As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 281 Untitled
Every technological advancement in human history solves some problems and then causes other problems.

Technology is never a panacea.

The emergence of the Internet has changed the way information is transmitted and has greatly changed the traditional business model of mankind.

This has led to a series of problems, including data leaks, infringement of personal privacy by giants, spread of false information, and so on.

In the past, the spread of false information at most affected people around the source of the information, and the speed of information circulation was very slow.

In the Internet age, any piece of false news can become the collective memory of thousands of people.

From Tencent's perspective, they are integrating their services together and presenting them in the form of a city.

But for the majority of users, they will subconsciously think that the hype of virtual real estate may bring new oppression to ordinary people in the future.

Online public opinion was discussed very quickly, and most of it was negative.

The internet trolls directly or indirectly controlled by Tencent began to clean up the mess.

The most common saying is:

"If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it. This is different from real estate in the real world. Not everyone needs it."

In fact, not everyone needs real estate in the real world. If it is not bundled with too many things, many people can rent a house for their entire lives.

Negative public opinion cannot prevent capital from voting with its feet.

After Tencent's latest product, Huanyu-Pengcheng, was released, the stock price soared, rising by more than 20% in just two weeks.

After the first batch of virtual real estate was released, it was sold out in less than two hours.

It is not only Chinese people who invest in virtual real estate, but also a large number of overseas cryptocurrency players.

Virtual currency players are born to pursue risks.

Previously, virtual land was very basic, and a price could be auctioned off simply by a string of data fields.

Not to mention that Tencent provides a complete virtual city solution, which has already been implemented.

At the end of 2017, Decentraland held its first virtual land auction at the terraform event.

At that time, the starting price for each piece of land was 20 million yuan.

Five years later, by 2021, the average transaction price of these virtual lands exceeded 6000 million yuan, an increase of more than times.

In November 2021, Republic Realm purchased a property in The Sandbox for $11 million.

Metaverse real estate is actually an increasingly popular trend overseas.

A lot of hot money is pouring into this field.

The fate of Tencent, which joined this track, completely ignited the virtual real estate.

As for the previous major virtual real estate developers, this may be bad news.

Previously, virtual real estate was mainly played by four companies: Decentraland, Sandbox, Somnium Space and Cryptovoxels.

Sandbox occupies more than 2022% of the market share, and the selling price of each piece of virtual land they sell for exceeded million yuan as early as .

After the release of Huanyu-Pengcheng, the selling price of virtual land in Sandbox plummeted, with a drop of more than 50%.

The virtual real estate on the other three platforms could not escape the fate of being cut in half.

Of course, what followed was that overseas Internet giants announced their intention to enter this market, among which FB, now called META, was the most enthusiastic.

On the same day, Zuckerberg announced that META would also create a virtual city, and they planned to choose between New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

“New York or Los Angeles? Or do we create a completely virtual city?

Virtual real estate is a great opportunity for us, and we need to launch the product as soon as possible.”

“I think New York is more suitable, as New York is a well-deserved symbol of American culture.

As the first work of META virtual real estate, we need the best city to represent it.”

"What platform? Quest or futureverse?"

“I’m on both platforms, but I’m focusing on futureverse.”

One day later they decided to create a virtual city - New York.

Those who are familiar with FB’s development history will know that they either copy or acquire good business models on the market.

The classic example of FB copying someone else's business model dates back to 2012, when there was an app called Snapchat that burned messages after reading them.

Snapchat had tens of millions of users at the time, and FB spent twelve days copying the company's product and made an almost identical product.

Even at that time, FB did not shy away from plagiarizing other people’s products. The person in charge of plagiarizing products directly said on FB:

How this product was developed in 12 days by a team of product and engineers, with Zuckerberg himself writing the code and voicing the voice.

Does it feel like déjà vu to Tencent?

The average usage time of Tik Tok in America has exceeded that of all META apps.

META also wants to copy Tik Tok's model, but the problem is that it can't do it.

They launched the Reels short video app, but there is no sign that it can surpass Tik Tok.

Previously, big companies copied the ideas and products of startups, but now it is the turn of big companies to copy each other.

After the news that META was planning to build a virtual city came out, its stock price soared.

Even for META, the biggest benefit of engaging in virtual real estate is that they do not have to pay so much "tax" to the New York City government.

They can keep the profits for themselves. Of course, new problems will arise for latecomers, that is, it is not so easy to discuss the copyright of the building.

When Tencent went to discuss the matter, things went smoothly.

