Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2506 Human Heart
At the end of the meeting, Gu Qing made a conclusion that made many scientists and engineers feel uneasy.

"Change is a good thing for human development, but whether it is good or bad will not change its definition according to our current will."

Therefore, I am both optimistic and pessimistic about the future.

That concludes my remarks for today's meeting. Next, I would like to invite the heads of each branch, subsidiary, and division to speak in turn.

The ancient sage Lao Tzu of the Great Xia Dynasty once said: "Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs."

He believed that the universe treats all things in the world like a lifeless straw dog, showing no favoritism but letting all things live and die on their own.

At this moment, Gu Qing's concerns and his words conveyed a similar meaning.

Zhang Tianhao, Yu Hongbin, and others had long been aware of their boss Gu's "calm" thinking, but this meeting was a collective meeting of all the management and elite engineers of Kyushu Technology.

Among the attendees, a considerable number held Gu Qing in high esteem and trust.

Some people even take Gu Qing's every word and action as truth, and record these "truths" in their notebooks, listen to these truths, and put them into practice.

Now, these people feel a peculiar sense of alienation.

Subsequently, Zhang Tianhao, Li You, Ying Shu, Li Jian, and other heads of various departments and subsidiaries delivered brief speeches.

As an "old guy" in the semiconductor department of Kyushu Technology, Li You has gone from a middle-aged man who was initially focused on his family to a middle-aged man with grandchildren around him after years of hard work.

However, despite his advanced age, his mind and expectations for the project remained sharp. In his brief speech, he proposed upgrading all semiconductor processes, including carbon-based, silicon-based, photonic semiconductors, and quantum chips, and enabling these semiconductor products to adapt to harsher environments, even maintaining stable operation for a certain period of time in the vacuum of space without any protective casing.

Zhang Tianhao, a young engineer whom Gu Qing had deliberately cultivated, also revealed for the first time some of the technological achievements of the Titan Star Department, as well as his expectations for space and alien planets.

Furthermore, because he himself was connected to the live conference system via virtual projection, many people noticed from his posture and some small details that this core executive was likely in outer space.

Although Zhang Tianhao himself has left Earth and is working on the Moon, it is not a strictly confidential matter, but indeed only those involved in the project know about it.

So now that they know this core management member isn't on Earth, and considering what their boss, Mr. Gu, said not long ago, many people have other ideas. "If the company is going to split into planetary branches in the future, should I stay on Earth to take care of my family and career, or go out and try my luck? I've heard that living in outer space for too long can easily lead to many illnesses, but the company's medical technology seems to be able to solve these problems. And even if I have an accident while working on an outer space project, my family won't necessarily fall into poverty, right? The company will definitely, as usual, provide my children with better educational resources..."

"President Gu's consideration for the overall ecology of Blue Star has always been to advocate environmental protection, greening, and sustainable development. However, after all, a company is just a company and cannot use force to guarantee the safety of all market environments. Just like some overseas markets not long ago, in the end, it was the elites of Kyushu Security who led all the engineers and their families to leave that land and return to their homeland... When the company had the ability to routinely land on the moon, many mainstream media and experts in the world were debating the control of the moon, and even wanted to divide the lunar territory into areas ruled by each country. In the end, the debate continued. It seems that... President Gu does not intend to place all his hopes on the moon. The 'Zhurong' Mars spacecraft launched by the company some time ago may be a replica of the lunar starship. Is President Gu sure that he wants to develop Mars?"

"The Spirit Realm Ecosystem has become a virtual world even more terrifying than the internet. Officials from all over the world are demanding that they have access to all Spirit Realm account information of their legal residents. This includes not only real-name registration data but also all account activity and game activity data. If global players don't unite to resist this behavior, the Spirit Realm Ecosystem will likely end up fragmented into a state even more disjointed than the internet itself..."

Those who are able to enter the management of Kyushu Technology or pass the Kyushu Certified Engineer assessment are not the kind of people who are purely "rigid".

They each have their own considerations and their own stances.

When the company's direction aligns with their own interests, they are naturally the most hardworking and capable elites.

However, when the company's future development focus deviates from or even contradicts their interests, these people will naturally have different thoughts.

As time went by, the three-hour meeting felt as short as the minutes that had passed.

When the meeting ended and the management and core engineers of Kyushu Technology left the online conference room, Gu Qing also nodded to several management and core engineers in the on-site conference room in Kunlun City, answered some of their questions, and then left the conference room.

It was like a giant rock crashing into the water, not only creating ripples, but also encountering schools of fish and damaging some corals as it sank, before finally landing on the seabed, where it was curiously explored by many shrimp, crabs, and small fish.

Many ordinary employees at Kyushu Technology noticed that their supervisor seemed a bit off, appearing somewhat inattentive in his work.

In fact, Kyushu Technology's internal management AI, "Xiezhi," issued more than 2000 reminders to employees at different levels in just one day.

However, Gu Qing did not punish these people. As long as these employees did not do anything out of line or affect normal production and research and development, it was fine.

As for the rest, as he said, he wasn't worried that anyone would choose to leave or give up.

The giant ship that is Jiuzhou Xinghai Company has achieved unmanned intelligent manufacturing across the entire industrial chain. If the internal conflicts are irreconcilable, Gu Qing's bottom line is to completely sever ties between Jiuzhou Xinghai Company and the Titan Star Department and Jiuzhou Technology.

(End of this chapter)