I am a great scientist

Chapter 396 The Changing World

Nano-medicine cabins, industrial robots, low-temperature hibernation cabins,... With the application of these advanced technological products, the number of human deaths has plummeted. However, the earth's resources are limited, and it is impossible for humans to withstand such a restrained population expansion.

Zhou Xing is a globally recognized genius scientist, and has mastered one of the world's largest and most advanced companies. At the same time, the reason for the infinite expansion of human population has nothing to do with him, and it has become his inevitable choice to invest in the aerospace field.

Yang Minghua, Lin Wei and others thought for a while and understood Zhou Xing's thoughts very well. In any case, there is only one direction for the future development of Shining Star Group, and that is to step into space.

"Mr. Zhou, when are you going to start the space project? Wait until the life extension gene technology is successfully developed?" Chen Fan looked at Zhou Xing and asked impatiently.

Hearing this, everyone looked at Zhou Xing nervously, looking forward to it.

Life-prolonging genetic technology has always been the most important thing for Yang Minghua and the others. They are not young anymore. However, the magnificent interstellar era of human civilization is about to begin. They still want to continue to live and witness the progress of human society under the leadership of Star Group. Enter the interstellar age.

Facing the expectant eyes of everyone, Zhou Xing smiled, shook his head and said, "No, the life-prolonging genetic technology does not have 3 years, so I am afraid it will not produce results. The energy project is the first problem to be solved at the moment."

Hearing this, everyone was shocked and their eyes lit up. Zhou Xing answered in this way and admitted that the life-prolonging gene technology has a huge breakthrough possibility.

"So we will be able to use this technology soon! Mr. Zhou, are you sure?" Xie Liwu looked at Zhou Xing excitedly and asked happily.

"I'm sure, I'm sure. Mr. Zhou never speaks with a purpose." Chen Fan nodded excitedly, watching everyone answer for Zhou Xing.

According to Zhou Xiaozhi's calculations, the gene sequence that causes human aging can be deciphered in about a year, and then it will take another year or two to develop a genetic drug that modifies the aging gene series.

Zhou Xing nodded with a smile: "Based on a conservative estimate, three years is almost the same."

Zhou Xing has said this, so the life-prolonging genetic technology must not have escaped.

"Great! Great!" Xie Liwu was ecstatic, and excitedly clicked,
Everyone was overjoyed, and they couldn't help but smile brightly on their faces, and nodded their heads.

Yang Minghua looked at Zhou Xing and asked happily: "Mr. Zhou, what important arrangements do you have for energy projects, please tell me."

Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, looked at Yang Minghua and replied: "The next step is to start the nuclear fusion energy station construction project and experiment with nuclear fusion power generation technology."

Hearing this, Yang Minghua, Lin Wei, and Xie Liwu looked at each other and smiled wryly.

Sure enough, it is nuclear fusion power generation!
It is another cutting-edge technology with enormous influence, and its influence is comparable to that of life extension gene technology.

For all human beings, energy demand is the most urgent problem to be solved.

With the expansion of population and the rapid development of science and technology, human beings' demand for energy is increasing, and the world's energy crisis is becoming increasingly prominent.

However, oil and coal, the energy sources used by human beings, are formed by animals, microorganisms and their sediments in ancient lakes and oceans buried underground by crustal changes, and formed after long-term high-temperature and high-pressure geological actions. The formation of a crude oil reservoir It takes thousands of years, more than tens of thousands of years, and the formation of coal takes longer, more than one million years.

Petroleum and coal are non-renewable energy sources, and the amount will decrease with the application of human beings.

Nowadays, human beings have used high-tech detection technology to explore more than 90% of the world's easy-to-exploit energy areas except the Antarctic and the deep sea. The earth's resources cannot have the possibility of a large increase like the last century.

However, in order to develop the economy and national power, human society consumes more energy year by year, exploits excessively and uses it wastefully, which causes the energy crisis in today's society to become more and more serious.

Energy is no small matter. Once the bottom line of energy is touched, turmoil will occur in human society. Civil strife and war break out are very common things at first sight.

Oil and coal are facing depletion, nuclear power generation is not safe, hydropower is over-developed, other clean energy sources, solar energy, wind energy, etc., technology development is difficult and has little potential. The only technology that can replace oil and coal and has development value is left Next - nuclear fusion power generation.

