As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Prelude to a new era
Chapter 1 Lost in 2020
The New York Times, in its final week of 2020 issue, used twenty phrases to define the entire year:

Black Lives Matter
Brain Link All
Blursday
magic coin
Circuit breaker
Contact tracing
Doomscrolling
Essential workers
Flatten the curve
Frontline workers
Endorphins
Most of these words revolve around two things.

Merlin's arrival and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maybe he shouldn't be called Merlin now.

Because there is a high probability that Merlin is not his real name, who cares, no matter what his name is, he has brought earth-shaking changes to the entire Blue Star in the past 15 years.

2020 is undoubtedly a year of confusion. Brain-computer connection technology and super-endurance lithium batteries are undoubtedly telling people that new breakthroughs have been achieved in technology.

The future is bright.

Even if these technologies were developed by a Chinese company.

But at that time, the people of all the Western world were full of confidence, thinking that it would be extremely easy for us to catch up with these technologies.

However, at the micro level, what is active around us is the never-ending growth of numbers, and the news of medical collapse can be heard everywhere.

At this time, I also learned about magic.

Even though it has been more than ten years since the magic coin system was proposed, I still don't understand how to calculate the cosmic coordinate system.

Even the cosmic coordinate system of the planet under my feet.

The superimposition of all kinds of things made the people of that year fall into incomparable confusion.

According to statistics from the American Bureau of Statistics in 2030, among college graduates in 2020, the proportion of choosing a gap year is the highest.

In addition to this data, the ANP consumer confidence index fell for [-] consecutive months that year. Even in the month when the brain-computer connected mobile phone was launched, the consumer confidence index was still falling.

Consumer confidence hit an all-time low in March 2013 at the end of the year.

The American stock market has fallen by 33% from its high point. You must know that the Fed has not raised interest rates at that time.

But at the same time, there is optimism in the pessimism. In just five months, American's stock market hit a record high.

The five-month recovery delivered a 164% annualized return.

The lack of confidence on the consumer side and the bottoming out on the investment side are both telling me that people will be confused in 2020.

What happened in 2020 reminded me of an incredible article Drew Dixon wrote on Amazon that included an interesting thought experiment.

Imagine it's 2007 and a group of research analysts are discussing Amazon's 2020 earnings.One group of analysts (let's call them the "value investing" group) thinks Amazon will have $2020 billion in revenue in 270.

But another group (let's call them the "value speculators" group) thinks Amazon's revenue will hit $370 billion at this point.

The two groups disagree on almost everything.They have different assumptions about the expected GDP growth rate, Amazon's profitability ratio, and Amazon's profitability in 2020.However, despite the differences, both groups were proven wrong.

Because Amazon's revenue in 2020 is not $270 billion or $370 billion, it's $3860 billion!
2020 is also the eve of great changes in the future, and everyone is confused, unable to guess or have the ability to guess what the future will hold.

From the perspective of investment, everyone chooses to vote for big companies and giants, and let them lead them out of the confused period. I believe that these once successful companies will still be successful in the future.

From the perspective of consumption, people don't believe that their future selves will live better than their current selves, so they choose to save food and clothing for future winter food for themselves.

It’s just that it’s different from everyone’s expectations. COVID-19 quickly disappeared without a trace due to the emergence of special drugs, but the influence of mages on Blue Star has continued to this day.

It has even profoundly changed all the lifestyles of modern people.

Including the article I am writing now, if it was read by no less than a million people 15 years ago, but now there are no 1 people.

Chapter 2 Unavoidable Science and Technology Creation

Since the earliest days of the information age, when we mention giants, we must refer to companies from American.From the earliest Bell Telephone Company, to the later Big Blue IBM, to the duo Microsoft and Apple in the personal PC era, and then to the Big4 in the mobile Internet era-Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.

These enterprises allow American to gain profits all over the world, and at the same time, people all over the world believe that only American can lead the future development of Bluestar, and only American has the ability to promote the advancement of Bluestar technology.

When did this phenomenon change?

Kechuangbio must be an unavoidable enterprise.

At the same time, it is also an enterprise that cannot be bypassed on the eve of the new era.

As a starting point for mages in Blue Star, mages implement their own will in Blue Star.

Kechuangbiology has enjoyed the dividends brought about by too many technological dimensionality reduction strikes.

So much so that today, there may be some people in Blue Star who don't know about Merlin, magic coin, or the Science City in Lion City, but there is absolutely no one who doesn't know about science and technology.

Everyone is using Kechuangbio's products and services provided by Kechuangbio.

Kechuangbio is the general term for all companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc. in this era.

In the presence of scientific and innovative creatures, the previous giants disappeared on the sea level like the afterglow of the setting sun.

Everyone will no longer think of American's technology companies, and no one will think that American's technology companies can achieve virtual worlds, bio-computers, and bio-communications.

Even the capitalists in American don't believe we can do it.

When Kechuangbio made a brain-computer connection to a mobile phone, Wall Street was scrambling to invest in brain-computer connection startups in Silicon Valley, basically with a minimum investment of 2000 million US dollars.

Even if your business was only established yesterday in a garage with only three people, then I will vote 2000 million dollars for you.

The investment enthusiasm of all investors is high.

After Kechuangbiology took out its brain computer and connected it to VR, the situation began to change, and Wall Street would only believe in some fruitful companies.

For start-ups, even if their teams are all PhDs or even professors in related majors graduated from top universities such as MIT, Stanford, and Princeton, capital will not invest too much money in them.

During this period, Musk’s Neuralink can still enjoy a valuation of 300 billion U.S. dollars, while other brain-computer connected startups cannot enjoy a valuation of 2000 million U.S. dollars.

