As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 385

The beginning of a new era
Chapter 2020: The Confused in
The New York Times, published in the last week of 2020, used twenty phrases to define the entire year:

Black Lives Matter
Brain Link All
Blursday
magic coin
Circuit breaker
contact tracing
Doomscrolling
essential workers
Flatten the curve
Frontline workers
Endorphins
Most of these words revolve around two things.

Merlin’s arrival and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maybe I shouldn't call him Merlin now.

Because Merlin is most likely not his real name, who cares? No matter what he is called, he has brought earth-shaking changes to the entire Blue Planet in the past fifteen years.

2020 is undoubtedly a confusing year. Brain-computer connection technology and super-long-lasting lithium batteries are undoubtedly telling people that new breakthroughs have been achieved in science and technology.

The future is bright.

Even if these technologies were developed by a Chinese company.

But at that time, people all over the Western world were full of confidence, believing that it would be extremely easy for us to catch up in these technologies.

However, at the micro level, what is happening around us is endless growth numbers and news of medical collapse can be heard everywhere.

At this time, I also learned some information related to magic.

Even though more than ten years have passed since the magic coin system was proposed, I still don’t understand how to calculate the cosmic coordinate system.

Even the cosmic coordinate system of the planet beneath my feet.

The accumulation of various events caused people at that time to fall into great confusion.

According to statistics from the American Bureau of Statistics in 2030, among college graduates in 2020, the proportion of those who chose to take a gap year was the highest.

In addition to this data, the ANP consumer confidence index fell for twelve consecutive months that year. Even in the month when the brain-computer interface mobile phone was launched on the market, the consumer confidence index continued to fall.

The consumer confidence index hit its all-time low in March 2013 at the end of the year.

The American stock market fell 33% from its peak, even though the Federal Reserve had not yet raised interest rates.

But at the same time, pessimism contained optimism. In just five months, American's stock market hit an all-time high.

The five-month recovery produced an annual return of 164%.

The lack of confidence on the consumer side and the bottoming out and rebound on the investment side, both things tell me that people are confused in 2020.

What happened in 2020 reminded me of an incredible article Drew Dickson wrote on Amazon, which contains an interesting thought experiment.

Imagine that it is 2007 and a group of research analysts are discussing what Amazon’s revenue will be in 2020. One group of analysts (let’s call them the “value investing” group) believes that Amazon will have $2020 billion in revenue in 270.

But another group (let's call them the "value speculators" group) believes that Amazon's revenue will reach $370 billion by this time.

The two groups disagreed on almost everything. They had different assumptions about expected GDP growth rates, Amazon’s profit margins, and how profitable Amazon would be in 2020. Yet, despite their differences, both groups were proven wrong.

Because Amazon’s revenue in 2020 was not $270 billion or $370 billion, but $3860 billion!
The year 2020 is also the eve of great changes in the future. Everyone is confused, unable to guess and unable to speculate what the future will be like.

From an investment perspective, people choose to vote for big companies and giants, allowing them to lead them out of a period of confusion, believing that these once successful companies will continue to be successful in the future.

From the perspective of consumption, people do not trust that their future selves will live better than their current selves, and choose to live frugally to store food for themselves for the winter.

But unlike what everyone expected, COVID-19 quickly disappeared without a trace due to the emergence of specific drugs, while the influence of the mage on Blue Star has continued to this day.

It has even profoundly changed all the lifestyles of modern people.

Including this article I am writing now, if it were fifteen years ago, no less than a million people would have seen it, but now there are less than ten thousand people.

Chapter 2: Scientific and innovative biology

Since the beginning of the information age, when we talk about giants, we must be referring to American companies. From the earliest Bell Telephone Company, to the later blue giant IBM, to the two giants Microsoft and Apple in the personal PC era, to the Big 4 in the mobile Internet era - Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.

