Technological Hegemony

Silicon Valley, Google's parent company, Alphabet.

A butterfly flapping its wings in East Asia triggered a global tsunami.

Tens of thousands of Google engineers have not closed their eyes for two days. They are trying to crack the mobile assistant to find out what kind of kernel this software is equipped with.

It's a pity that they, like all cracking teams around the world, are helpless in the face of mobile phone assistants packaged with extraterrestrial civilization technology.

"Our engineering team and various elite laboratories have come to the final conclusion that this software uses a package that none of us has seen before, and it is absolutely impossible to crack it." Technical Director Gignac was a little desperate , report the results to the two bosses.

snap~

Sergey Brin twirled the ballpoint pen in his hand, which is his habit when thinking, while another Google founder, Larry Page, shrugged in disappointment.

"Look, the Android system was created by us, but it was made up by the Chinese people." Larry Page said, "Now, even we who created Android have lost control of it. It is very doubtful that the Android system will become the weapon of those Huaxia mobile phone companies in the future."

Sergey Brin still did not speak. In fact, Google has been preparing to take back control of Android. First, it uses a free strategy to expand the market, and then relies on monopoly advantages to make huge profits. This has always been a common method used by Internet companies.

As early as 2016, Google launched the Pixel series of mobile phones, trying to learn from Apple and fully control the software and hardware.

It's a pity that the partner company they chose at that time was HTC in Taiwan Province, and HTC was dying under the siege of Samsung and the Big Four, and it was completely incapable of helping Google realize their ambitions.

Later, Google acquired HTC's important design department, and at the same time cooperated with manufacturers such as LG, secretly preparing for a reshuffle in the mobile phone industry.

suddenly~

Sergey Brin finished thinking, and the ballpoint pen in his hand stopped suddenly.

The other two looked at him at the same time. Anyone who knows Google knows that this child born in the former Soviet Union and an immigrant family has the unique coldness and determination of a fighting nation, and he has never concealed his dislike of the former Soviet system.

"No one can take away what belongs to us." Sergey Brin's tone of voice was like a cold current from Siberia, "In the mobile phone industry, we are the biggest players, and other players have only two choices, If you don't obey, you're out."

Both Larry Page and Gignac's eyes lit up, "You mean, continue to advance the Glacier Project?"

The Glacier Project is a project that Google has been secretly promoting in recent years. It has only one purpose, to regain control of Android, end the era when any manufacturer can customize the system on the basis of Android, and establish Google's mobile phone hegemony.

Sergey Brin shrugged, "We are a very large company. In the past, we only used one percent of our power to advance the Glacier Project. In the future, we can adjust the strength to 10 percent, and we can achieve 10 percent of the power. Within two months, end this war."

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Li Moran drove his Mercedes-Benz C200 car, and Luo Jia sat in the co-pilot seat in a daze. The two rushed to Wuxi City, where the robot factory was located, according to the address provided by Taobao.com.

Wuxi is not far from Shanghai, with Gusu in the middle. When leaving the urban area, there was a traffic jam.

After leaving the urban area and entering the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, the road became much smoother. I traveled at an average speed of about 100 kilometers. When I finally arrived in Wuxi, it was already close to six o'clock in the afternoon. blacken.

"Let's find a place to live first." Luo Jia said to Li Moran.

They took a suite at a Holiday Inn, then drove to find a restaurant with a pretty good Dianping score,

I asked for local fish and crabs.

After drinking two bowls of fish soup, Luo Jia felt that he was almost sober. He only focused on drinking at noon, but actually didn't eat anything. He was hungry at the moment, so he asked the boss to add some steamed buns.

This restaurant is quite high-grade, and the per capita consumption is about 200 yuan. There are three middle-aged men sitting at the next table, dressed well, and they seem to be business owners. The private economy in the Yangtze River Delta is developed, and the small boss who runs the factory is really Not a lot.

Luo Jia listened to the three of them sighing, complaining about the bad market, how much they lost this month, and so on. They used to drink Wuliangye for meals, but now they can only drink Yanghe Daqu. It used to be that workers were hard to find, but now workers can’t find jobs. , Enterprises are desperately laying off workers.

Hey~

Li Moran sighed, "It's all caused by the trade war, and I don't know how long it will take for the trade war with the United States to end. If this continues, it will have too much impact on the real economy."

Luo Jia silently put a crab on the plate, lifted the lid skillfully, and ate the crab roe inside.

"Do you care about the African people?" Roja asked.

Suddenly asking this question?

Li Moran was a little confused, he thought for a while, "I don't know much, and I don't care much, after all, the distance is so far, and there is no intersection."

Luo Jia nodded, "In the eyes of Europe and the United States, we are the same as Africa in our eyes. Different people, different cultures, speak different languages."

"Times have changed. According to last year's customs statistics, 58.3% of my country's export products are mechanical and electrical products. In the past, we made some socks and shirts and no one cared. But now, all the exports are mobile phones, computers, etc. Automobiles, construction machinery, ships."

"Those things are sold at the bottom of the box in Europe and the United States, and they don't care about you, and you still rob them of their jobs. As the old saying goes, taking someone's money is like killing their parents."

"The trade war is just the appearance of friction. In fact, it is an all-out war from culture to industry. The last time there was a two-power struggle on the earth, it was the United States and the Soviet Union. The result was that the Soviet Union completely collapsed in 1991. Humans cannot Too naive, a war related to hegemony cannot end easily."

Li Moran was shocked. If he didn't know Luo Jia well, he would never have believed that the young man eating crabs in front of him was not yet nineteen years old.

After dinner, Luo Jia asked Li Moran to drive and visit the factory overnight.

The factory is not in the industrial park, but is sandwiched between two small towns alone, surrounded by large rice fields, it looks quite desolate, and there are no people in the factory, only a few street lights are on, and there is an old man in charge of the gate at the door .

Luo Jia took out two boxes of soft China from the backpack and threw them to the doorman. The uncle saw that they were good cigarettes, put them in his pocket quietly, and chatted with Luo Jia enthusiastically.

It turned out that this was a factory owned by a rich second generation in the town next door. Their family started as a shipyard. After graduating from university, the rich second generation wanted to start a business, so they took a sum of money from their family and set up this robot assembly factory. Prepare to take advantage of the boom in the robot industry and make a fortune.

Who would have imagined that high-tech industries such as robotics are far from shipbuilding, and they have been losing money since they opened.

The rich second generation has no patience, gradually they no longer care about the affairs of the factory, and went to invest in the live broadcast industry, set up a performing arts company, raised a lot of Internet celebrities, and posed in the small room every day.

The janitor was bored by himself, and he took Luo Jia's good cigarettes, so he knew everything. He wanted to turn the rich second generation's family upside down, and even told Luo Jia where his father's mistress lived. .

The situation is almost understood, Luo Jia said goodbye to the uncle, and asked Li Moran to drive back to the hotel.

He leaned over the window and observed all the way, and found that the location of this factory is really good, not on the main road, and in a remote location, even if robots are produced here, no one should find out.