As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 386

When the virtual world combines with the real world, traditional restaurant chains fail quickly. The difference is even greater than that between Shein and ZARA.

No, it should be the gap between traditional handicraft workshops and modern assembly line operations.

Ke Chuang Bio opened up sensory collection permissions and related equipment to these Internet giants. In the past decade, these companies have used this permission to transform many real-life business models into new value in the virtual world. The connection between reality and virtuality has been completely opened up.

This authority was hailed as a license for the virtual world, and later economists called it a franchise in the virtual age.

Two years ago, when an Internet company that obtained this license went bankrupt and liquidated, the rights were auctioned for a sky-high price of nearly 50 billion euros.

People even think that Goldman Sachs, which won the bid for this license, made a fortune.

The restaurant industry is just one of the industries that has been most affected.

Internet companies that have obtained licenses have either participated in or invested in chain restaurant companies that use the virtual world to optimize taste.

When traditional restaurants are developing dishes, they can only be tested by the R&D team and a small number of customers. Ultimately, they still need to be brought to market, and market feedback will determine whether the new dishes have prospects for large-scale promotion.

Even global restaurant chains like KFC or McDonald's only have less than three digits of tasters assigned to each specific dish.

By leveraging the virtual world, these new catering establishments can solicit opinions from millions or even tens of millions of users.

At the same time, this is also a marketing activity for their new products.

Combined with artificial intelligence technology, the taste can be made different in each region.

New-style catering groups are booming. Even if they have central kitchens and strict hygiene standards, all additives will never exceed the requirements of national standards. When you taste the food in the restaurant or take out at home, you will be full of praise for the taste.

But subconsciously, I felt that it was unreasonable that even my sense of taste was controlled by someone.

But the real world tells me that everyone welcomes this model and believes that it is the direction of the future.

Even now that new restaurant groups have iterated to the latest model, they will give you the illusion that they are serving you alone.

You should first taste all the samples provided by the group today in Blue Star No. 2. You don’t even need to actually eat the food in the virtual world.

If you smell a dozen or so small bottles, the corresponding taste and smell sensations will echo in your brain, and then you can choose the few scents you like best.

Then you decide what you want to eat in the morning, afternoon and evening, and they will deliver the food to your door.

The Wall Street Journal believes in their column that this is a great model, believing that everyone no longer has to worry about food. Restaurant groups will provide you with countless options. You only need to try and choose, and you will be able to taste your favorite flavor of the day in the real world.

Even though artificial meat is becoming more and more common in burgers nowadays, everyone seems to have become accustomed to it, and eating real meat has become the object of contempt among environmentalists.

We are already in the 30s, so how can we keep the bad habits of the 20s?

For a moment I didn't know if I was crazy or they were crazy.

This includes new catering groups that can provide customized services based on your needs. For example, if you want to eat healthier, the flavors they provide you will be those with fewer additives.

With hundreds of flavors, you can always choose the most suitable one, even if it doesn't taste industrial.

After hearing all of the above, I think this is really a genius model that solves a big problem that everyone faces every day: what should I eat today.

But I don’t like the feeling of my taste buds being kidnapped, and I don’t like a life without mistakes or surprises.

No matter what film or TV show the cyberpunk world is in, no matter how crazy it is, I think people’s diet is within the normal range.

Poor people eat nutritional supplements with poor taste, while rich people eat a variety of specially grown pollution-free crops and specially raised pure natural meat.

I never thought that the virtual world, combined with central kitchens and artificial intelligence, could be so powerful.

No matter whether you are rich or poor, if you don’t have money, you will eat more additives and artificial meat. If you have money, you will eat fewer additives and more high-quality ingredients.

But the essence is the same, your taste has been completely hijacked by the new catering groups.

Sometimes on weekends I go to Broadway, which is not as prosperous as before, and pass by the empty restaurants on the street. Only the posters hanging on the wall, with their colors blurred by dust, tell of its former glory.

Countless distinctive restaurants are vulnerable to new catering groups.

Chapter 5 Blue Star II

Bluestar-2 is the greatest invention of the 21st century.

Previously, whether it was Tencent’s Cyber ​​​​Pengcheng, or later Microsoft’s My VR World, or META’s VR New York, they all just projected part of the real world into the virtual world.

Even though my VR world is ambitious, the goal is to build cities one by one and eventually achieve the goal of replicating all real-world cities in VR.

However, due to the limitations of the computing power of silicon-based chips and the need to achieve a certain balance between cost and revenue, Microsoft had to abandon this idea.

Choose to build a super large city, and then allow people to build their own castles and pay for Internet access.

Bluestar 2 is the first one, and of course only Kechuang Biotechnology has the ability to map the entire Blue Star in the real world into the virtual world.

And in the virtual world, you can achieve almost all the flavors that exist in the real world.

It was also on Blue Star No. 2 that I tried Chinese hotpot for the first time. Although it is very famous, I have never tried it because of my fear of this dark cuisine.

It wasn't until a media friend I met during a meeting in China reconnected with me in the virtual world that I tried hotpot for the first time at his invitation.

I can't tell whether this magical smell is the same as in the real world, but from his expression and demeanor, I think it should be.

Because the float I tasted in the virtual town of New Bern, North Carolina tasted exactly the same as the one in the real world.

You have to know that except for people in North Carolina, few people in other states have ever tasted this flavor.

What I will describe in this chapter is the monetary system adopted by Blue Star II.

As we all know, governments around the world have been trying to promote their own digital currencies.