These companies have enabled America to reap profits all over the world, and have also made people all over the world believe in one thing: only America can lead the future development of Blue Star, and only America has the ability to promote the advancement of Blue Star technology.

When did this phenomenon change?

Kechuang Bio is definitely an enterprise that cannot be avoided.

At the same time, it is also an enterprise that cannot be avoided on the eve of a new era.

As a handle for the Master on Blue Star, the Master is the specific implementation enterprise for his will on Blue Star.

Kechuang Biotechnology has enjoyed too many benefits brought by the technological dimensionality reduction attack.

So much so that today, there may be people on Blue Planet who don’t know Merlin, Magic Coin, or the Science City in Lion City, but there will definitely be no one who doesn’t know Ke Chuang Biotechnology.

Everyone is using the products of Sinovation Biotech and the services provided by Sinovation Biotech.

Kechuang Bio is a general term for all companies in this era, including IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.

With the existence of Ke Chuang Bio, the previous giants disappeared on the sea level like the afterglow of the setting sun.

No one will think of American technology companies anymore. No one believes that American technology companies can create a virtual world, biological computers, or biological communications.

Even American capitalists don't believe we can do it.

When Ke Chuang Biotechnology made the brain-computer connection mobile phone, Wall Street was scrambling to invest in Silicon Valley's brain-computer connection startups, with the starting investment basically being $20 million.

Even if your company was just established in a garage yesterday and there are only three people, I will still invest 20 million US dollars in you.

All investors are enthusiastic about investing.

After Ke Chuang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. came up with brain-computer interface connected to VR, the situation began to change. Wall Street will only believe in companies that have achieved results.

For start-ups, even if their team members are all PhDs or even professors who graduated from top universities such as MIT, Stanford, and Princeton, capital will not invest too much money in them.

During this period, Musk's Neuralink can still enjoy a valuation of 300 billion US dollars, while other brain-computer connection startups cannot even enjoy a valuation of million.

When virtual reality devices are released in the future, as long as it is a field that Kechuang Biology is involved in, or in other words, as long as it is a field that magicians are involved in, all capital will give up on this field.

Morgan has invested about 20 to 30 billion US dollars in Neuralink, and in the end they will sell all of Neuralink's shares even if they lose money.

And never again enter the field of brain-computer connections.

The same is true for other investment institutions. The entire brain-computer connection field, VR field and even the entire Internet industry are in a slump.

In Chinese terms, when a whale is born, everything else falls. Kechuang Bio is like a whale, plundering the entire ecosystem of nutrients.

Not only American companies are affected, but also Chinese companies.

Chinese Internet companies and American Internet companies are highly similar in terms of how they started, capital operations before and after listing, and the retreat paths they chose under the influence of the virtual world.

I guess this has something to do with the fact that they were all incubated by Wall Street capital.

China's Internet giants are called BAT. Like American Internet giants, BAT retains a small number of people to maintain the normal operation of the main business, and most of their energy is turned to the financial industry.

The Internet business has not been profitable for a long time, but one can still tell from the profit sources in their annual reports that they are an Internet giant, except for the profit share from Bluestar II.

It took less than 20 years for CStone Biopharma to grow from a company with paid-in capital of less than 10 million US dollars to become the world's only giant.

We have achieved the goal that all Internet companies want to achieve but have not yet achieved:

That is to allow all users to live in the ecosystem they provide.

Google wants to do it, from Chrome browser, YouTube to Google Search, Google Maps, Google Play Store to Android system.

Microsoft wants to do the same, from operating systems to desktop entertainment Xbox to the big acquisition of Blizzard.

Not to mention Apple, the entire Apple family is an all-round integrated product construction from software to hardware.

However, no matter how hard these companies try, it is impossible to make users only use their products, but Ke Chuang Bio has done it.

With the help of the virtual world, a carrier that only exists as a concept but not as a physical object on the blue planet, people can meet most of their needs in the real world in the virtual world.

