Before today, Tao Enhai would never have thought that the chairman of a large company would actually squeeze into the subway.
And he was dressed very casually.
Tao Enhai was a little weird about this: "Don't you drive a private car?"
"Unless I'm going home with my wife, I won't drive when the number of people is less than three." Xiang Shan said with a serious expression: "To protect the earth is to protect our home as human beings."
Tao Enhai rarely sees someone repeating this slogan so righteously. But...
He felt that the other party was not joking.
"By the way, my car was just driven away by my lover."
"Oh, I see."
Xiang Dong was wearing ordinary casual clothes and sneakers today. Except for the smart glasses on the bridge of his nose, which are very cutting-edge electronic products, everything else is an affordable item.
On the contrary, it was Tao Enhai himself, dressed in a suit and ties.
"Ah, by the way, since we are not conducting external business here and no outsiders will come to visit, we can dress more casually in the future." Xiang Shan said to Tao Enhai while swiping his fingers in front of him.
The first generation of smart glasses can only rely on voice and motion command capture to control. In noisy areas such as subways, voice commands may not be effective. Just now, Xiang Shan suddenly said, "They didn't wait for me." He also saw the smart glasses
React to the message.
The two of them quickly got on the subway. Although it is a suburb, it also looks like a high-tech industrial park, and there are quite a few people coming off work. Although the subway is not crowded, there are no seats to sit on.
Xiang Shan and Tao Enhai were standing in the middle of the two subway sections. While Xiang Shan was reading something, he explained to Tao Enhai the current main business scope of "Transhumanism".
Superman Enterprise is now mainly engaged in four fields. These four fields are "genetic engineering", "cognitive science", "information science" and "mechanical engineering". There are many overlapping projects in these four fields.
.
For example, "the correlation between certain cognitive abilities and genetics" is a content that spans the fields of "genetic engineering" and "cognitive science".
Another example is "using computers to reproduce the cognitive process of human thinking", which belongs to the overlapping area of "cognitive science" and "information science".
And these projects influence each other, forming an organic whole within Superman Enterprise. Tao Enhai has a vague feeling that these fields seem to be serving a big plan. But this "big plan" that he vaguely guessed, revealed
It gives off an unrealistic sci-fi feel.
Xiang Shan even revealed that Superman Enterprises invested in setting up a game incubation community in Northern Europe last year and reached cooperation with many well-known independent game producers to study "the mechanism of game behavior" and "the interaction process between game behavior and virtual reality."
” and “The Shaping of Virtual Communities by Game Behavior”.
"Ah, by the way, if we look at individual departments, the incubation community is the department with the highest profit margin and the fastest capital turnover of our Superman company." Xiang Shan said with regret.
After all, the company’s R&D organization is burning money. It’s burning enough money to bankrupt many small countries.
No matter how much you earn, it won’t be enough for scientific research.
Tao Enhai couldn't help but interrupt: "So...how do we make money? National financial allocation? Probably not..."
Xiang Shan nodded: "Part of it. But mainly I make money from 'products'. In fact, the country cannot withstand our extravagant burning..."
Tao Enhai was a little confused: "But I haven't seen your...our company's products?"
"No, actually you have seen it before." Xiang Shan whispered: "You used to be a doctor, right? Many of the new drugs in the past two years are marked with 'Yawill Preparation Method', right?"
"It seems...ah..." Tao Enhai really remembered. The Yawill preparation method is an efficient and safe method for preparing biological pharmaceuticals. Through gene editing, yeast can metabolize most types of organic compounds.
And the price is low.
Over the years, Yawill drugs have become mainstream in the market.
Then, it was mentioned in the textbook... or introduced by the medical representative. The inventor of the Yawill preparation method was none other than Yawgmoth Voigt.
"This is too...but..." Tao Enhai feels that doing this is a bit...a bit...immoral?
——Or am I too naive?
Similar stories have happened countless times in history. For example, Edison owned the patent for the best light bulb interface and the best filament. Therefore, no matter which company's light bulbs, it is impossible to compete with him.
"Of course, Doctor Tao, I know what you are thinking, but please listen to me." Xiang Shan said: "We can rely on this method to make money, but there are conditions. First of all, this patent is licensed to state-owned enterprises in all countries for free.
Enterprises or related departments. For private enterprises, we charge licensing fees at a fraction of a percent of the profits. At the same time, we also have a condition - if we adopt this patent, we must control the profit margin.
