Chapter 253: What the Future Looks Like

After John Ex arranged it, John suddenly had a whim, since he was going to the Thomas Watson Research Center, why not call some people to participate together, the future is the world of computers, the Internet, and artificial intelligence, why not gather the Morgan family's scientific and technological talents to enter the future together while everyone is groping.

Morgan's family has a lot of laboratories, studying what flies in the sky, runs on the ground, swims in the water, can be seen, and what is not seen, John wants to find more scientific and technological talents, this kind of thing is too simple, Dani can solve it with a few phone calls.

Of course, it is impossible for Dani to call everyone, but she has called some laboratories that have made achievements in software, systems, and networks to join, one of which is Bell Laboratories under the name of Lucent, and the other is the Parker Research Center under the name of Xerox. If there is a more awesome laboratory in the world than IBM Labs, it is these two.

The Thomas Watson Laboratory, Bell Laboratory, and Parker Research Center are known as the three major high-tech laboratories in the United States.

With Bell Labs and Parker Research Center on board, John needed a lot more scientific and technological talents, and when he brought Dani and John Ex to Thomas Watson Labs, he saw a group of people sitting in the conference room, and when they saw him coming, they stopped the discussion, and all stood up and focused their eyes on him.

"Everybody sits. ”

John pressed his hand and introduced himself as he watched everyone with a smile on his face. "I'm JK Morgan, you can call me JK, you can call me boss, whatever you want, but don't call Mr. Morgan Jr., there are too many Morgan Morgans in the Morgan family. ”

"Hehe......"

Everyone smiled at John's words, and the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became lighter.

"Everyone knows why they were called this time. John waited for the others to laugh and continued. "People may scoff at this, thinking that a small banking system is just a bit too fussful. ”

Hearing John's words, many people in the conference room nodded involuntarily, and John looked at these people and smiled.

"I know it's a bit of a fuss to bring the banking system into this room, because there are 73 of the top 100 computer experts in the United States. ”

John's words are not polite, nor exaggerated, but fact, not to mention the casual dress of these people in this room, some in T-shirts, some in casual shirts, some in sandals, and some may not even have shaved their beards in months. But if you close your eyes and point to one with your hand, it's a mountain in the computer field, and some of them are still founding figures. Even if you have just graduated or are still in the internship period, it is the big name of the future generations in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, neural networks, and other projects, and the future generations are very awesome Google, Twitter, Facebook...... And so on, in a series of technology companies, you can see these people at any time.

John said as he pulled out his chair and stood up, slowly walking around the conference table.

"Guys, I don't know if you've ever met someone who said something like this in front of you: I want to change the world. John looked around the conference room and saw that everyone had different expressions, and continued.

"I want to change the world," it sounds powerful, but only a few people can actually make it happen.

Edison invented the electric light and brought light to thousands of homes. Bell invented the telephone to allow people to connect with each other, even when they were thousands of miles apart. The Wright brothers invented airplanes and made traveling the world a reality......

And these people who change the world, they don't actually want to change the world at all, they just want to change people's lives, but when they change people's lives, they unconsciously change the world.

And today I have been wondering if we can use computers and the Internet to change people's lives again, just like the people who changed the world in the last century, and make people's lives more convenient, faster and safer?"

John looked at the crowd and continued.

"I'm a big fan of the future, and I want to share with you what I can think of.

In the future, people don't need to go to the store to shop, just turn on the computer at home to buy goods from all over the world, of course, if you want to go out and go shopping, that's okay, you just need to go to the garage to get in the car and fasten your seatbelt, and then tell the car where you want to go, the car can take you to where you want to go on autopilot, it is worth mentioning that in the future, we will no longer have to take a driver's license. ”

"Haha. ”

The crowd laughed when they heard John's words.

John waited until everyone had finished laughing and continued.

"When you arrive at the place, whether you are shopping, dining, or doing beauty, you don't have to worry about forgetting to bring your wallet, because in the future, people don't need a wallet at all, they only need to brush their faces to pay, and of course they have to deal with the problem of twins, otherwise it will be embarrassing. ”

"Haha. ”

The crowd laughed again at John's words, and John pressed his hand to stop laughing before continuing.

"In the future, the phone will not only be a tool for making calls, but it will also be able to surf the Internet, watch movies, listen to music, play games, shop, shoot videos, and work on documents...... Of course, the call is still its most basic function, but at that time we don't have to talk into the microphone, we can communicate face-to-face with the person on the phone, you can see him, he can see you.

In the future, everyone will have an assistant, and of course I'm talking about AI assistants, not people. This artificial intelligence assistant can help me solve all the problems in life, when we get up in the morning, it can tell us the weather conditions of the day, it can automatically clean the room, help me plan the food match for the day according to my physical condition, after breakfast, it can drive a car to take us to the company, it can help us book air tickets and hotels on business trips, and it can help us open the door when we get home. Adjust the indoor temperature, there is no food in the refrigerator, it can contact the supermarket to replenish our stock, it can also monitor our body 24 hours a day, once there is a problem, it can contact the hospital as soon as possible, it can also help me file taxes, help us pay phone bills, electricity bills, gas bills, broadband bills, ....... ”

For the first time, John told the world he saw in the future, and for the first time he had shared his secrets openly with others, without fear that others would think he was talking nonsense or arouse suspicion from those who cared about it.

"Of course, this is the future I can think of, maybe my imagination is limited, and I am not as brainy as you. ”

John said, gesturing to a middle-aged man in the crowd wearing black-rimmed glasses and a white casual shirt. "Mr. Taylor, you fantasize about the future, too. ”

The middle-aged man, whom John had called Mr. Taylor, stood up, straightened his white shirt, and looked at John. "Yes boss! I've always been curious about the future, but it's not as rich and real as you think. ”

Hearing his words, everyone nodded approvingly, the future that John described to them today was indeed clear and real, the kind that should be achieved with hard work, and it was not so far-fetched fantasy.

John pressed his hand to sit him down, looked at him with a smile, and said. "My last AI assistant was inspired by your video, and I've just extended it. ”

It's hard to imagine that this man led the scientists at the Parker Research Center to propose an artificial intelligence assistant in 1979 and used it in Xerox advertising, knowing that the future Microsoft's artificial intelligence assistant Cortana will not appear until 2014, Apple's Siri will be in 2016, and Samsung's Bixby will be in 2017, and his ideas are nearly 40 years ahead of these tech giants.

What's even more terrifying is that when the PC was just an idea in Stephen Watts' mind, he already had one in his lab, even the secretary, and when Stephen Watts and Steve Jobs' Apple 2 computers were introduced, these computers were far more powerful than the Apple 2 computers.

He is Bob Taylor, the head of the Parker Research Center and known as one of the fathers of the Internet.