Chapter 149: The Scariest Conference in History
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
A few days ago, Xing Hai Technologies finally changed its company name, taking away “Ao You” from “Ao You Xing Hai Technologies.”
The real Xing Hai Technologies was a small software company manufacturing mobile phone brus.h.i.+ng tools in Shen Zhen City. In their public placard, there were phrases like, “Our technical instructors are G.o.d-tier Instructors,””It is better to teach people to fish than to give them a fish,””Our goal is to train everyone to be brus.h.i.+ng experts,””The skilled slaughters with a leaf; the unskilled slaughtered while wielding a Dragon Saber”, and many others. It reflected that this company indeed possessed certain levels of technical abilities.
The company’s total a.s.sets did not exceed five million. When Chen Jin sent some men over to acquire this small company and take their company name, the initial bargain was 10 million. The boss of the company thought about it and was about to comply. However, for unknown reasons, the boss (by the surname of Tao) became hesitant. He thought that the price was too low, and he would only sell his company if they increased the price to 50 million. At that period in time, the Wa-wah robot was raging like a fever, and Xing Hai Technologies was causing a sensation nationwide. He thought that something was fishy that somebody wanted to acquire his company at that time.
The personnel that Chen Jin sent to realize the acquisition had no choice, and resorted to outflanking tactics. He convinced Mr. Tao’s business accomplices and his family, and at the end, amongst the urging voices, Mr. Tao sold his company at 30 million dollars.
After his company was sold, he realized that n.o.body took over the company’s a.s.sets. Only two days ago did he find out that “Ao You Xing Hai Technologies” officially changed its name into “Xing Hai Technologies” via the company’s Weibo.
“Ah!!” He pounded his chest in annoyance. “Too cheap, I sold the company way too cheap! I lost at least one billion dollars!” But things done could not be undone. No matter how much he regretted it, he would not be able to change a thing.
…
Inside a huge rest area for the staff to relax, many of Xing Hai Technologies’ staff either sat or leaned at the soft combination sofas. At that time, they were surrounding a young man, freely discussing some issues.
Zhen Kir s.h.i.+n said, “Mr. Chen, after the country announced their plans to reform the education system, those science students are so thrilled, saying that spring has come for them and that learning science will not be difficult anymore. But the art students, on the other hand, are all complaining. They are asking why the Little Star learning machine can’t serve them and that they need a learning machine to help them memorize books too. They also accused Xing Hai Technologies as being biased towards science students, and they are super angry about it!” She hugged a pillow and blinked her round eyes at him.
“Biased towards science students?” Chen Jin said while smiling, “What’s the reason for their accusations? They of all people should have known that on some sensitive topics, they are free to probe into it, but if the Little Star learning machine were to even touch on it, it would spell disaster. They shouldn’t complain. In another few years to come, learning arts will become more difficult than learning science. The world will come to need more creative minds, like artists, cartoonists, composers, poets, philosophers… all of these will become high-paying professions in the future. The salary of science talents will be immensely behind them. The income of those with careers in liberal arts will generally be higher than that of science. When technical personnel can be ma.s.s produced, the golden age for students studying liberal arts will be hastily approaching.”
“Really?” A young man beside him dared not to believe it. “Do liberal arts really have a brighter future in the time to come?”
“Yes, the reversal will happen in at maximum 30 years’ time.” Chen Jin did not blindly come out with all of this knowledge. Planet Haierfa itself had experienced this development in its course of history. Back on Earth, after the advent of the “Smart Learning Program,” the pro-arts era would come quickly.
“Mr. Chen, recently, I logged into a few foreign review websites to look at their feedback towards the Little Star learning machine, and I almost died out of anger. More than half of the foreign netizens have in mind that we stole their tech, another half thought that it was a hoax. Only a small portion of them thought that the Little Star leaning machine was good and that their kids should have one…” This handsome young man by the name of Liu Si said with dismay, “Mr. Chen, do you think that those foreigners were hopelessly brainwashed by their media? When we take out something great they will accuse us of stealing.”
“You pay attention to the foreigner’s feedbacks?” Chen Jin gave him a weird glance, shook his head, and said, “There is no need for you to pay attention to their reaction. Normal people can only interact with normal people. There is no way for normal people to interact with idiots and lunatics. We will never affiliate ourselves with them, it will be like finding trouble.”
“Are you implying that… we are not selling the Little Star learning machine to the foreigners?” Liu Si asked with his eyes flas.h.i.+ng.
“For what purpose would we sell it to them?” Chen Jin shrugged his shoulders. “What benefits will we get by increasing the IQ of those lunatics? How will it benefit our country?” He shook his head. “Just let them continue to indulge in their own high, I can’t help them change their IQ, and I don’t want any of their benefits as well. Let them say what they want, as long as they’re happy themselves.”
“Haha!”
“What you said makes sense Mr. Chen. On things like IQ, we should just charge our own people with it, why bother about those foreigners?”
“Those foreigners don’t have a brain to begin with, what can be changed?”
“Huhuh, didn’t they like to block and restrict us? I’ll let them taste their own medicine.”
The crowd laughed. They all felt very thrilled.
…
The 7th of July was a day of grave importance.
In Shang Hai City’s Workers Stadium, an epoch-making product eligible to be recorded in history books was released. The Little Star Second Gen learning machine! Its performance was ten times higher than that of Little Star First Gen. In its Tree of Knowledge, aside from a small portion of subjects, all knowledge checkpoints for 12 years of elementary and high school were updated into the system. It could answer any questions raised by the user within the answer scope and solve any problem revolving around logical operation from elementary to high school level.
Besides, on the hardware used in the construction of the Little Star Second Gen learning machine, aside from some flash chips that needed to be imported, other hardware like the screen, camera, battery, motherboard, CPU, AI chip, and memory chip were all locally-made products. The localization rate was over 98% and the product was safe, reliable, and one that a person could use with complete a.s.surance and ease of mind.
The power of the Little Star Second Gen learning machine astonished people. Its high localization rate made the crowd excited. The conference could be said to have achieved a sensational success.
However, for the majority of netizens, their most intuitive feelings about the conference and their most profound impression towards it was generally anxiety and fear. They called the conference “The scariest conference in history.”
The reason was that of all 30 thousand invited audience members, there were officials from the Ministry of Education, a heck ton of experienced teachers, and parents who cared for their children’s learnings.
All the guests sat in the seats sternly. They all had solemn expressions and none of them were making any noise.
Most of the netizens in front of their screens were left in shock.
“Chilling!”
“I had jitters of being dominated. My psychological obscuration is rapidly growing.”
“Holy, this is so scary!”
“Please don’t broadcast horror movies!”
“I’m out. I have cold sweat all over my body, I’ll keep my eyes off this.”