It is very difficult to write economic reviews in China. First of all, you cannot write too straightforwardly.
Because there is obviously a big invisible hand behind China's economic policies. This big invisible hand doesn't want everyone to know what it is going to do and where the future trends will be.
And if you write too professionally, it will lead to highbrowness and no one will read it.
For example, a certain securities company conducts macroeconomic framework research, which conducts various global macroeconomic indexes and certain analysis content every week, but has very few followers.
To put it bluntly, there is no market for serious economic commentary. Many domestic financial media sources of information are just copied from here and there. The research report data of many domestic securities firms cite sources or even marketing accounts.
The above economic critics can only have a place in the self-media era by developing into the field of popular literature.
Discussions about life-extending drugs have spread to all levels of society.
Human beings have a desire to live that is unimaginable to young people.
The popular saying in recent years is that we don’t want to have offspring and we will solve it by ourselves after reaching a certain age. Similar remarks are one-sided remarks made without experiencing real life and death.
No matter how difficult the situation is for the elderly, there are only a few who have the courage to die peacefully.
Not to mention the young people who have caught up with China's rapid economic development for forty years and have a rich material life and a relatively rich spiritual life.
The so-called self-determination at a certain age is just a subjective argument for one's own arguments on social media.
Most of the discussion among economic-related media focuses on the revenue scale and profits of life-extending drugs. It's rare to combine this with the reorganization of global supply chains.
Everyone's perception that Blue Star Technology's development has re-entered a fast lane is not obvious to the level of brain consciousness. After all, only a few can see this.
Subconsciously, the investment confidence brought to Blue Star people exists.
The development of science and technology can truly bring about progress in productivity and liberate production relations. Potentially good expectations for technological progress give people optimistic expectations about the future, which further leads to people daring to consume, invest and start businesses.
If there are pessimistic expectations about the future, the economy will fall into stagflation and then depression. But the virtuous cycle created by the changes brought about by magic has delayed the stagflation that should have occurred in Blue Star.
The arrival of Zheng Li or Merlin, a mage who was at least lawful, made people accept the arrival of magic quickly.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Hollywood culture has swept the world in recent years. People are eager for superpowers and are tired of the same daily life. Even if magic is far away from them.
Just like Luo Shu who was trapped in the Apple, even though it was almost impossible for him to become a magician, he still felt that the magical Blue Star was much better than before the emergence of magic.
At least there is hope.
Those who are more concerned about life-extending drugs are academics.
The next issue of The Lancet to be published is hailed by academic circles as the most anticipated issue of The Lancet.
The issue that scientists are most concerned about is how clinical trials are designed.
Extending lifespan is a very difficult concept to prove.
Most of the methods of extending lifespan that humans have developed before are based on a certain indicator and think they extend lifespan.
Or simply improve your physical health.
Take telomeres, for example. Scientists have discovered that telomeres shorten during cell division. But does slowing down or even directly stopping the shortening of telomeres mean extending lifespan?
This is not the case, because the determinant of lifespan is not just telomeres. Even shortening telomeres does not necessarily mean that your lifespan will be shortened.
Researchers in the Internet era went back hundreds of years and established a database with a history of hundreds of years. They found that advances in medical methods, behavioral changes and environmental improvements can effectively extend life span.
This discovery dates back to a 1996 study funded by the American National Institute on Aging.
It has been almost thirty years now.
Progress in this area has been much slower than expected.
And the life extension in that year's study was, in a sense, just cashing in on life expectancy.
Therefore, countless biology-related researchers are looking forward to a new definition of the basic concepts behind life-extending drugs.
When the scientific community around the world was eagerly anticipating it, Li Wanqing contacted Zheng Li through a remote VR video conference.
When Zheng Li was in the Lion City before, he could see Zheng Li every day and directly consult Zheng Li on some scientific research issues.
Every time Zheng Li can give just the right answer or a good idea.
From Li Wanqing's perspective, the days when he and Zheng Li worked in the same place were the days when he made the fastest progress in scientific research.
