Chapter 4: A Message from the Future
The first thought that came to Su Mu's head was that he had heard a spoof radio program, and it was impossible to listen to the 2018 radio program in 1984, which is a truth that all normal people understand.
He doesn't know what Musk or SpaceX, but the rocket knows that it is still in the "Star Wars" program, whether it is the United States or the Soviet Union, the two sides have been engaged in an arms race for many years, trying to compete for outer space, the Challenger space shuttle has lifted off again and again, and even the moon has been stepped on by Armstrong, which is not surprising.
There are Chinese people with any accent here in Chinatown, but they can rarely hear such a clear pronunciation, the promotion of Mandarin on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, but there is no promotion in the United States, Cantonese is the mainstream language of Chinatown, the Su family settled in Shanghai when their ancestors came to the United States to gradually learn Mandarin.
I think it's quite interesting, while taking out the textbook from the schoolbag, while continuing to listen to the program, Chinese people will always be bullied when they go out to do business, in the eyes of many people, reading is the only way out, whose child is admitted to medical school, or lawyers, accountants and other jobs that represent the middle class, that is to call relatives and friends to have a good time.
Su Mu is very conscious in learning, which is related to the tireless education of Old Man Su from childhood to adulthood, until now, his ideal is to be a lawyer, or engage in the financial industry, anyway, it is a very lucrative job, and he also has a status in society.
"It's really bragging, how come I didn't know that there is a billionaire named Musk who is worth $20 billion?" Su Mu said with a smile to himself, holding an eleventh-grade history textbook in his hand, he is only in the ninth grade, the learning intensity of American middle schools is not large, Chinese students learn faster with their hearts, and ordinary students are not under much pressure, but if they want to get into a good university in the future, they must work harder.
As an interesting program, Su Mu listened to the host named Dabin, "fantasizing" about the scenes of the future world, cars using electricity as an energy source, trying to land people on Mars, etc., which sounded quite interesting.
At this time, the Chinese teenager who was hit by great luck but didn't know about it was attracted by the host's words, looked at the radio with a curious look, and only heard the host say: "Recently, some media made a map of Musk's life journey, which is so strong that it is not wanted, from the picture, we can learn about Musk's life trajectory since he was born, he finished reading books in the library at the age of eight, and completed the basic course for six months in three days, and he has been a prodigy since he was a child."
At the age of twelve, he made an online game and sold it for five hundred dollars, in 1992 he and his brother founded a Zip2 company to write code, in 1999 they sold it for two two million dollars, in 2000 they acquired PayPal Inc., which uses email to transfer money online, just like Alipay, and finally sold it for 250 million dollars!
The PayPal that Westerners like to use is actually similar to Alipay, but there is a difference, which can represent personal identity through email and transfer money from one company to another......"
Su Mu was stunned when he heard this, he had never touched the mouse since he was a child, and the number of times he saw the computer was only a handful, but the children of this era already knew what the computer was, and they also knew the general working principle, and smiled and thought that this guy's imagination was really good, and he fantasized about the process of transferring money with the computer in his head, which was quite interesting, at least very convenient.
But it's just interesting, no matter how deep it is, he can't imagine it with his current vision, and now computers have not begun to be popularized, and people are still in the fantasy stage of the future.
Thomas Edison, the American inventor, once said, "One percent of genius is inspiration, and ninety-nine percent is sweat." But that one percent of inspiration is the most important, even more important than the ninety-nine percent of sweat", the same is true for business entrepreneurship, especially in the Internet era where inspiration is paramount, countless successful people, including Steve Jobs, Gates and others, rose at first because of a small idea.
Su Mu didn't know what he had heard now, but one day he would know that in the face of this great gift obtained by chance, this guy didn't care at the moment, but was studying seriously......
The room was small, and there were cockroaches crawling out of the rotten wooden door frame, Su Mu's father had sprayed insecticide last time, and it didn't seem to be very effective.
Compared with many homeless people today, in fact, Su Mu is already full of contentment, the fathers are not not not working hard, but unfortunately they pay a lot, but they get very little, the vast majority of Chinese are like this, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work in the city, with a salary barely enough for daily expenses, if anyone is sick, it will definitely be a catastrophe.
The Su family also does not have much savings, and it is even difficult for Su Mu to go to the most ordinary private middle school, let alone a university with more expensive tuition.
Since from the current point of view, reading is the only way out, he is very serious when he studies, the radio next to him still makes a sound, and he only listens to it when he hears interesting content, when he learns from the host, Jobs has paid attention to the Tesla electric car company founded by Musk, Apple's market value is as high as 800 billion US dollars, and it is possible to enter the electric vehicle manufacturing industry in the future, Su Mu smiled again, thinking that this guy is very funny, and his imagination is too powerful.
He knew that Apple, which had just been established as a new company specializing in the sale of personal computers, and that the computer that Du Zhong's family had just bought was a commodity produced by this company, and that there was no company in the world with a market value of more than $800 billion, not even the overlord of the computer industry, IBM, which was not so high, let alone Apple, which had a total market value of just over $1 billion.
Su Mu knew that selling computers was very profitable, after all, one was thousands of dollars, but he couldn't imagine how many computers he had to sell in order for Apple to achieve such a high market value, so he concluded that this was a very bragging guy, and he had to admire the other party's imagination, and it sounded like it was real.
At this time, he heard a host named Dabin change the topic and say: "I just recently bought an iphoneX mobile phone released by Apple last year, and I originally thought that this 10th anniversary version of the iphone was not very easy to use, but when I started, I was instantly amazed by it, whether it is face recognition technology, or high-definition display, it makes me feel comfortable."
5.8-inch bezel-less screen, 2436x1125 pixel resolution, six-core processor, running memory up to 3G, front and rear camera image quality is quite good, but I have recently begun to miss the old phone, Nokia, which brought us many classic flip covers, side slide phones, has recently been reborn and released a mobile phone again......"
At this moment, Su Mu's head was empty, because he couldn't imagine what kind of mobile phone this was, and he felt more and more that this guy was blowing unreliable, so he rotated the button and adjusted the table......