Cyber Heroes

Before today, Tao Enhai would never have thought that the chairman of a large company would actually squeeze into the subway.

And he was dressed casually.

Tao Enhai was a little weird about this: "Don't you drive a private car?"

"Unless I'm going home with my lover, I won't drive when the number of people is less than three." Xiang Shan said with a serious expression: "To protect the earth is to protect our home of mankind."

Tao Enhai has rarely seen someone repeat this slogan so righteously. but……

He felt that the other party was not joking.

"By the way, my car was just taken away by my lover."

"Oh, I see."

Xiang Dong was wearing ordinary casual clothes and sneakers today. Except for the smart glasses on the bridge of the nose, which are very cutting-edge electronic products, the others are all affordable items.

On the contrary, it was Tao Enhai himself, dressed in a suit and ties.

"Ah, by the way, since we are not conducting external business here, and no outsiders will come to visit, we can dress more casually in the future." Xiang Shan said to Tao Enhai while swiping his fingers in front of him.

The first generation of smart glasses could only be controlled by voice and motion command capture. In noisy areas such as subways, voice commands may not necessarily take effect. Just now, Xiang Shan suddenly said, "They didn't wait for me", and he also saw the news of the smart glasses' reaction.

The two quickly got on the subway. Although this is a suburb, it also looks like a high-tech industrial park, with quite a few people getting off work. Although the subway is not crowded, there are no seats available.

Xiang Shan and Tao Enhai stood in the middle of the two subway sections. While Xiang Shan was reading something, he explained to Tao Enhai the current main business scope of "transhumanism".

Superman Enterprises currently focuses on four areas. The four fields are "genetic engineering", "cognitive science", "information science" and "mechanical engineering". There are many overlapping projects under these four areas.

For example, "the correlation between certain cognitive abilities and genetics" is a content that spans the fields of "genetic engineering" and "cognitive science".

Another example is "using computers to reproduce the cognitive process of human thinking", which belongs to the overlapping area of ​​"cognitive science" and "information science".

And these projects influence each other, forming an organic whole within Superman Enterprise. Tao Enhai had a vague feeling that these fields seemed to be serving a big plan. But this "big plan" that he vaguely guessed revealed an unrealistic sense of science fiction.

Xiang Shan even revealed that Superman Enterprises invested in setting up a game incubation community in Northern Europe last year and reached cooperation with many well-known independent game producers to study "the mechanism of game behavior" and "the interaction process between game behavior and virtual reality." ” and “The Shaping of Virtual Communities by Gaming Behavior.”

"Ah, by the way, if we look at individual departments, the incubation community is the department with the highest profit margin and the fastest capital turnover of our Superman company." Xiang Shan said with regret.

After all, the company's R\u0026D organization is burning money. The money it burned was enough to bankrupt many small countries.

No matter how much you earn, it’s not enough for scientific research.

Tao Enhai couldn't help but interrupt: "So...how do we make money? National financial allocation? Probably not..."

Xiang Shan nodded: "Part of it. But I mainly make money from 'products'. In fact, the country cannot withstand our extravagant burning..."

Tao Enhai was a little confused: "But I haven't seen your...our company's products?"

"No, actually you have seen it before." Xiang Shan whispered: "You used to be a doctor, right? Many of the new drugs in the past two years have been marked with 'Yawill Preparation Method', right?"

"It seems...ah..." Tao Enhai did remember. The Yawill preparation method is an efficient and safe biopharmaceutical preparation method that allows yeast to metabolize most types of organic compounds through gene editing at a low price.

Over the years, Yawill drugs have become mainstream in the market.

Then, it is mentioned in textbooks...or introduced by medical representatives. The inventor of the Yawill preparation method is none other than Yawgmoth Voigt.

"This is too...but..." Tao Enhai feels that doing this is a bit...a bit...immoral?

——Or am I too naive?

Similar stories have happened countless times in history. For example, Edison owned the best patent for the light bulb interface and the best patent for the filament. Therefore, no matter which company's light bulbs, it is impossible to compete with him.

"Of course, Doctor Tao, I know what you are thinking, but please listen to me." Xiang Shan said: "We can rely on this method to make money, but there are conditions. First of all, this patent is licensed to state-owned enterprises in all countries for free. Enterprises or related departments. For private enterprises, we charge licensing fees at a fraction of a percent of the profits. At the same time, we also have a condition - if we adopt this patent, we must control the profit margin In a lower range.”

