Global monopoly of technology

The next guest on the stage was one of the Silicon Valley's big names who were named and blamed in the opening speech, Google founder Larry Page.

Page gave an unwritten speech on the podium, responded to Karawald's criticism, and gave his own plan to repair the Internet.

Well, the boss directly "lined" Karawald on the spot.

Page’s core ideas include two points: First, use new technologies to solve existing technical problems, such as using algorithms to find violating remarks, and delete them after manual confirmation.Second, by redesigning products to encourage meaningful conversations, Google and MIT Media Lab cooperated, hoping to redefine meaningful online conversations, and finally found four dimensions, including "Is there any overlap between the two parties' communication?" Is it based on the same facts; Is it open and polite to know the existence of different views?"

However, Page's reply did not satisfy the critics, just as Karawald's judgment made many tech giants feel inexplicable.

But it is the point of the TED conference that puts people with different views on the same occasion to promote dialogue, and then find solutions to problems.

The first day of the conference was full of gunpowder. People including journalists, Zhengzhi consultants, and big tech experts discussed how to face the problems caused by the Internet and how to conduct dialogues in the context of conflicting views.

Larry Page’s speech lasted more than six minutes on stage before it ended.

The male and female hosts presiding over the conference said in both Chinese and English: "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to invite the Blue Coast and Bluestar Technology Group founder and CEO Luo Sheng."

As early as two minutes ago, the staff on the scene had already contacted Luo Sheng privately, and he had already left from the seat of the boss area.

After a while, in a round of applause, the audience all watched with surprised eyes as the young world's richest man pushed an iron bucket onto the podium.

What the hell?

Everyone couldn't understand this strange operation of the world's richest man at all, and for a while, curiosity also came.

Luo Sheng glanced at the tin bucket he pushed onto the podium, clapped his hands, and preached: "When my parents were children, the disaster that people were most worried about was nuclear war, so we had this in the basement. Tin barrels are placed in the cellar. They are used to store food to ensure that when a nuclear war breaks out, we can hide in the basement and rely on the food to survive."

When many people in China heard this, they immediately thought of some historical marks: digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and building dams.

Although Luo Sheng can speak fluent English, he speaks in his native language in the Mainland, and the audience has professional instant human translators.

I saw him facing the audience and said: "The most dangerous thing in contemporary global disasters does not look like this kind of thing anymore, but this kind of thing."

While he was speaking, two pictures passed by the giant screen at the conference. The first picture is a huge nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, and the second picture is a microbial virus invisible to the naked eye.

Luo Sheng: "If there is something that can kill thousands of humans in the next few decades, it is more likely to be a highly infectious biological virus, not war. Part of the reason is that humans are nuclear A lot of energy and financial resources have been invested in deterrence, but we have invested very little in the system to prevent the epidemic. The world has not yet done a good job of preventing the next major epidemic."

The elites present at the meeting suddenly seemed particularly surprised. They thought that Luo Sheng would be on stage to give lectures on consumer electronics or Internet technology-related content, but never expected that he would give lectures on life sciences.

Suddenly, people came up with an idea, does Luo Sheng have a new action?

Is it related to life sciences this time?

Indeed, the approval of the P4 laboratory has been obtained, and the content that Luo Sheng prepared today is to warm up the next layout work.

For a moment, Luo Sheng on the podium called up an image and then said: “Let’s take a look at the Ebola virus first. I believe everyone has read about such news in newspapers or Internet media. It is full of many difficult things. Challenge, use our polio case analysis tool to carefully track the development of these viruses."

"With the development of the epidemic, we can see that the problem is not that we do not have a system that can be used, but that there is no system at all in the world. We can see that there are several obvious shortcomings. Prepared epidemiologists go to the epidemic area to see the pathology and the development of the disease."

"The pathology is all uploaded from news reports. Basically, the time for uploading the information has been delayed very late. In addition, it is still very uncertain. We can't find many well-trained medical teams, and we don't have a set for people. The way to wait."

"At present, Doctors Without Borders has made a great contribution to the mobilization of volunteers. This needs to be confirmed. But even so, the speed at which we mobilize thousands of workers to the epidemic area is still very unsatisfactory, and a major epidemic even requires We mobilize hundreds of thousands or even millions of people on a super large scale."

