1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 100 Native Language Advantage
Liu Chuanzi nodded.

"Student Lu, I can understand your thoughts and expectations. I can also understand that all of you here at the scene are eager for our country to become more technologically advanced and one day surpass the United Kingdom and the United States..."

"But..."

"Reality does not allow for any assumptions!"

"Students, you are all the proud children of our country. I believe you all have your own understanding and judgment of the future trends of world science and technology..."

"I will not give any random definitions here, or randomly guide your thinking..."

"I'm just talking about a very simple concept..."

"That is how the advantage of the mother tongue plays an indispensable role in the process of scientific and technological development and progress..."

The students present were discussing this matter.

What does mother tongue advantage mean?

This is something they are all naturally very clear about.

The main trend of world science and technology is undoubtedly to use English as the main carrier. At present, the world's most advanced high-tech technical consultation, information, research articles, journals and even the language of communication between scientists are all based on English.

This is the natural advantage of the native language that foreign countries have in conducting scientific and technological research and development. This is a reality that cannot be disputed, and it cannot be ignored.

This group of people experienced all kinds of hardships when they were learning English.

And when your English proficiency is not up to standard, you will encounter natural difficulties in academic research, etc.

Isn't that the fact that our mother tongue advantage is not as good as that of our overseas Western counterparts?

"What Liu Gong said is absolutely right. We at Dongda University are engaged in high-tech research and development, but we are really congenitally lacking the advantage of our mother tongue. We suffer a huge disadvantage!"

"Yes, yes. The more advanced and sophisticated the new high-tech development field is, the greater the loss we will suffer in terms of our mother tongue advantage. We will have to spend at least one-third more energy to overcome the language barrier. This will really become a gap that will always hinder the technological research and development capabilities of our Dongda scientific research circle..."

"Let's not talk about anything else for now. Let's focus on the application of the PC industry that is emerging in the West. The civilianization and private enjoyment of high-tech collections such as personal computers undoubtedly represent the most fundamental carrier in the development of a country's high-tech technology. The more effectively high-tech is integrated into all aspects of people's daily lives, the more it undoubtedly means the level of development of a country in modern industrial and technological civilization. This concept is undeniable, right!"

Liu Chuanzi talked about the future of PC-based applications of computers.

After all, he is an engineer from the National Institute of Computing Technology. He gave students popular science about the future development of the computer industry in public, which can be regarded as putting his knowledge into practice.

"Student Lu, have you ever come into contact with computers?"

Liu Chuanzi asked Lu Yifan again, looking at the question, Lu Yifan thought that with all the computers he had come into contact with, no one in the world is qualified to show off in front of him!
He also nodded. Driven by curiosity, he had already taken time to visit and study the computer room of Yanqing Second School.

That kind of antique domestically produced mainframe computer.

In the same product field, compared with IBM's mainframe products, it is comparable in terms of performance and usability.

This is actually the performance limit of diode circuit computer products.

Liu Chuanzi continued: "Mr. Lu, can you imagine that a great company specializing in the production and manufacturing of personal computers was born on the other side of the ocean..."

When he said this, Liu Chuanzi gestured in front of everyone.
“Classmates, this is hard for you to believe!
The computing power of a personal PC of this size is no less than that of the most advanced domestic mainframe currently owned by our Yanqing Second School.

And this is the main trend of development of the computer industrial revolution.

While we are still feeling complacent about the excellent performance of domestic mainframes.

Westerners are actually already making drastic innovations for the personalized application of computer products. Can you imagine what kind of technological gap that is?" "To put it bluntly, every time our domestically produced PC personal computer products are delayed in coming to the market, our East China University will be left behind by five or ten years in the development period of Europe, America and the West in the tide of the computer industrial revolution..."

For the future development of computer products.

Of course, Lu Yifan knew it better than anyone else present.

He also had to admit that the powerful words that Liu Chuanzi talked about on the spot were indeed an indisputable reality.

At a time when Europe, America and the West are making great strides in developing and innovating generation after generation of computer products.

Domestically, on the original time and space line, the country has not thought about catching up and sticking to the main trend of computer development so as not to fall too far behind.

Otherwise, a few years later, across the street from Yanqing Second School, a high-tech company like Zhongguancun would not have been born, such as the two early giants of Zhongguancun, Liangtong and Lianghai, and later, Lianxiang, which was supported by the National Institute of Computing Technology with all its resources. Liu Chuanzi insisted on taking the "trade, industry and technology" route, which consumed all the policy resources and eventually grew into the world's leading super assembly plant...

"Student Lu, you asked me before, when will our country's high-tech development surpass that of the United Kingdom and the United States and become world-class..."

"I really can't answer this question for you..."

"But there is one thing I can tell you the answer to as clearly as possible..."

"That is, if we, a non-English speaking country, want to make a difference in the field of personal PC development and catch up with the level of Europe and the United States, we will have to face a practical problem that we can never avoid. We lack the advantage of our mother tongue. The most basic problem is our Chinese character input efficiency, which is enough to kill all the driving forces of our country's own R&D and technological innovation..."

"how?"

"Student Lu, you didn't quite understand what I was saying?"

"Mr. Lu, you have seen a typewriter, right?"

“Imagine that for native English speakers, all they need to do is design a very simple and reasonable keyboard to perfectly solve the problem of English text information input?”

"But as the most basic human-computer interaction application, if you want to complete the input of a Chinese character, how should you do it?"

"Pinyin?"

"Or something even more ridiculous, like designing a giant keyboard with thousands of keys?"

“This is the so-called mother tongue advantage!”

"Unfortunately, our Dongda University is inherently deficient in this aspect!"

"So, you should understand what I mean!"

"Ideals are just ideals after all. We must face reality and confront it squarely. We cannot talk about the development trend of science and technology in an evasive manner. Otherwise, it is just deceiving ourselves..."

So much nonsense.

You, Liu Chuanzi, simply want to make everyone present believe that Southeast University is inherently deficient in the field of high-tech development and will never be able to surpass the West because of your bullshit remarks about the mother tongue advantage.

So you, Liu Chuanzi, have been determined to become a technology giant from the very beginning, right?
"So what you mean, Mr. Liu, is that as long as we can solve the problem of Chinese character input efficiency, our Dongda University can still surpass the UK and the US in the future development of the personal PC industry, right?"

Liu Chuanzi: “…………”

Lu Yifan, "I will solve the problem of Chinese character input method efficiency. Mr. Liu, you are too biased in your argument about the advantage of mother tongue in the development of science and technology. I don't agree with you. To put it bluntly, you are too pro-Western and underestimate the advantage of our mother tongue in Dongda..."

(End of this chapter)