefore, the real free riders are not users, but these large companies. So, conversely, are there any economies that create value but do not obtain value? An obvious example is Youtu

e: User-generated content, where people make videos for each other to watch. It’s a whole subform created by users for users, and one wouldn’t be able to do that without

youtu

A niche market that will never be reached

Other examples include pu

med, which is a free biomedical literature retrieval system. The U.S. federal government initiated a plan to develop biomedical databases, and various research funded by public money created a large number of

"Free content". Some publishers of scientific research journals claim that this is damaging their business, and even fabricate

"free"

are at war with their business model, saying that this will destroy various scientific research groups because they have no way to make money, and so on.

But,pu

What about med?

For a country, this is definitely an excellent and perfect plan.

For universities, Catherine's MOOC plan is likely to temporarily hurt them.

However, for the school district, this is a good opportunity to select talents.

Not all geniuses have high IQs, they may just be excellent in a certain aspect. These people are likely to be "specialists".

Catherine wants to select such "special students".

"We just happened to finish this in the past few days, and then... let's continue to play with those guys~"

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