In Blue Star No. 2, a blue star world close to the real one was built, and the services provided were more than ten times cheaper than those in the real world.

I can't remember how long it's been since I last drove a car in the real world.

In Blue Star II, you can appear on any street or any section of Blue Star, choose any vehicle that has ever existed in history, and step on the accelerator to the angle you want.

Even if the car is destroyed and people are killed, it is just a matter of reloading.

I know that people who read this article will think there is something wrong with me. Isn’t this kind of life pretty good?
I feel that as the editor-in-chief of the New York Times, I can enjoy a quality of life in the real world that is almost the same as in the virtual world. And for most people who are struggling to make ends meet, the virtual world has greatly enriched their spiritual and material worlds.

It’s not that I hate the virtual world, I just don’t like the feeling of everyone living in a virtual world.

Although I typed this article word by word in front of a computer in the virtual world.

Back to Ke Chuang Bio, Ke Chuang Bio has allowed people to witness the power of science and technology, and the power of science and technology is clearly visible.

Technology is a company's core competitiveness and most powerful moat.

To the extent that in the real world, investment demand has shrunk drastically, all industrial capital will ask a question before investing: Where are your technological barriers?

Technology has become a concern for all contemporary investors.

Chapter 3: A Big Reshuffle in the Food Industry

After the virtual world came out, all industries were pessimistic.

I think the demand will shrink. After people are satisfied in the virtual world, will they still need satisfaction in the real world?
Only the food industry is optimistic.

It is believed that the virtual world still cannot provide sufficient energy replenishment for people in the real world.

Everyone feels that the spring of the takeout industry and the catering industry is coming.

In the past twenty years, with the popularity of takeout, fewer and fewer people choose to cook by themselves.

Even in New York, where the delivery fee for a takeout meal fluctuates around $10, the takeout industry is still growing rapidly at a rate of 50% per year.

However, what was unexpected was that after Bluestar 2 was put into use, it was combined with a large-scale biological communication network.

The first industry to be reshuffled was the food industry.

McDonald's, KFC, and Starbucks, which have been in existence for hundreds of years, suffered unprecedented huge losses that year.

At the same time, two years later, Starbucks became the first giant in the food industry to fall.

The virtual world brings about the complexity of taste. As long as you can reproduce the taste, you can replicate the taste in the virtual world.

For example, in the real world, if we develop a dish, it is difficult for me to know whether everyone will like its taste.

But in the virtual world, I can let countless people taste it and get their feedback.

If there are enough positive reviews, then I can officially include this dish in my real-world menu and make it available to users.

People have long known that region, race, and growing environment will differentiate a person's taste.

The virtual world allows restaurant groups to customize flavors, including fried chicken, a product that seems to have a recipe that can be used for hundreds of years, but it will still be defeated by more customized flavors.

As for why Starbucks was the first giant to fall, it was because your competitors were able to provide users with the flavors they wanted.

Users can fully taste dozens of coffee flavors online without consuming any caffeine.

After users select the flavor they want, they can pick up the food offline.

Luckin Coffee, which used this strategy, forced Starbucks to go bankrupt in just one year.

As for why Starbucks doesn't adopt the same strategy, I guess you should ask Howard.

However, I guess the price was not agreed upon, and Luckin chose to sell a large portion of its shares to Ali in exchange for the right to sense and input data from Bluestar II.

However, Starbucks has been unable to reach an agreement on price with these powerful Internet giants.

But the good news is that Apple has acquired the bankrupt Starbucks, and we will be able to see the rebirth of Starbucks in the near future.

In addition to the catering industry using feeling input and then providing this feeling to users, allowing users to determine their most desired taste, and then providing it to the other party in the real world after confirmation.

Some industries try to use the virtual world to achieve their goals, such as
marijuana.

META has partnered with the Marijuana Group to provide various flavors of marijuana to users of the American virtual world.

(End of this chapter)