As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 146 Meeting Demand and Creating Demand

“So far, Kechuang Bio has been very determined to follow the path of independent research and development, and its profit sources are mainly core endorphins and brain-computer connections.

Taking these two products as an example, we will not talk about how much money they made specifically, because this is clearly written in the financial report of Ke Chuang Biotechnology, but talk about why technological innovation can create wealth.

Technological innovation can create demand, like the Internet wave in recent years.

Is a computer a necessity? For people today, there is no doubt that computers are indispensable, whether for individuals or businesses. It is not only a productivity tool, but also a personal entertainment terminal.

The booming development of computer technology has created people's demand for computers, and everyone can enjoy it and get the experience they want.

The same is true for mobile Internet in the past decade. Advances in communication technology and semiconductors have enabled most of the entertainment functions of computers to be integrated into mobile phones.

Moreover, mobile terminals can realize more special functions than computers. Functions unique to mobile phones, such as taxi-hailing and mobile payment, have been created.

Technological progress brings new demands, and the same is true for scientific and technological innovation and biotechnology.

Before endorphins were mass-produced, morphine-like drugs dominated the analgesics. But now people use endorphins in large quantities, and the more advanced the surgery, the more endorphins are needed.

If endorphins are high-end substitutes for existing needs, then brain-computer connection is a need completely created by scientific and technological creatures.

Previously, brain-computer connection to control mobile phones only remained in media publicity and the public's imagination, and many users even doubted the necessity of brain-computer connection to mobile phones.

Today, almost all high-end mobile phones in China and America are equipped with brain-computer connection functions.

Users will automatically have a psychological suggestion about mobile phones that do not have brain-computer connection functions: this phone is not positioned as high-end.

This is also a created demand.

Therefore, I personally believe that companies that can create demand are top-level technology companies, and companies that meet demand are first-class companies. If you want to become a giant, you must be able to create demand.

The corporate vision of Ke Chuang Bio is not only to become a giant, which we have already achieved. Our longer-term corporate vision is to meet demand.

This is what Mr. Cheng said when we were training after campus recruitment. I personally think that we need to create more demand.

Finally, it seems that Kechuang Biotechnology will have campus recruitment this spring. If you are interested, please contact me and I will recommend you. "

Since Ke Chuang Bio is a new company, it has recruited a lot of people from campuses and from society in recent years.

Of course, the requirements are also very high, so it is difficult to recruit people.

If the referral is successful, the referrer will receive a generous bonus.

This is similar to the situation in big Internet companies like Ali and Tencent, where employees can get hundreds of thousands of yuan in referral bonuses by recommending others for more than a year. This bonus is even linked to your performance.

“Thanks for the invitation. The financial report of Sinovation Biotech shows one thing: it is very wealthy.

It is obvious that the company is not short of money, as there is revenue from brain-computer interface VR and lithium batteries waiting to be released this year.

In fact, there is also a large profit margin in brain-computer prosthetics. I went to Luckin's cyberpunk-themed coffee shop last time and saw that Ke Chuang Biotechnology's brain-computer prosthetic arm was really finely made.

I saw that the latte art made by disabled baristas is as delicate as that of normal people. Maybe it’s just to show off their skills. Luckin’s regular stores don’t offer latte art at all. In their cyberpunk-themed coffee shop, you have to pay an extra 10 yuan service fee for latte art.

If you want to make money from this, it will be an income that is no less than that of endorphins. However, the executives of Kechuang Bio claimed that they would not make money from this technology and would provide it to consumers at the lowest price, so this part has not been included in the expected future income.

I can only say that Mr. Zheng has a very broad vision.

The biggest point this year is still the revenue brought by the lithium battery sector. After all, the A-share lithium battery sector has already reacted so violently in advance. The last time the lithium battery sector rioted was in 21 years. "

Most of the reactions on Zhihu are very optimistic, and Kechuang Bio is also optimistic internally, because they are indeed monopoly products, which in a sense are also core demands.

"Mr. Zheng, we are collecting rare plants from all over the world through various means. These are the first batch of goods."

Zheng Li ignored the disturbances from the outside world. He collected various plants from all over the world through the channels of Ke Chuang Biological.

Since it is not required to be a living plant, even a leaf of a precious plant will do as long as the leaf still maintains cell activity.

So the collection progress is not slow.

Zheng Li watched the goods being delivered to his laboratory on the 17th floor by the staff. During the delivery process, he walked to the public laboratory area downstairs to take a look.

"Wan Qing, how is the brain-computer prosthetic experiment going?"

Li Wanqing is very glad that he chose to come to Kechuang Bio. The research team he manages has expanded from less than 100 people to more than 1,000 people now.

If we were to recruit a new R&D manager now, he would definitely not be the one.