Nuclear fusion (nuclear fusion), also known as nuclear fusion, fusion reaction or thermonuclear reaction, under certain conditions (such as ultra-high temperature and high pressure), the fusion reaction of the nucleus of a certain material (mainly deuterium) (from a nuclear change A technology that produces a large amount of energy release for another kind of atomic nucleus and continuously obtains energy.

Nuclear fusion technology is the most mainstream and cutting-edge technology in the world today. Several powerful countries in science and technology around the world, including Huaguo, have carried out in-depth research on this technology and achieved many results.

Nuclear fusion technology has two directions of magnetic confinement and inertial confinement.
However, the difficulty is quite large. It is not an easy task to heat atoms to a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees and let them fuse in a regular manner. At present, the steady-state high-constraint mode operation duration of this technology has just exceeded the order of minutes. , there is still a huge gap to achieve controllable and continuous operation.

Yang Minghua looked at Zhou Xing with complicated eyes. He must have made sufficient preparations for proposing this technology at this time.

"Mr. Zhou, have you developed controllable nuclear fusion technology?" Yang Minghua asked inquiringly.

Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, and confirmed: "Yes, I have further improved the 'full superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion device'. If the experiment is correct, controllable nuclear fusion should be possible."

The fully superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion device is a ring-shaped magnetic confinement controlled nuclear fusion experimental device invented by the former Soviet scientist tokamak in the 20s. The superconducting tokamak enables continuous and steady-state operation of the magnetic confinement configuration. It is recognized as the most effective way to explore and solve future fusion reactor engineering and physical problems. If a major breakthrough can be made in this field, the possibility of controllable fusion power generation is very high.

After hearing Zhou Xing's answer, everyone had expected smiles on their faces, not surprised.

According to past experience, Zhou Xing must first have mastered the relevant technical information before he progressed to allow them to carry out experiments and complete the project in one step.

Photonic machine computer, biological 3D printer, these two projects urgently need to be promoted, plus a fusion energy station project, large-scale projects are launched one after another. As the managers of Shining Star Group, Yang Minghua, Xie Liwu, Lin Wei, etc. People are very distressed.

Because of Zhou Xing's research and development capabilities, Shining Star Group has achieved outstanding results in every field. However, it is not so easy to be a global technology monopoly giant.

New materials, virtual networks, robots, medical fields, smart chips, photonic computers, etc., Shining Star Group is an industry monopoly giant. If it is developed again, life extension gene technology, nuclear fusion energy technology, even behind them The top leaders of the country, I am afraid they should also be afraid!

Yang Minghua looked at Zhou Xing and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhou, if this is the case, our group will become very conspicuous!"

Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, understanding what Yang Minghua meant.

Zhou Xing looked serious, looked at the crowd and said frankly: "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Shining Star Group will create a more brilliant career in the future. This hurdle must be overcome calmly and vigorously. The nuclear fusion project will start the experiment. After that, you will focus on the three fields of photonic computers, new materials, and 3D printers to prepare for the next projects.”

Yang Minghua, Lin Wei, Xie Liwu and the others looked at each other with fiery eyes. Zhou Xing invited them over for 'dinner' today. The main purpose should be to explain to them what he thinks next!

If the photonic computer and 3D printer projects are progressing smoothly, Shining Star Group will deeply root its two tentacles in Huaguo. When the two projects of life-prolonging gene technology and nuclear fusion power generation are implemented, Shining Star Group will be in Huaguo, and even the whole world. The world will be laid in an indestructible 'position'.

Ye Huilan came out with a pot of soup from the kitchen, put it in the center of the dining table, and greeted everyone: "The keel soup is ready, don't bother talking about work, eat, eat quickly, the food is cold."

Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, and greeted Yang Minghua and the others: "Mmm, yes! Don't talk about business, let's move our chopsticks!"

Lin Wei nodded with a smile, looked at Ye Huilan and praised: "It tastes delicious, Sister Lan, your cooking skills are at a five-star level. I wouldn't be able to cook so many dishes otherwise."

"That's right! Sister Lan, if I can eat your dishes all the time, I'm sure I can be as good as Mr. Zhou." Chen Fan took a sip of the soup, and flattered Ye Huilan with a satisfied face.