Having said that, Luo Sheng paused, pacing back and forth on the stage, and after a while, he continued:

"We don’t have anyone looking at the direction of the data, no one is looking at the diagnosis method, and no one is thinking about what tools to use. For example, we may be able to draw the blood of the survivors, after processing, and then inject the plasma The human body protects people who are not sick, but this method has never been tried before. What is even more frustrating is that it is too late for many things to be done before it is too late. This is indeed a global failure for all mankind."

"The purpose of the World Health Organization is to monitor the epidemic, not to do the things I just talked about, but the plot in the movie is another matter. A group of handsome and beautiful epidemiologists are ready to go. The epidemic area saved everyone who was affected and became a hero, but this is a pure Hollywood-style happy ending."

The audience saw a sci-fi disaster movie poster on the giant screen. The handsome and beautiful heroine and heroine looked solemn, but the audience burst into laughter.

The auditorium soon quieted down. After a while, Luo Sheng said seriously and intently: "Our lack of preparation may cause the next epidemic to be more serious than the Ebola virus. Then let’s take a look at the Ebola virus. The development situation in West Africa in the past year."

Before the curtain fell, he immediately showed a visual dynamic data evolution model, and Luo Sheng continued: "...About ten thousand people died, all of them were in the three countries of West Africa. I think there are three reasons why they did not spread. Reasons."

"The first reason is the many heroic deeds done by health workers. They have found many patients and prevented more people from getting sick. The second reason is the characteristics of the virus. Ebola virus is not transmitted by air, but wait When the communicator has enough infectious power, most people are already sick; the third reason is that the virus has not spread to the metropolis."

Having said that, Luo Sheng faced everyone with a serious expression, and the conference scene was also quiet, only his voice.

"To be honest, it was pure luck that it did not break out in the metropolis. If the Ebola virus spread to a super metropolis with a population of tens of millions, I really dare not imagine how terrible it would be. Disaster."

"So the next time we may not be so lucky. Some viruses may make you unaware, but when people infected with the virus take transportation, or go to densely populated areas such as shopping malls, they actually have It must be infectious."

"In addition, the source of the virus can be natural, such as the Ebola virus, or it may be produced by a bioterrorism attack, or it may be in contact with wild animals, so the virus that can make the epidemic more than a thousand times worse is in our lives. On this planet."

"Let's take a look at a mathematical model of a virus spreading through the air."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng looked back at the giant screen and introduced: "This is the Western Tooth Extraction Flu in 1918. The virus will spread to all corners of the world at a very fast speed. A total of 30 million people worldwide have died from this virus. ."

Luo Sheng turned back to face the audience again: "This is a very serious problem. We should never ignore it. We can actually build a good response system. We can use all the science and technology that has been developed so far. We can use mobile phones to collect information and Post information, we also have satellite maps to see where people are and where they are moving."

"At the same time, we have also made very good progress in biology. These can greatly shorten the time for us to find pathogens, and we can develop antidote and vaccine in a short time, so we have the tools."

"We need to do a lot of research and development in vaccines and pathology. I am very happy to contribute as much as possible to this field. At the same time, I also call on technology companies, research institutions and wealthy people around the world to pay attention to this field and actively invest in this field. In this area. I currently don’t have a clear budget for how much it will cost, but I’m sure it’s quite cheap compared to the potential loss it causes.”

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng called up a statistical report.

"According to estimates by the World Bank, if we have a flu outbreak, the global economy will lose more than three trillion U.S. dollars and thousands of people will be killed and injured. Compared with just being prepared, these additional investments There is no doubt that it will bring significant benefits."

"Basic health care and R&D can promote the balanced development of global health and make our world healthier and safer. So I think this is very important and urgent, but we don’t need to panic too much. We don’t need to hoard a lot of food and avoid it. In the basement, but we have to catch up because time is limited."

"If there is any positive feedback from the outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic, it is to sound an early warning to all mankind, so that all mankind is awakened and prepared. If we can start preparations, then the next epidemic We can be ready when it comes, thank you."

Luo Sheng's speech lasted for less than ten minutes and then ended. As he walked off the stage, there was warm applause on the scene, and the staff silently moved the tin bucket he had pushed from the stage.

And Luo Sheng's appeal also attracted the attention of many people, especially those in the capital circle.

Many people secretly speculate that the world's richest man may be playing new tricks again, otherwise it is impossible to give this speech at the TED conference for no reason. What is more interesting is that this is also a huge span with Luo Sheng's usual business.

This is from the field of Internet and ICT to the field of life sciences. The cross-border is not so big. In his speech, Luo Sheng all expressed his intention to make a big splash in the field of life sciences.

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(A update today~~)