This is often the case. Even if you have better qualifications in all aspects, if the position is taken, it is almost impossible for you to replace someone else.

A carrot and a pit.

You can't pull out the other carrots. This is also why the academic world is getting more and more competitive, because there are only a few positions, and there are more and more PhDs. The positions are occupied, and the number of new positions is far less fast than the number of PhDs.

This is true in China, and it is also true in Europe and the United States. PhDs from Ivy League schools can only go to schools ranked outside the top 200 in the US to do tenure track. So PhDs ranked in the top in the US have to go to schools ranked outside the top .

In recent years, degrees have depreciated faster than currency.

Li Wanqing feels lucky and cherishes the fact that he has found such a good position in the industry, so he works very hard, and it is no exaggeration to say that he does his best.

"The effect of hand prosthesis is already very mature. With the cooperation of eye signal capture, it can basically achieve a recognition accuracy of nearly 95%, and emergency measures can achieve 100% recognition accuracy."

The emergency measures here mean, for example, that you use a brain-computer prosthetic to lift an object, and then the brain-computer connection generates an erroneous recognition signal, mistakenly thinking that you are about to let go. If it is a heavy object, it may hit yourself or others.

The emergency measure is to prevent similar situations from happening. The leg muscles are tightened with a force that reaches a certain value, and the prosthesis will stop maintaining its current state and hold the object in the hand.

Corresponding sensors are installed on the legs.

“But the brain signal capture device is still a bit heavy, but we can already bring this model to market.”

"There are still some problems with brain-computer interface prostheses for the lower limbs, but we have found a solution, and there should be no unsolvable difficulties in their practical implementation," Li Wanqing said in detail.

Since the algorithms and research and development ideas for the upper limb brain-computer interface prosthesis were all specified by Zheng Li at the time, progress was rapid.

The legs were independently developed by researchers based on Zheng Li's ideas for developing the upper limbs, and the progress is relatively slow.

Lower limb brain-computer interface prostheses are less difficult to develop because the lower limbs have fewer functions and the spatial complexity is not as high as that of the upper limbs.

Zheng Li nodded: "Okay, after the experimental data report is confirmed to be correct, we can start the pre-market clinical trial."

Zheng Li plans to license the patent of brain-computer prosthesis to others.

If you do it yourself, you first need to build a series of supporting systems including production lines, sales systems, and after-sales systems.

There are too many employees, and Ke Chuang Bio's current management method cannot handle so many people.

When there are more people, the difficulty of management increases exponentially.

Especially from Zheng Li's point of view, he had no intention of making money through brain-computer prosthetics, let alone supporting so many people.

If it were the Mage Alliance, not to mention brain-computer prosthetics, basically all material needs would be met, and the residents' greatest contribution to the Alliance would be to provide genetic diversity.

The exception is mages, who have to bear more responsibilities and obligations.

Zheng Li plans to clearly stipulate how much money they can earn from this and what the profit margin must be when signing patent agreements with major biopharmaceutical companies.

Although this method is not very effective, because the paper profit can be reduced by manipulating the accounts.

But at least it can play a screening role. For those companies that sell at too high a price, we can just stop cooperating after the patent authorization expires.

Zheng Li nodded and said, "How is your experience with brain-computer connected VR?"

"I tried it and felt the effect was pretty good. I compared it with VR products on the market. The advantages of brain-computer connection are huge. It can put more computing power on image optimization."

It is true that it is much better than other VR products, but it is a lie to say that the effect is good.

The Mage Alliance has realized virtual reality technology, and a large number of people rely on virtual reality to pass their boring time. Compared with virtual reality, Blue Star's VR is really too backward.

The gap between the two is even greater than that between Apple and Xiaolingtong.

Li Wanqing laughed and said: "We put the brain-computer connection VR in the public entertainment area. People have to queue up to play it during the break time every day."

"So everyone is asking colleagues in the general office if they can get a few more from Suzhou."

"The only problem is that there are no games optimized specifically for brain-computer connection VR. The games now require buttons to run. I feel that the superiority of brain-computer connection can be demonstrated by watching videos without playing games, but the brain-computer connection does not exist when playing games."

The system jointly developed by Tencent and Dami has not yet been launched, but Ke Chuang Bio's brain-computer connection can first use the mainstream VR operating system on the market, and then make some adjustments before using it.

Instead of waiting for the self-developed VR system to come out before conducting adaptive research and development.

Zheng Li: "Wait for the adaptation. Tencent has already negotiated with Nintendo, and The Legend of Zelda will adapt the brain-computer connection VR version."

"Major console games including Monster Hunter and Assassin's Creed will be specially developed for brain-computer connection VR."

"Then everyone will have more options."

At times like this, Tencent's advantages are revealed.

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