Ye Huilan's smiling face was like a blooming white orchid, overflowing with contented joy: "Haha, Xiao Chen can really talk, so eat more if it's delicious! You're welcome!"

"Yes, yes!" Chen Fan nodded like garlic, and let go of eating.

Zhou Xing, Yang Minghua, and Xie Liwu smiled at each other, joined the battle and enjoyed this sumptuous dinner together.

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The 3D printer with magical efficiency and the advanced photonic computer in science fiction, with these two new products, Shining Star Group became popular all over the world again.

Suppliers, agents, and wholesalers from all over the world rushed to the headquarters of Shining Star Group, waving banknotes, looking for cooperation and occupation.

Shining Star Group is like a hungry 'glutton', which never refuses anyone who comes, devouring a large amount of wealth from all over the world.

Electronic cities in major cities around the world have become deserted, either changing their doors or announcing their closure. Overnight, the world has changed its color.

As early as when 3D printing technology was invented, a large number of insightful people made predictions about its application prospects. Being trapped in the field of materials, 3D printing technology has not been greatly promoted and applied. However, one day, 3D printing technology Complete material breakthroughs, this technology will bring earth-shaking changes to human society.

Now the great changes have begun. Shining Star Group has not only completed a breakthrough in printing materials, but also improved the printing mode of 3D printing technology on this basis.

The world economy is like a patient with diarrhea who was given a powerful laxative by the Shining Star Group. It cannot withstand the 'surprise' brought by the bio-3D printer, and the stock market with 'weak limbs' tortured by several economic crises Once again, the stocks of companies related to industrials have plummeted.

Sanleng Group, one of the world's top [-] industrial groups, is mainly involved in the automotive industry, power, materials, machinery, microelectronics, military industry,... It is a world-renowned company with a total market value of hundreds of billions of dollars.

However, due to many businesses, Sanleng Group and Shining Star Group overlapped. With the advent of 3D printers and photonic computers, countless investors fled at their own expense, and the total market value fell by one-fifth in an instant.

The conference room of the Sanleng Group headquarters was like a storm, and the atmosphere was oppressive.

Dozens of high-level members of the group dared not take a breath, and did not dare to meet the gaze of Iwamoto Matsu, the chairman of the group, from the chairman.

"Why did the company's stock fall like this? Who can tell me how to save it?" Iwamoto Matsu scanned the audience with terrifying eyes.

Everyone's scalps went numb, and they were stumped by the question asked by Iwamoto Matsu.

"Don't talk at all, Ishitaro, you go first." Iwamoto Matsu's eyes fell on a bald middle-aged man.

"Hi, President," Shi Taro shook his body, nodded and explained: "This product launch conference of Shining Star Group, photonic computers have seriously impacted our group's achievements in the field of microelectronics, and 3D printers have impacted our group's industrial field. In the long run, our group will suffer a loss of US$30 billion.”

Hearing this, Iwamoto Matsu's face turned dark, and he looked at Ishitaro with a gloomy face, and asked in a dark way: "And then? What should we do to save this loss?"

Facing Kami Iwamoto's gaze, Ishitaro shuddered and said in a trembling voice: "President, the products released by Shining Star Group are leading the times, just like smartphones replacing feature phones, this is the inevitable result of technological progress , So, what we can do now is to change the existing business and catch up with the development direction of Shining Star Group. The huge drop in the stock is because investors have lost confidence in the company's development. Maybe some of the losses can be recovered."

After finishing speaking, Ishitaro looked at the chairman - Iwamoto Matsu in fear, waiting for his anger.

Iwamoto Matsu closed his eyes, frowning and thinking.

Due to technological progress, new products are born, and it is common for one company to be replaced by another company. The most classic case is that Apple replaced the mobile phone giant Nokia Group, causing an 'empire' to collapse.

Iwamoto Matsu opened his eyes, looked at the crowd, and decided in a somewhat difficult voice: "The shareholders' meeting will be held the day after tomorrow, and it will be decided that the group will abandon the microelectronics field. At the same time, it will increase investment in flying cars and strive to release new products this year."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It would be best for the chairman to recognize the reality clearly, for fear that he will keep procrastinating.

Reality does not depend on human will, and backwardness must bear a high price. This is the unchanging truth of the development of human society.

(End of this chapter)