After Zheng Li left, although he could also ask for advice through email, compared with offline communication, the efficiency and understanding of email were ultimately inferior.
As for remote video communication or VR communication through brain-computer connection, Zheng Li hardly had time to answer his questions alone.
Therefore, since Zheng Li left the Lion City and returned to China, Li Wanqing was quite uninterested.
He has always been the R&D director of Kechuang Biotech in Lion City. After Zheng Li returned to China, Li Miaomiao asked Li Wanqing if he wanted to serve as the president of Kechuang Future Lion City Branch.
It is equivalent to switching from the research line to management.
Only to be rejected by Li Wanqing.
Because the Lion City not only has the R&D center of Kechuang Biotechnology, but also has branches of Kechuang Future.
Kechuang Future's branch in the Lion City is mainly responsible for sales and promotion throughout Southeast Asia and even further into the Kangaroo Country.
Li Wanqing still prefers to stay in the laboratory. He doesn't want to and is not ready for the identity transformation.
"Director Zheng, I have an idea about the future research direction of brain-computer connection VR."
Currently, the Lion City R&D Center is still mainly engaged in research in the field of brain-computer connection.
Many of Zheng Li’s research ideas on brain-computer connection were finally implemented in the Lion City.
So much so that researchers from the Lion City are being watched by the entire industry.
Any company that still has ambitions in the field of brain-computer connection is willing to pay a premium of two to three times to poach researchers from the Suzhou R&D Center of Science and Technology Biotechnology.
Among them, in addition to neurolink, Samsung and Sony are also the most enthusiastic about poaching people.
The popularity of futureverse is actually squeezing out space from other entertainment devices.
A gaming magazine joked that Sony's PS series of desktop entertainment devices are facing dimensionality reduction attacks from Chinese companies.
Zheng Li nodded and said, "You say."
Zheng Li was still a little interested in Li Wanqing's ideas.
In his opinion, if it was not a particularly important matter, Li Wanqing would not apply alone to meet in VR.
In the brain-computer connection VR system, Goose Factory has specially developed a brand new social app called Troom.
It is a living room. Others can visit your living room, and you can also visit other people's living room.
Everyone can have a basic living room of 50 square meters for free.
As for whether you need to buy furniture, expand the living room area, or even build it into your real home.
The only thing you need to do is spend money.
Krypton Gold, Goose Factory can meet all your needs.
There is no limit to the area of Zheng Li's room, but it is also empty and empty.
In a space with no visible boundaries, the virtual images of Zheng Li and Li Wanqing are the only colors in this white space.
Li Wanqing explained in detail: “We all know that VR is the frontier of virtual reality.
The metaverse is just an artificially defined concept that people cannot realize virtual reality in a short time, and at the same time want to distinguish it from the VR concept many years ago.
But the Metaverse has indeed made technological progress compared with traditional VR.
There is no doubt that our brain-computer connected VR has met or even greatly exceeded the industry's requirements in the first year of the Metaverse.
But this is still not enough. Essentially, we still only solve two of the five senses, vision and hearing.
There are currently no solutions to the other three feelings based on Blue Star's technological level.
Currently, only one-way transmission of nerve signals is achieved.
I've been thinking about how neural signals are transferred from VR devices to human sensations.
I think of one direction to start with, and that is dizziness.
In simulation training, pilots can simulate a relatively high degree of reality by relying only on video and slight jitter.
We can start here.
The causes of vertigo are diverse, such as benign positional vertigo, vertigo caused by peripheral vestibular lesions, central vestibular lesions, etc.
It sounds like a lot, but in fact, compared with other sensations, vertigo still involves too few nerve signals.
And a very important point is that the feeling of vertigo can, through the cooperation of vision, cause the human brain to produce neural signals similar to vertigo.
So what we need to do is improve the realism of simulated vertigo.
We can start by simulating flight to simulate the real dizziness effect as much as possible. "
The second generation of brain-computer connection VR has only been launched not long ago, but follow-up research on brain-computer connection has already begun.