But now that virtual real estate has made companies realize its value, owners of architectural copyrights will no longer easily grant authorization.

"You should be able to see the magic forum, right? Including the specific content of the forum?"

It has been a whole month since Li Miaomiao obtained the magic brain. Although Zheng Li customized the magic brain for Li Miaomiao to a certain extent, the time required to adapt to the magic brain remained unchanged.

"Today I will mainly teach you how to use magic, some very basic spells."

Li Miaomiao is the only one in the entire Blue Star who can enjoy this treatment, and Merlin personally teaches magic to her.

Li Miaomiao replied: “I can see it.

But the content is too professional and I can't understand what other mages are saying at all.

Precision electroweak data support the weak coupling Higgs sector as the mechanism leading to electroweak symmetry breaking.

How to construct a natural framework in which low-energy supersymmetry is a weakly coupled fundamental scalar?
I know what each word means, but when put together, I have no idea what it means?"

Zheng Li smiled and said, "According to my understanding, all the mages here are either Nobel Prize winners or Fields Medal winners."

Because of the standards set by Merlin in the Magic Forum, the discussions in this forum are comparable to the top-notch Zhihu.

When it comes to some theoretical discussions, everyone is willing to speak, of course, there will be certain reservations in such speeches.

Li Miaomiao's eyes were dull: "I feel like a poor student like me is a bit out of place here.

Is this a world I can stay in?
What about the Chinese magicians? China seems to have only one Nobel Prize winner. "

“Academician, most of the magic brains in China are academicians, at least all the ones I have seen are academicians.

For example, the academicians in the field of biological sciences often come to meet me offline. "

Li Miaomiao sighed and said, "After all, I am marrying above my station."

Zheng Li: “You can learn it now.

After using the magic brain, your thinking activity, logical thinking ability and a series of other abilities have been greatly improved.

Now choose a direction and start from the entry level. Academicians cannot guarantee it, but Qingqian should have no problem. "

Li Miaomiao waved her hands and said, "Forget it, forget it. I don't like science and I'm not interested in it.

Otherwise, I would not have chosen liberal arts when I was divided into science and arts majors.

If I had chosen science at that time, I would have applied to the School of Biology and would have been able to graduate with a doctorate degree. "

Zheng Li: "You need to decide these by yourself. Now I am going to start teaching you some basic magic.

Including magic of various elemental attributes, refined control of kinetic energy, etc."

"The exact time it takes may depend on your ability to understand. It may take at least a week."

This was already an overestimation of Li Miaomiao. After a week, Li Miaomiao had only mastered the most basic hand spell.

And it can only move in one direction.

For example, if there is a cup of water on the table, she can only move the cup in a straight line.

Never mind the complicated operation of moving the cup to a person's mouth and then automatically pouring water into it.

It is even impossible to manipulate a water cup to move in a curve on a flat surface.

Zheng Li taught her personally at the beginning, but after two days of teaching, he couldn't stand it anymore.

Forget it, let’s use artificial intelligence, Zheng Li thought.

Zheng Li was afraid that he couldn't bear it, so he used a sobering spell on Li Miaomiao.

"Okay, that's a good performance. If we keep up this progress, you will be able to learn most of the basic spells in about five years."

Li Miaomiao's face drooped instantly: "Five years? It seems that I really don't have the talent to become a magician."

In fact, Li Miaomiao was not that slow in learning magic, but she wanted to spend more time with Zheng Li, so she was not very motivated to learn magic.

In her opinion, it was a rare opportunity to be alone with Zheng Li and do something together.

This was something Zheng Li did not realize.

"It's okay. Talent is not determined by how quickly you master magic, but by how powerful your spells are after you learn them, and whether you can innovate on existing magic."

Magic and mathematics are similar in nature. It is not the case that you are talented just because you learn quickly and get high scores on exams.

In the field of mathematical research, the most important thing has never been the ability to solve problems.

The public's perception of mathematicians may be how quickly they master knowledge and whether they can get high scores in exams.

But in fact, many masters in the field of mathematics are not good at this, but they have amazing endurance.

Be able to find a direction that is interesting and valuable to you, and stick to it in obscurity.

“Thank you for comforting me. Actually, it’s okay to have no talent.

I learned early on that people have flaws and need to be able to forgive themselves for their mediocrity.”

“I have a good attitude. We will keep the progress of one hour a day. I will adjust the study plan appropriately.

All you need is some magic to protect yourself."

(End of this chapter)