After the release of virtual reality equipment in the future, as long as it is a field involved in science and technology creation, or in other words, as long as it is a field involved in mages, all capital will abstain from this field.

Morgan has invested two to three billion US dollars in Neuralink, and in the end they will sell all Neuralink's shares even if they lose money.

And no longer enter the field of brain-computer connection.

The same is true for other investment institutions. The entire field of brain-computer connection, VR field and even the entire Internet industry is in depression.

In the words of Hua Guo, it means that when a whale is born, everything falls.

Scientifically innovative creatures are like whales, robbing the entire ecosystem of nutrients.

It is not only American's companies that are affected, but also Huaguo's companies.

Huaguo's Internet companies and American's Internet companies are highly similar in terms of how they started their businesses, capital operations before and after listing, and the retreat they chose under the influence of the virtual world.

I guess this has something to do with them being incubated by Wall Street capital.

Huaguo's Internet giant is called BAT. Like American's Internet giant, BAT retains a small number of people to maintain the normal operation of the main business, and most of its energy is turned to the financial industry.

The Internet business has long been unprofitable, and it can be seen from the source of their annual report Lilan that they belong to an Internet giant, and only Bluestar No. [-]'s Lilan shares.

It took less than 1000 years for Kechuang Bio to become the only giant in the world from a company with a paid-in capital of less than 20 million US dollars.

Achieved the goal that all Internet companies want to achieve, but failed:

That is to let all users live in the ecology provided by themselves.

Google wants to do it, from Chrome browser, YouTube to Google Search, Google Maps, Google App Store to Android system.

Microsoft wants to do the same, from the operating system to the desktop entertainment Xbox to the big acquisition of Blizzard.

Not to mention Apple, Apple's family bucket, from software to hardware, is an all-round integrated product construction.

It’s just that no matter how hard these companies try, it’s impossible for users to only use their products, but Kechuang Biotech has done it.

With the help of the virtual world, a carrier that only has concepts but no real objects on Bluestar, people can meet most of the needs in the real world in the virtual world.

In Blue Star No. [-], a Blue Star world close to the real world was built, and the services provided were more than ten times cheaper than those in the real world.

I can't even remember how long it's been since I've driven a car in the real world.

In Bluestar II, you can appear on any section of any street in Bluestar, choose any vehicle that existed in history, and step on the accelerator to the angle you want.

Even if the car crashes and people die, it's just a reload.

I know that people who read this article will think that there is something wrong with me, isn't this kind of life very good?
I feel that as the editor-in-chief of the New York Times, even in the real world, I can enjoy a quality of life that is almost the same as that in the virtual world. For most people who are struggling near the food and clothing line, the virtual world has greatly enriched them. spiritual world and material world.

I don't hate virtual worlds, I just don't like the feeling that everyone lives in a virtual world.

Although I typed this article word by word in front of the computer in the virtual world.

Back to Kechuangbiology, Kechuangbio let people see the power of science and technology, and the power of science and technology can be seen at a glance.

Technology is the core competitiveness and the most powerful moat of an enterprise.

So much so that in the real world, investment demand is extremely shrinking, and all industrial capital will ask a question before investing: Where are your technical barriers?

Technology has become a concern of all contemporary investors.

Chapter 3 The Great Reshuffle of the Food Industry

After the virtual world came out, all industries were pessimistic.

Think that needs will shrink, and after people have been satisfied in the virtual world, will they still need to be satisfied in the real world?
Only the food industry is optimistic.

It is believed that the virtual world still cannot provide enough energy for people in the real world.

Everyone feels that the spring of the food delivery industry and the catering industry is coming.

Originally, in the past 20 years, with the popularity of takeaway, fewer and fewer people choose to cook by themselves.

Even in New York, where the delivery fee for a meal fluctuates around $10, the food delivery industry is still growing at a rate of 50% per year.

But what I didn't expect was that after the Blue Star II was put into use, it would cooperate with the large-scale deployment of the biological communication network.

The first to be shuffled is the food industry.

McDonald's, KFC, and Starbucks, which have existed for hundreds of years, suffered unprecedented huge losses in those years.

At the same time, Starbucks became the first giant to fall in the food industry two years later.

What the virtual world brings is the complexity of taste. As long as you can reproduce the taste, you can reproduce the taste in the virtual world.

For example, in the real world, we have developed a dish, and it is difficult for me to know whether people will like its taste.

But in the virtual world, I can taste it to countless people and get feedback from each other.

If there are enough good reviews, then I can officially include this dish in my real-world menu and offer it to users.

People have known for a long time that regions, races, and growth environments can differentiate a person's tastes.

The virtual world allows catering groups to customize tastes, including fried chicken, a product that seems to have a recipe that can be used for hundreds of years, but will still be defeated by more customized tastes.

As for why Starbucks is the first giant to fall, it is because your competitors can provide users with the taste he wants.

And users can fully taste dozens of coffee flavors online without letting him ingest any caffeine.

After the user selects the flavor he wants, he can go to pick up the meal offline.

Ruixing Coffee, which used this strategy, forced Starbucks to close down in just one year.

As for why Starbucks doesn't use the same strategy, I think you should ask Howard.

However, I guess that the price was not negotiated. Ruixing chose to sell a large part of the shares to Ari in exchange for the permission of Bluestar II to sense and enter.

And Starbucks has been unable to negotiate prices with these authorized Internet giants for a long time.

But the good news is that Apple has acquired the bankrupt Starbucks, and we can see the rebirth of Starbucks in the near future.

Except that the catering industry uses feeling input, and then provides this feeling to the user, allowing the user to determine his most desired taste, and then provide it to the other party in the real world after determination.

There are also some industries trying to use the virtual world to achieve their own goals, such as
marijuana.

META cooperates with the marijuana group to provide marijuana of various flavors for American's virtual world users.