Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 832 Formation of Internet Business Backbone Network
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In fact, before the official announcement, these two research results were already very eye-catching in the small circle.

For example, among the patients receiving cocktail therapy, there is a very famous NBA star Alvin Johnson Jr. nicknamed "Magic Johnson".On November 1991, 11, he announced to the public that he was infected with the AIDS virus and that he would retire soon, which shocked the American people.

The research institute under Tang Huan got involved in this field very early, and the cocktail therapy naturally came out much earlier—it was too much fun, and as a result, Magic Johnson, who won the bid, became a test product in a hurry, and the treatment The effect is also quite good.

The biggest proof is that Magic Johnson participated in the 1992 NBA All-Star Game as the main guard, led the West Coast Star Team, defeated the East Coast Star Team by 40 points, and won the Most Valuable Player of the game; Then he was selected into the "Dream Team" and went to the Barcelona Olympics.

Confident in his physical fitness, Magic Johnson caused a huge stir by announcing his comeback after his triumphant return from Barcelona.The reason, saying that the status of the court is false, the key is that other players are afraid of his illness.

The rivers and lakes are deep-many NBA stars, including Michael Jordan, have remained silent, and only Karl Malone has publicly opposed it.

It was not until the opening of the 1992-1993 season that in the last warm-up game of the Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson had a small wound on his arm and bled, which scared the other players to keep their distance nervously. Things are different now than before, and I have to give up the idea of ​​a comeback.

In short, Magic Johnson's illness was perfectly controlled by the cocktail therapy. If it weren't for people's fear of AIDS, he could still play-this advertisement is enough to make the cocktail therapy a widely accepted treatment. up.

In terms of genetic engineering, since the 1970s, the competition in research has become more and more fierce, especially the continuous improvement of computer performance has played an auxiliary role in it, which is even more powerful.

The world's first genetically modified rooster is a milestone, and on this basis, the research on cloning sheep will be carried out.

The "007" series of movies "Clone Crisis" released the year before, and "Jurassic Park", which is currently being screened, are helping to hype the concept of genetic engineering from the side.

It doesn't matter if you have different opinions on this. The more intense the debate, the hotter the concept, which can attract more resources; but the terrorism represented by Ted Kaczynski has the most negative effect.

Fortunately, Ted Kaczynski's anti-human industrial civilization manifesto - "On Industrial Society and Its Future" was not publicly published by the authoritative media, and he himself was analyzed by the media as a man with a high IQ but a psychological existence. The pitiful and hateful people in question have not formed a real countercurrent, which in turn affects the prepared momentum.

Now, the American people are more interested in the gossip, such as how this elusive genius bomber was found out, who the richest man gave the huge reward of 100 million US dollars to, and the so-called relationship between human beings and industrial civilization. , to hell with it.

actually.Tang Huan did not "secretly" the US$100 million himself, but casually set up a related charity fund and donated it.

The funny thing is that the $100 million that Summer Redstone gave to clear up the relationship could not find a recipient.

Otherwise, this man is a tycoon that cannot be compared with Barry Diller. He actually faced the strange eyes of the media and visited the richest man's house with great agility and expressed his attitude directly - to whom did you give your $100 million? Give it my $100 million too!

The richest man was busy preparing his speech, so he didn't have time to step on this landmine, and after entertaining him for a while, he sent him away.

Afterwards, Summer Redstone said to the reporter without exaggeration: "Tang is indeed a very charming person, as the rumors tell me. I am deeply sorry for the inappropriate remarks I made because I didn't know him well. .”

"Practice, moral..." While the outside world was dumbfounded by this, Summer Redstone was [-]% clear of the relationship, restored his business reputation, and then had the energy to adjust his chaotic financial situation, so that he dared to ask His wife—the prodigal woman who will cause trouble, is she still divorced or not? .

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As soon as U.S. President Bill Clinton took office, he made drastic changes in American society in accordance with liberal ideals.These include increasing taxes on the wealthy, launching various big government programs, allowing gays to serve openly in the military, reforming the medical and health insurance system, etc. The results have caused a strong backlash from conservatives and the situation can be described as chaotic.

In a clear sign of frustration with openly gay men and women in the U.S. military challenging tradition, amid strong opposition from the right and the military, Bill Clinton announced on July 7 that he would "Don't ask," don’t_tell” – “Don’t ask, don’t tell” as a compromise.

Fortunately, what Bill Clinton and Al Gore promised to the richest man, the commercialization of NSFNET, the backbone network established by the National Science Foundation for the interconnection between universities, is progressing smoothly, only one short of being called Belongs to the US Congressional hearings of the form.

The reason why this link is described as easy is that at this stage both houses of the U.S. Congress are controlled by the Democrats, and with Bill Clinton, a Democrat, serving as the current president, the passage is basically a certainty. up.

It is not difficult to see from this how radical Bill Clinton's governance is - even though he can cover the sky with one hand, he still hits a wall.

Although logically speaking, this process would be very simple, after all, there are many strange things in the United States, and Congress is no exception. Tang Huan still cautiously made special and careful preparations.

In this way, the richest man joined HP's new board chairman, CEO and president Louis Pratt, Intel board chairman Gordon Moore and other business leaders, as well as some computer academic elites, and came to the United States on Capitol Hill, Huasheng Shield District. House of Parliament.

Tang Huan looked around and felt that there were slightly more members of Congress present. It was estimated that in addition to specialized agencies such as the Science and Technology Committee, there were other members present.

in addition.Some members of the public whose applications were approved also came to join in the fun.