Within a lower range.”
Tao Enhai was silent for a moment: "Well...how did Mr. Voigt survive until now?"
In this way, all businessmen in the entire pharmaceutical industry will put Yawgmoth Voigt on the assassination list...
"That's why it should be provided to governments of various countries free of charge." Xiang Shan shrugged: "Not only this patent, but every one of our patents will be authorized for use by various countries. In addition to avoiding assassination, we can also get
Various policy supports.”
"All the patents we apply for are disclosed in the same way. Those capitalists either use our patents, or they don't use them, and then they are swallowed up by their peers. Of course, if they use them secretly, that's not bad. We
Although our legal department has a small number of people, we still have in-depth cooperation with several well-known law firms - they like patent lawsuits the most. Although those lawyers are with us, believe me, they are very inhumane.
.”
Xiang Shan seemed to have remembered something and laughed.
"But those pharmaceutical companies...and other companies will try their best to attack us, right?"
Unknowingly, Tao Enhai developed a sense of identification with this crazy company.
"Haha..." Xiang Shan smiled: "Don't worry about this, brother, most of the best scientists are on our side."
In fact, there will always be only a small group of "best scientists". This is undoubtedly true. If "academic influence" is converted into wealth with a numerical value, the Gini coefficient of the academic community will be higher than that of countries with the largest gap between rich and poor.
Even bigger.
Since Yawgmoth Voigt is a member of the Superman Enterprise, Xiangshan is indeed confident in saying this.
"It is precisely because we are all so good that everyone's predictions about the future of the industry are basically very accurate. We have always been the only ones who use this foresight to snipe others." Xiang Shan thought for a moment: "Although it is not the case.
As for the fact that we haven’t made any mistakes at all, the probability of us guessing wrong is still quite low.”
"How low?"
"Currently, my probability is 7%, David's is 3%, and Xinyu's is 16%? Anatole ignores it 100%...but he is doing pure theory." Xiangshan thought for a moment.
: "Well, although Yog is still zero, that is simply because the direction of technological development is defined by him and will not be discussed."
Tao Enhai was in awe.
It can be described as a percentage... How many patents does this company hold...
not to mention……
Tao Enhai also came back to his senses.
The core of a superhuman enterprise is the R&D department. They basically do not produce any physical products. Using patents to attack transhumanism is basically meaningless.
Following Xiang Shan's introduction, Tao Enhai gradually sketched a blueprint for this company in his mind.
The two of them chatted all the way. During this period, they were also accompanied by Xiangshan's words of "making soup, no salt and pepper" - probably ordering food. At about six o'clock, the two of them arrived at the front door.
"It suddenly occurred to me that this place is only one or two stops away from the West Third Ring Road." Xiang Shan sighed: "If I had known you were coming, why not just let you wait here? It would also avoid wasting time on the way back and forth."
Their destination was the Quanjude Headquarters at Daqianmen.
Tao Enhai thought this place was a bit flashy. He said, "Does the company usually have dinner here..."
"Yes, from your accent, you are also a local?" Xiangshan asked: "Let me tell you straight. I actually didn't really want to choose the location here. But today's location is indeed not my choice. The proportion of foreigners in the company
Too high, they, ah, how should I say, like this... understand?"
Tao Enhai nodded. Xiang Shan had already learned about the private room through his smart glasses. He took Tao Enhai directly over without asking the waiter.
Tao Enhai heard a burst of laughter from a distance. When he opened the door, he saw a young woman with white hair singing various versions of "The Internationale" in an unknown number of languages. There were several people around. In a corner of the restaurant
, and several people were divided into three groups and were arguing fiercely about something.
At this moment, Tao Enhai felt even more out of place.
In the whole box, I was the only one wearing formal clothes.
Everyone is in casual wear.
Xiang Shan coughed twice, but except for a few people who had noticed it, everyone else was still immersed in their own world. Xiang Shan had to raise his voice and said: "Comrades, let me introduce this person.
This is Dr. Tao Enhaitao whom I mentioned before. Starting tomorrow, he will join our research department. Welcome everyone."
Then, sparse applause came from the box.
It seems as if this chairman has no special dignity here.
Xiang Shan didn't take it seriously and directly arranged for Tao Enhai to sit next to someone.
Tao Enhai sat down and wanted to get acquainted with the person next to him.
But after seeing the person's appearance clearly, he exclaimed: "Mr. Voigt?"