Whether it is America, China, or other countries, sorry, it’s not that other countries are not important, but in the mind of an American, when mentioning other countries, the first reaction is China.

I have seen this name too many times on TV shows, by various politicians, and on the Internet.

On the eve of the launch of Bluestar-2, economists were very interested in what kind of currency Bluestar-2 would adopt.

Because no matter whether it is the currency in the magic world or the fantasy world, it is a monetary system determined by the background of the game, and it cannot be directly exchanged with the currency in the real world through official channels.

There is no official currency trading channel.

But Bluestar II is different. Since the construction of Bluestar II was authorized to these Internet giants, Ms. Li Miaomiao, the actual controller of Kechuang Biotechnology, has expressed her expectations for Bluestar II. Because in many cases, if you want to accomplish something, you need to learn to share benefits. If you don't understand the sharing of benefits, there will be a limit to your development.

It has to be said that Ms. Li Miaomiao's ambition has made Blue Star II's current unshakable position.

First, we chose to recruit the most prestigious economists on Blue Planet, hoping that they would come up with a plan on what kind of monetary system should be adopted after Blue Planet II is released to the public.

It is to create a brand new currency out of thin air, and then find an anchor point to tie the brand new currency to the anchor point from issuance to pricing.

These economists proposed many plans. Since the meeting and its results have never been made public, we do not know which economist proposed the current monetary system.

Even what they claim is quite different.

I tend to believe that it was proposed by scholars of the Chicago School of Economics, but I don’t know more details.

In short, after Li Miaomiao decided on this plan, she started lengthy negotiations with various governments.

Bluestar II directly adopts the real-world monetary system.

In other words, real-world currency can be used directly in Bluestar II.

All economic cycle activities in Blue Star No. 2 are connected to the real world.

I spend money in Blue Star II to pay the other party for services. After the other party receives the money, he can pay a certain handling fee according to the withdrawal channel and return to reality.

For all countries, their land area has been doubled out of thin air, and the currency they print has a new destination.

The money of global inflation has a new flow.

This is equivalent to completely binding the monetary system of the virtual world with the real world, and there is no boundary between the real world and the virtual world.

Li Miaomiao gave such a big piece of cake to various governments out of thin air, which led to the subsequent construction of virtual reality equipment and biological communication networks being smooth in various countries.

What I admire even more is that all the properties in Blue Star II are only leased and not sold.

After years of decryption, we know that this decision was also made by Ms. Li Miaomiao.

I have to say this is a very wise approach.

It is difficult to restrain yourself.

For an organization or a company, there are so many benefits right in front of you, and you can swallow them slowly.

The most valuable thing in Blue Star II is undoubtedly the massive real estate, including residential, office buildings, tourist properties and so on.

Because you feel that there is no difference between the virtual world and the real world.

Including weather and climate, everything remains consistent with the real world.

This means that, in theory, the value of real estate in the virtual world is the same as that in the real world, or even higher.

Real-world properties can become damaged due to aging and develop a variety of problems due to time spent living in them.

The virtual world will not do that. It will remain the same as it is now, ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.

For Ke Chuang Bio, they can auction the real estate piece by piece, such as auctioning the property next to New York's Central Park today, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles tomorrow, and Bill Gates' mansion on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle the day after tomorrow.

Anyway, the mountain mansion in the virtual world does not belong to Bill Gates.

There are countless such top-notch residences around the world that can be auctioned at sky-high prices by scientific and technological creatures in the virtual world.

At the same time, there are countless ordinary houses that can also be sold to ordinary people at a low but not that low price.

At that time, some institutions estimated that, taking into account liquid assets, if Sinovation Biotechnology sold a portion of its real estate every year, they could guarantee annual revenue of over one trillion US dollars for hundreds of years.

However, Ke Chuang Bio did not choose to do so. Li Miaomiao chose to rent all the real estate in the virtual world to users at a certain ratio according to their value in the real world.

Although rich people still live in mansions in the virtual world, poor people can also live in better quality homes in the virtual world.

And if Ke Chuang Bio chooses to sell its virtual real estate, the proletarians will continue to be proletarians in the virtual world.

It was these two measures that led to the complete prosperity of Bluestar II.

From every choice made by Ms. Li Miaomiao, I can only feel two words: respect.

Kechuang Bio has also fully demonstrated that it is not a completely profit-oriented enterprise.

Now more than three billion people live on Blue Star II every day.

The entertainment ecosystem of Blue Star 2 is even richer than that in the real world.

More than a dozen Internet companies from China and America have provided advice on the operation of Blue Star II, which has become a paradise for entertainment and the best reflection of the real world in the virtual world.

I still hold some not-so-rosy views.

Life in the real world is too difficult compared to life on Blue Star No. 2. In the virtual world, the same quality of service is available at a price less than one percent of that in the real world.

Even some special services should be greatly discounted in the virtual world because they are provided in the virtual world and both the service providers and service buyers will realize at this time that the real world and the virtual world are separate.

Even though it feels no different from the real world.

The virtual world leads to more and more divorces and extramarital affairs.

People are having fun in virtual worlds where they can cheat without any risk of getting caught.

At the same time, you can comfort yourself that the virtual world is different from the real world.

More and more people are putting forward the slogan that Bluestar 2 is life and Blue Star is reality.

Life is comfortable and pleasant; reality is bitter and difficult.

This has led to a continuous increase in labor costs in both the service and manufacturing industries.

Young people would rather choose to do odd jobs in the real world for a while, save some money, and then start living completely in the virtual world.

There are more and more young people like this.

(End of this chapter)