First of all, the National Science Foundation reported on the operation of NSFNET since its inception - several times the bandwidth has been greatly increased, showing the vigorous development of Internet applications.

Next, the richest man gave a speech as an industry leader and interest representative.

Tang Huan's careful preparation is also related to the fact that Chinese people rarely show up on such occasions. The recognized beginning is still on February 1943, 2, when the Meiling lady called on all walks of life in the United States to support China's anti-war lobbying.

The content of his speech, starting from the current industry data analysis, referring to past successful cases, and looking forward to the broad prospects of the future, he expounded eloquently and eloquently for about 10 minutes.

Mr. Richest Man, who didn't carry any shorthand materials, was the first to be fascinated by the demeanor of freely swaying and pointing out the country, so that warm applause broke out from the auditorium.

During the question and answer session, Tang Huan became the absolute center of attention, even facing some almost nonsensical questions.

For example, a congressman asked, "Tang, will you continue to write your best-selling book "The Rise of Great Powers"?"

Speaking of which, the book "The Rise of the Great Powers" published by the richest man a long time ago hinted at the ending of the Soviet Union, but no one paid attention to it at the time. Recently, it has been "revisited" in a way that seems to be over-interpreted. This has to be Thanks to the rapid development of the Internet, the convenience of communication in brainstorming has been brought about.

The reason why Tang Huan originally cut "The Rise of Great Powers" was because he had interests in exploring the global market at that time, but now there is no need for it.

Therefore, Mr. Richest Man replied seriously and frankly: "The Rise of Great Powers was already finished when it was published. If you are interested in my work, you can pay attention to my upcoming new book about looking forward to the future of digital technology .and I can add my own signature if you want."

Tang Huan's humor aroused a lot of laughter, but digression still happened from time to time.

For another example, someone asked seriously: "Tang, how do you deal with your competitors?"

"Your Excellency, do you mean those people who quarreled with me?" The richest man skillfully avoided the important point: "After returning from this business trip, Summer Redstone seems to like to argue with me. In a recent meeting, he said that I am a little Not like Darth Vader, because I'm not as cool as Darth Vader, and when I talk, I even breathe the air of the earth, it's so boring that I don't have the slightest characteristic."

This time, first of all, those members of Congress burst into laughter for the first time.

In this way, on the strange line that is sometimes serious and sometimes deviates, the hearing has reached the end, and it seems that it is indeed easy on the surface.

During a gap, Louis Platt smiled and said to the richest man: "Don, it seems that the rumor is not unfounded?"

"What rumors?" Tang Huan asked casually.

"With your channels, haven't you heard?" Louis Platt asked slightly surprised: "It is the federal government that wants to hire you to serve business and trade."

HP, which has recently placed more emphasis on RISC microprocessors and servers, has a business that is by no means limited to the computer field.Like Motorola, it has undertaken many U.S. defense projects, but its business with the government, although extremely important, is often deliberately ignored by public opinion.

Ten years after the original time and space, Motorola was divided into two.The media is just hyping how it sold itself to Google, sucked up the blood of patents, and then sold it to Lenovo in China. The consumer-grade product line, and Motorola Solutions, which has obtained the enterprise-grade product line, is the real successor of the old Motorola, which is divided into the government and public safety department and the cellular mobile infrastructure department of the previous company.

These established companies have a deep political background, and even David Puckard, one of the co-founders of HP, also served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States in the Nixon cabinet.

Therefore, Louis Pratt's gossip is highly credible.

However, the richest man did get some rumors through his own channels.After all, whether it was Bush Sr. or Clinton, he had made the right bet, and even noticed the relevant background checks and political reviews conducted by the federal government on him.

"I said why there seem to be a lot of congressmen present today, and even the questions are so varied that they almost go off topic. It turns out that they have the purpose of investigation." The richest man shook his head with a smile, and said playfully: "Actually, during President Bush's time, I I received a similar temptation, but at that time I really couldn't get away from the busy business affairs, so I declined."

"If Don can accept such an offer, it will be good news for the entire Silicon Valley." Louis Platt suggested very earnestly: "Take the 'Millennium Bug' problem you raised as an example. , the global business opportunities it provides are simply unimaginable, but this requires industry leaders to communicate with the actual leaders of each market - various governments, in order to truly develop it."

"It's not urgent." The richest man waved his hand, "The Uruguay round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is in full swing, and it is estimated that results will be produced next year. By then, international trade barriers will be further eliminated, and market development should It will save a lot of effort than before.”

"In front of us, it is urgent to let the backbone of the Internet grow up as soon as possible."

Seeing that Tang Huanzhi was not here, Louis Pratt couldn't help showing disappointment on his face.

In fact, I have to say one more thing-the rivers and lakes are deep.

On the surface, it seems that Tang Huan was elected by the public as the representative of the political interests of the IT industry, so that he can lead everyone to make a fortune from a higher level; but secretly there is a conspiracy, that is, he hopes that the richest man can start from business. Give me more points and put some thought into it - Gein, you are too focused and you are putting a lot of pressure on everyone to compete!

Tang Huanying was so powerful and wise as the sea, how could he not notice this sinister wind?
It's just that the mystery of Eastern philosophy's rare confusion lies in this-put it on for a while, let's see the situation before we talk.

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Shortly after the hearing, the National Science Foundation's NSFNET was successfully approved and officially became commercially available within the year.

This news further clarified the development prospects of the Internet, which caused a lot of turmoil.

(End of this chapter)