Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

Chapter 475 The Incomprehensible Internet
After communicating with Zhuang Mofeng, Jiang Chen came to the Internet project team.

The Internet Project Group and the Communications Group are the two projects he will be in charge of in the future.

Among these two projects, the Internet group is the main one.

This is a large project group, and there are multiple project teams under the project.

For example, network group, computer and component group, programming group, information group, material chemistry group, etc.

Although they are all under the Internet project team, everyone focuses on different areas.

The personnel are all elites from various industries drawn from all over the country.

Luo Xue, who had just completed research on precision machine tools, was also in this group.

Such as Cao Jun and his wife, Wan Li, Zhao Dongsheng, etc.

There are also former engineering staff who have been following and supporting him since the Sangang Group.

The Internet is a huge challenge and also a huge pie.

He will naturally take care of what he can take care of.

Liu Yue is now the third person in the laboratory and is responsible for coordinating the entire situation, so she did not join in alone.

This can be considered as a gamble made by the higher-ups and the Ministry of Industry, based on their trust and feedback to Jiang Chen, for something they all thought was impossible.

This team, led by Jiang Chen himself, will be his main focus for a long time to come.

But now, everyone in this group is confused.

I have no idea what I should do.

Among the several groups, except for the materials chemistry group, the other groups could not even understand the names of their own groups.

For example, the Internet group, they don’t know what the Internet is.

The programming team doesn’t even understand what programming is.

Therefore, first of all, we need to give them a systematic conceptual explanation so that they know in which direction they should work towards.

Jiang Chen gathered all the members of the Internet project team together and began his presentation:
"What I'm going to talk about today may be a bit advanced and hard to imagine. But it doesn't matter. If you can understand it, then you can. If you can't understand it, that's fine. You just need to know the direction of our work."

"Now is the era of industry and agriculture, the era of laying the foundation. In the future, it will definitely be the era of information, and information-related intangible industries will become the most critical resources."

"By then, the production method based on large machines, large industries and a large number of people will no longer be the mainstream. Only countries that lead in information technology and knowledge can become powerful and wealthy countries."

"The advent of the information age will bring about earth-shaking changes in our lives. Let me give you a few examples."

"In the future, no matter what problems we encounter or what news information we want to know, as long as it does not involve confidential information, we can get all the answers by typing a few words on the keyboard."

"When we buy something, we just need to place an order and pay online, and the item will be delivered to our home very quickly. Yes, it will be delivered to our home."

"To contact relatives and friends, just click twice, you can not only talk to them instantly, but also see them in person, just like they are standing in front of you, with every move clearly visible."

"We want to hold a meeting, even if we are in different places, as long as we open the Internet, we can have a real-time meeting and communicate without barriers."

"We can remotely control the electrical appliances in our home, turn on and off the lights, and control the temperature and humidity even when we are not at home."

"Our planes, cars, trains, ships, firefighting equipment, etc., can all be operated without human control. We can issue commands remotely, and they can perform various actions according to our instructions."

After listening to Jiang Chen’s explanation, everyone looked at each other, becoming more and more confused.

They feel like their brain stems are going to be obscene.

These things that are commonplace in later generations are simply unimaginable in this era.

If Jiang Chen wasn't famous, someone might have criticized him and said he was crazy and delusional.

Jiang Chen looked at everyone's expressions and asked with a smile, "Are you unbelievable?"

Everyone looked at each other and answered:
"Not only do I not believe it, I don't even dare to think about it." "Dean Jiang, is there really even a slight possibility that what you said will come true?"

"It's too unbelievable, too idealistic."

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Let me tell you one thing. Looking at the history of human development, the improvement of productivity and the development of science and technology in the past few decades have exceeded the total of the past several thousand years."

“It can be said that mankind has entered an era of technological explosion. Countless things that were previously considered impossible have become reality in a short period of time.”

"In the future, the speed of technological development will be even faster than it is now. The world may change every day."

“So, everything is possible.”

Those who can sit here are elites from all walks of life, and their understanding is naturally stronger than that of ordinary people.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that what Jiang Chen said is indeed true.

If the phrase "technological explosion" had been said a few decades later, the contrast would have been even more obvious.

But it’s not an exaggeration to say it now.

"Yeah, who would dare to imagine that a piece of iron could grow wings and carry people to fly in the sky."

"In the past, only myths and legends had clairvoyance and clairaudience. Isn't that what we have today, telescopes and telephones?"

"We never thought that we could destroy a city of hundreds of thousands of people with just a flick of our fingers."

As soon as these words were spoken, there was silence.

Because that thing is now hanging over the flower growers' heads, and no one knows when it will fall.

It's scary.

After a while, someone asked, "President Jiang, what do you rely on to realize this ideal world you mentioned?"

"Damn it!" Jiang Chen stood up and wrote three big words on the blackboard.

the Internet.

After finishing writing, Jiang Chen continued: "So, what is the Internet?"

Jiang Chen continued to draw on the blackboard.

A circle is drawn in the middle, representing the Internet.

It is surrounded by a circle of boxes, the larger of which represents the server and the other smaller ones represent terminals.

Servers and terminals are connected by wires and the Internet.

This simple painting made Wanli shake his head.

What the hell is this painting?

Jiang Chen himself was a little embarrassed: "This is a simple diagram of the Internet. It's a bit sloppy, but don't pay attention to the details."

“The Internet is at the center, linking servers and terminals, and its core function is interconnection and close interaction.”

"And these wires are the medium for information transmission, which can transmit various types of information and requests efficiently, quickly, and without loss or with extremely low loss."

"It's a bit like a telephone line, but it's definitely not the case. Current telephone lines cannot bear such a strong demand for information transmission, and the loss is too great."

"I named this big box a server. Its main function is to store information and respond to various service requests."

"These small boxes are our computer terminals. On the Internet, they mainly play the role of sending interactive requests and reading information."

"Of course, it will include more functions, it all depends on our needs and implementation methods."

"This is a small diagram of the Internet. Countless Internets like this can form an Internet that connects the world."

(End of this chapter)