Tao Enhai was silent for a moment: "How...how did Mr. Voigt survive until now?"

In this case, all businessmen in the entire pharmaceutical industry will put Yawgmoth Voigt on the assassination list...

"That's why it should be provided to governments of various countries free of charge." Xiang Shan shrugged: "Not only this patent, but every one of our patents will be authorized for use by various countries. In addition to avoiding assassination, we can also get Various policy supports.”

"All the patents we apply for are disclosed in the same way. Those capitalists either use our patents, or they don't use them, and then they are swallowed up by their peers. Of course, if they use them secretly, that's not bad. We Although our legal department has a small number of people, we still have in-depth cooperation with several well-known law firms - they like patent lawsuits the most. Although those lawyers are with us, believe me, they are very inhumane. "

Xiangshan seemed to have remembered something and laughed.

"But those pharmaceutical companies...and other companies will try their best to attack us, right?"

Unknowingly, Tao Enhai developed a sense of identification with this crazy company.

"Haha..." Xiang Shan smiled: "Don't worry about this, brother, most of the best scientists are on our side."

The "best scientists" are actually only a handful of people. This is certain. If "academic influence" is converted into wealth by a numerical value, the Gini coefficient of the academic community will be larger than that of countries with the largest gap between rich and poor.

Since Yawgmoth Voigt is a member of the Superman Enterprise, Xiangshan is indeed confident in saying this.

"It is precisely because we are all so good that everyone's predictions about the future of the industry are basically very accurate. We have always been the only ones who use this foresight to snipe others." Xiang Shan thought for a moment: "Although it is not As for not making any mistakes at all, the probability of us guessing wrong is still quite low."

"How low?"

"Currently, my probability is 7%, David's is 3%, and Xinyu is 16%? Anatole is 100% ignoring it...but he is doing pure theory." Xiangshan thought for a moment. : "Well, although Yog is still zero, that is simply because the direction of technological development is defined by him and will not be discussed."

Tao Enhai was in awe.

It can be described as a percentage... How many patents does this company hold...

not to mention……

Tao Enhai also came to his senses.

The core of Superman Enterprises is the R\u0026D department. They basically don't produce any physical goods. Using patents to attack transhumanism is basically meaningless.

With the introduction of Xiangshan. Tao Enhai gradually sketched a blueprint for this company in his mind.

The two chatted all the way. During this period, Xiangshan was also accompanied by the words "make soup, no salt and pepper" - he was probably ordering food. At around six o'clock, the two of them arrived at the front door.

"Suddenly it occurred to me that this place is only one or two stops away from the West Third Ring Road." Xiang Shan sighed: "If I had known you were coming, why not just let you wait here? It would also avoid wasting time on the way back and forth."

Their destination was the Quanjude Headquarters at Daqianmen.

Tao Enhai felt that this place was a bit flashy. He said: "Does the company usually have dinner here..."

"Yes, judging from your accent, you are also a local?" Xiangshan said: "I'll be honest. I actually didn't really want to choose the location here. But today's location is indeed not my choice. The proportion of foreigners in the company Too high, they, ah, how should I say, like this... understand?"

Tao Enhai nodded. Xiangshan has learned about the box through smart glasses. He didn't ask the waiter and walked over directly with Tao Enhai.

Tao Enhai heard a burst of laughter from a distance. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a white-haired young woman singing various versions of the "Internationale" in countless languages. There were several people around. In a corner of the restaurant, there were several people divided into three groups and arguing fiercely.

At this moment, Tao Enhai felt even more out of place.

In the whole box, I was the only one wearing formal clothes.

All are in casual wear.

Xiangshan coughed twice, but except for a few people who had noticed it long ago, everyone else was still immersed in their own world. Xiang Shan had to raise his voice and said: "Comrades, let me introduce you. This is Dr. Tao Enhaitao whom I mentioned before. Starting tomorrow, he will join our research department. Welcome everyone."

Then, sparse applause came from the box.

It's as if the chairman has no special dignity here.

Xiang Shan didn't take it seriously and directly arranged for Tao Enhai to sit next to someone.

Tao Enhai sat down and wanted to get acquainted with the person next to him.

But after seeing the person's appearance clearly, he exclaimed: "Mr. Voigt?"