The products that consumers can see are at least one generation behind the products in corporate laboratories.
The goal of Kechuang Biotech is undoubtedly virtual reality. On the way to virtual reality, there are too many technologies that need to be overcome.
The Mage Alliance that Zheng Li previously belonged to has indeed mastered virtual reality technology, and it is a highly realistic virtual reality technology.
However, the virtual reality technology of the Mage Alliance is based on biological computers, and the entire computer technology of Blue Star is based on silicon.
How to realize virtual reality technology through silicon-based chips is also a topic that needs to be studied for Zheng Li.
Of course, Zheng Li’s vision and knowledge can help Science and Technology Biotechnology avoid detours.
After listening to this, Zheng Li felt that Li Wanqing had chosen the right direction, and dizziness was a good starting point.
In the past, Blue Star simulated sensations by using changes in the outside world to deceive the user's senses, rather than directly transmitting nerve signals in reverse.
The simulated race course that has been around for many years uses professional equipment to simulate the bumps of racing, and then pairs it with a huge high-definition screen to simulate the vision of driving.
Professional equipment deceives your body, and screen effects deceive your vision. The combination of the two achieves a feeling close to real racing.
Li Wanqing's idea is to combine visual deception and reverse transmission of neural signals so that humans can feel dizzy by using a brain-computer connection to VR.
“Technical breakthroughs in dizziness will provide unprecedented realism for flight software,” Li Wanqing continued.
From the very beginning of the large-scale launch of VR equipment on the market, the main application has been simulated flight driving.
VR equipment is also used in some pilot trainings, but the deception effect of pure vision is limited.
After all, there is a big difference between vertigo that relies solely on visual effects and vertigo that relies on the combined effects of vision, sensation, and vestibular function.
After listening, Zheng Li nodded and said: "I think there is nothing wrong with your idea, we can start with this.
But just a sense of dizziness, this technological innovation point, will not be able to support the third generation of brain-computer connected VR equipment next year.
But there is no rush, brain-computer connected VR can be updated to a new generation in two or even three years. "
Li Wanqing added: “After all, there are no pursuers behind us, and my former employer’s technology is still at the point where the brain-computer is connected to the mobile phone.
Our sense of time urgency is not that strong.
Of course, Mr. Zheng, don’t worry, I will definitely not relax my progress.
As for the point you mentioned, I think it can be solved by providing dizziness as a hardware plug-in to users.
For example, users who need to use flight simulation software will purchase this second-generation brain-computer link VR supplementary hardware.
This is based on the premise that our technology has not achieved major innovation this year. "
Zheng Li nodded and said, "Okay."
Li Wanqing continued: "Also, I would like to ask, is it possible for us to take the technical route of biochips?
I have recently read a lot of literature on biochips, including the Beiming-2 biological storage server of the Lion City R&D Center, and I have also studied it.
I think biochips can better identify and even judge the user's true intentions. "
Zheng Li knew in his heart that he actually had more technical reserves and a greater say in the field of biochips.
The technology displayed by Kechuang Biotechnology is already amazing enough, but it is still within the Blue Star technology framework, so the degree of deviation is not that high.
If they come up with another biochip later, will it lead to a more thorough investigation?
But then I thought about it, I was not in Suzhou anyway, and I left the research on biochips to the R&D center in the Lion City, and I only provided guidance on the technical path.
It's not impossible to do this.
Li Wanqing saw Zheng Li thinking, so he stayed quiet.
Zheng Li replied: "We can prepare a team to make biological memory chips.
Because the AI chip team in Cambridge has been working on brain-computer connection chips, you will receive the same budget support in the early stage.
In the end, we will decide whether to continue investing in this technical route based on the results.
If you show value, then you can merge the R&D team from Cambridge. "
Zheng Li was the one who helped Li Wanqing.
But the goal is also very difficult.
The AI chip team in Cambridge works on AI chips and algorithms. Among them, AI chips have been used in the latest generation of brain-computer connection VR.
