Chapter 1229: The World's First Computer Strategy Game

Liu Lang is a miracle in human biology, but the topic of discussion he participated in is not biology, he himself is just a master's degree in engineering, this kind of education can not participate in this level of seminars at all, besides, he crossed over to the entertainment industry halfway, and has no achievements in engineering, but his contribution to the computer industry is very huge, four years ago, the book "Digital Survival" has become a recognized "bible" in today's computer industry If you are an IT person but have not read this book, then you should not say that you are engaged in computers, it is too embarrassing.

And last year Liu Lang had a book called "Out of Control" published, this book has been published and has caused heated discussions, "Digital Survival" describes a human society built by computers and networks, this society will inevitably happen, and human beings must be ready to meet it, and "Out of Control" The book goes a step further and illustrates the problems that will arise in a deeply digital society that will not go unnoticed at first, but will one day lose human control over time, leading humanity in an unknown direction, good or bad.

Liu Lang has become a recognized "godfather" in the computer industry with the publication of two books, not because his ideas are unparalleled, but because many of the ideas and products mentioned in his books have had a huge impact on this era.

Of course, Liu Lang did not explicitly say what a browser was in the book, he just said that humans can see information instantly through the Internet, and Clark obviously got inspiration from this sentence and then created a browser.

Netscape is not the only company that has been changed by Liu Lang, he is just one of them, and there are many companies that have new ideas because of Liu Lang's book, so they really have a sense of worship for Liu Lang, not to say that they bow down, but to have a dialogue with him and burst out new thinking, so Liu Lang's arrival immediately caused heated discussions.

Liu Lang also has a keynote speech, which he proposed himself, entitled "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Beings", this kind of topic is naturally easy for Liu Lang, and there is no need to prepare at all, it is completely in his heart.

The conference has several sub-venues, Liu Lang participated in the semiconductor computer industry, Liu Lang looked around, and found a lot of acquaintances, Bill Gates, Jobs, Gordon Moore, the proposer of Moore's theorem, and Jim Moore, the chairman of Netscape who had just met. Clark was also a participant, and there was another person who caught Liu Lang's attention, a young man of about thirty years old, with very short hair, even a little bald, wearing a suit, and he was very shrewd at first glance, Liu Lang knew him, it was Bezos, the president of Amazon, the world's largest Internet company, twenty years later, but he didn't have a hair at that time, he was completely bald, and now he still has a few hairs, but Liu Lang also knows him with hair.

Amazon was founded in 95 years, the business is online e-commerce, initially sold books, with the continuous growth began to get involved in a variety of products, and then extended its tentacles to cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, more than 20 years later Amazon has been one of the world's most high-tech companies, no less than Google, Facebook, and Bezos himself has become known as the world's richest man, worth more than 100 billion US dollars.

At the beginning of the meeting, the moderator delivered a speech on the rostrum, introducing key guests, including Wan An, Bill Gates, the presidents of IBM and Apple, but did not say the name of Jobs, the "Joe Gang Leader" Now is the time for despair, not only the president of Apple has been mixed, but also has been cleared out of the company he founded, as for the fact that Apple is now also in decline, the market share of personal computers is only 5 percent, and if it continues to develop like this, I am afraid that we will not be able to wait for Jobs to return, besides, what can Jobs do? This life is in Liu Lang's hands, and the Apple mobile phone may not be the most famous smart phone in the future.

Liu Lang is also one of the important guests, when the host said the name Jimmy Liu, everyone at the scene immediately let out an exclamation, and then burst into warm applause, obviously Liu Lang's reputation is much higher than others.

Liu Lang also stood up and waved his hand around.

The moderator made an opening remarks, which was to explain the development of the computer industry in the world today, and then to look forward to the future, which quoted a lot of content from "Digital Survival".

After the opening remarks, several heavyweight guests appeared, first of all, Wan An, the chairman of VIE Company, who as one of the most important guests brought one of VIE Company's latest products, a computer game called "Civilization", yes, this is the world's first strategy with a computer as a terminal***.

Wanan is over 60 years old this year, but energetic, good health, now the performance of VIE company is soaring, has become the United States and even the world's largest computer company, the annual shipment of personal computers alone reached 200,000 units, the market share of more than 40 percent, VIE company market value also exceeded 10 billion US dollars, becoming one of the highest NASDAQ market value companies, his personal wealth last year was as high as 1.5 billion US dollars, family wealth is more than 3 billion US dollars, no less than Rockefeller, An established company like DuPont.

Wan An demonstrated the game on the rostrum in high spirits, and the picture of the game was projected onto a huge LED display in the back.

In this era, LED display is still a new type of product, generally only red, yellow and blue three colors, but this display can already present twelve colors, which is definitely the best optical product at the moment.

"Entertainment is the most common demand of human beings, and our VIE company is moving computer informatization closer to entertainment, creating a new way of entertainment, allowing people to have a new game experience, and this game called "Civilization" is an entertainment method that caters to the times, which can make people feel an unprecedented pleasure .........!"

Wan An was talking as a staff member displayed the game on the LED display.

Civilization is a game that leads primitive humans to evolve and eventually achieve modernization, from the Stone Age against wild beasts to the battle between civilization and other forces, and the player's participation is very high.

There are four main civilizations in the game, the Chinese farming civilization, the Greek maritime civilization, Roman scientific and technological civilization and Egyptian mysterious civilization, each civilization has its own characteristics, players can choose at will, and after choosing, it will evolve in accordance with different civilization methods, of course, as a game released in the West, Greek maritime civilization and Roman scientific and technological civilization are the protagonists, and the other two civilizations are weaker, but they are on the same path, and all civilizations can become powerful when they develop to the extreme, for example, the Greek maritime civilization is developing to the sea, and there will be steel giants in the later period, and the Roman scientific and technological civilization is biased towards mathematics. The development of the two disciplines of physics is the most advantageous civilization