Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

“… anticipating the future? ”

Touched a beard full of chin, Perelman frowned and said, "What does this have to do with math? ”

Schultz nodded, looking confused at Albert standing off the couch, "With all due respect, it sounds more like a Hollywood concept. ”

“Of course it does!” Albert replied in an exciting tone, "Mathematically predicting the future, that's what we're doing! ”

Quiet again in the apartment.

Krugman reached for Albert with a headache, but the latter did not heed his reminder, but threw his hand away and continued to stare at Perelman, hoping to get his approval.

…

His expectations are clearly flawed.

It wasn't just Perelman, it was Schultz's face.

It's like watching a fool...

“I think you think too much. ”

A gentle cough broke the silent Schultz in the room and continued to say his thoughts.

“Predicting the future is no longer mathematical, and I don't even think it's physics, and I think it's already a philosopher's field of thought. After all, you see, there are so many uncertainties that will shape our minds, and we ourselves can be shaky a lot of the time, like if it rains today, maybe I won't be here ——"

“But the weather is predictable! A person's journey is unpredictable, but a group of people's journeys are predictable, and New York City's nearly five years of traffic data and weather forecasts support my point of view! ”

The words forcefully interrupted Schultz's words, and Albert went on to say in a firm and exciting tone, "Humans are not essentially different from the dust that hangs in the water, and most of our time we are also in motion. The difference is simply that the disturbances we suffer are driven not by minor invisible atomic collisions and position interference, but by a series of invisible neuronal tremors that translate into tasks, responsibilities, and motives! ”

“We have a lot of tools that can track human activity, like the Internet, like our mobile devices… statistics of all the data we can predict, and as long as we can analyze it, we can do more than just give them a point-blank advertisement, and we can predict the future of 10 minutes, 10 days, and beyond! ”

“Don't you think that sounds exciting? ”

The voice fell and Professor Krugman clapped his hands.

However, he seems to be the only one clapping...

Whether Perelman or Schultz, the thoughts in his heart are almost written on his face.

However, even though the idea of the Ark was similar to theirs, which he thought was a bit absurd, he suddenly remembered that the last time he was in Shanghai, Professor Krugman and himself seemed to discuss it.

The purpose of predicting the future is achieved by modelling large-scale human social behaviour and productive life through mathematical modelling.

“That sounds interesting," said the Ark with interest, "your statement reminds me of Asimov's 'psychological history’ … did you copy this theory from the Base? ”

“Not at all! I am explaining my theory from a scientific point of view... well, I admit that Asimov is a little inspirational to my theory, but I am not here to discuss the point of view in an undergraduate science fiction novel, but a serious academic issue! ”

“Well, we assume that the collective behaviour of humankind is indeed predictable, but... so what?” Schultz frowned and said, "Any behavior you do, even the observation itself, can have unpredictable effects on the results of the experiment. Not only is that pointless, but it's hard to do. ”

“Whatever! God, are we studying the wavy particle duality of light to direct photons to do something? Don't you think predicting the future is an exciting topic in itself? Even if we just prove that this is possible, our names are enough to be in history! ”

Obviously, Albert and Professor Krugman chose to come to St. Petersburg to convince Perelman to join their plan.

First of all, only scholars at the Perelman level would be able to complete their vast plan, and most importantly, Perelman is one of the more talkative types of scholarly assessment.

Even the original reason for Pongale's speculation was that when he spoke to Hamilton on his trip to the United States, he heard the latter talk about the singularity of a category of names called “cigars” and complained that the problem had bothered him for many years and started…

However, as Albert's emotions grew more and more agitated after successive rebuttals, persuasion had begun to turn into a quarrel.

Krugman tried to alert his friends, but it didn't help.

And the end result was predictable, and Perelman turned them down on the spot.

Though he didn't look at them with the same eyes as an idiot, he said in a firm tone of words that he didn't see anything interesting or think that math was used to do this boring thing.

As for Schultz, he would certainly not be interested in this left-door subject, committed to achieving higher mathematical achievement, so it would just be a courtesy, and he might consider researching it someday if he had time.

As to when the day might be, it might only be him who knows.

As for the Ark...

To be honest, he's still a little interested in this novelty of thought.

Unlike Schultz and Perelman, he favoured proactive radiation of mathematical influence into other disciplines and the use of mathematics to change other sciences.

And, as Professor Krugman said, predicting the future is itself a subject of romanticism.

Although he has little interest in economics and has no cold in social studies, is it surprising that there is no great deal of exclusion in his mind for a subject that looks like it is built on an aerial attic?

But he didn't immediately promise them either.

“I need a little time to think about it, at least until I solve Lehman's guess, and I'm not going to look into any other issues. ”

However, after hearing this, Albert's shoulders were drooped and the expression on his face had become a deep disappointment.

In his view, this phrase is probably the same as Schultz's phrase, even if it can be said to be a rejection without any euphemism...

“After resolving Lehman's guess... God, I've never heard a more euphemistic rejection! ”

Krugman's face was also full of regrets, a glance at Perelman, another glance at the ark and a sigh of sigh.

“Anyway, I'd like you to think about it. ”

Ark: “Actually, I have a question that has always been confusing. ”

Krugman: "… what's the problem? ”

Thinking about it, the Ark continues: "If the future is really predictable, is it really a good thing for us? ”

Krugman was silent for a while and said, "It's hard for me to answer you, and that's a non-academic question. Like Mr. Albert, I'm sure when he wrote Link, he didn't think his theory would be taken by Silicon Valley internet giants and advertisers to squeeze consumers' wallets...”

Upon hearing this, Alberton was unhappy and shouted.

“Hey, don't say that, okay? Big data isn't just for advertising! We have benefited from this technology on various issues such as counter-terrorism, health care, urban planning, etc. Why do you keep doing this? ”

Ignoring Albert's call, Professor Krugman continued.

“... one day he suddenly came to me and said he was going to turn the theory in the book" The Explosion "into reality. My first reaction was that this guy definitely wasn't going to do anything good, but I finally accepted his invitation. ”

Ark: “Why? ”

“Because both theoretical and applied science, it is not the scholars who should characterize whether a technology is evil or not. Is fission technology evil? Standing at this point in 1945, perhaps most people would think so, but in retrospect today, perhaps it is precisely because of the possession of such superweapons that our world will be able to maintain peace in extreme circumstances where a super-Power is on the verge of collapse, something that was not conceivable until half a century ago. ”

“So I think we're just talking about an academic issue, and we're just looking at theoretical predictions of the future, not what we're going to do with it. ”

“Our civilization naturally chooses whether to use this technology or even to characterize it. ”

After listening to this remark, looking at Professor Krugman's sincere gaze, the ark nodded softly after a moment of silence.

“I see what you mean. ”

“We'll talk about this later when we get a chance. ”

Krugman nodded, and Albert, sitting next to him, gave a helpless look, shrugging his shoulders and saying, “I really hope there's a chance, and I hope I can wait until that day. ”

Even if he studied physics, he heard about the difficulties of Lehman's assumptions.

Other mathematical assumptions are difficult, but at least the way to solve them can be seen.

And Lehman guessed, like a lonely mountain, standing there alone.

Nobody knows, it will stand for centuries...

He wasn't there at the time, it was all a problem.