Chapter 164: New Book "Out of Control"
Buick cars cost 10,000 US dollars per person, this price is mid-range in the United States, ordinary new cars can be bought for five or six thousand yuan, and the sellers of Buick are on the spot, counting the number of people on the spot, and Liu Lang will sign a check when the number of people comes out, if you don't want a car, then a check per person, you can exchange it at any time.
Don't look at Liu Lang's loss of more than one million, but this marketing plan is very successful, and the follow-up value is much more than this million.
Liu Lang and Sheng Tang once again became the focus of entertainment in the United States, this was in the nineties, if it was twenty years later, Liu Lang would have reached the first place on the hot search list.
The day after Liu Lang finished recording the program, Professor Wilson, a professor at Harvard University and a famous American economist, came to Los Angeles with his right-hand man Louis Wang, and met Liu Lang in a stylish room of Shengtang Company.
Saint Don's office near Fifth Avenue was named the No. 1 most comfortable office space in the nation by American Fashion magazine last year.
The average company is composed of many departments, and there is little contact between each department, even in an office building, many people do not know each other, but Shengtang Company is different, there is a huge public space, this space has KFC, water bar and other food sales points, and the design of this space is very unique, not like a company at all, but very much like a playground.
The chairs are wooden, very much like old tree stumps, and many chairs have been changed into swings, which are very comfortable, and some areas have been transformed into theme parks, large wooden transformers are placed there, and they will be replaced in a few days, and many Marvel hero images have also been invited, and these images are completely different from those in Marvel Comics, they are all designed by Liu Lang according to the image twenty years later, which is very futuristic.
Even the company has set up an independent department, called the public area design department, which is responsible for the design of different styles of large public spaces, and new elements are added every once in a while.
The design style of the Saint Don Company is the first in the United States, and even the Disney Company, which is known for its innocence, cannot be compared, and now many companies have begun to imitate the design style of the Saint Towns Company.
Professor Wilson and Liu Lang sat on either side of an old wooden pier "wrapped in pulp", on which a Go board was drawn, and if Liu Lang sat in front of him in a robe, it would be a scene of an ancient idler playing against a gentleman.
This area is a lounge specially designed by Shengtang Company for Chinese people, and people usually play Go here.
"Jimmy, you're in the limelight now, and you're throwing out more than a million at once, good guy, you're really rich!"
Professor Wilson took a sip of tea, a rich aroma permeated his body, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly took two more sips.
"Professor, did you come to me again this time?"
"Smart, that's right, I'm just for this, now your "Digital Survival" has a best-selling trend, more than 80,000 copies have been sold since the beginning of this year, especially in the last three months, a total of 50,000 copies have been sold, and readers have responded very well, it seems that it won't be long before this book will be as popular as "The Third Industrial Wave" in the United States, and it's been three years since you stayed in China for so long, and you wrote a lot of songs and scripts, didn't you write a book?"
Professor Wilson knew Liu Lang's ability, he stayed in China for three years, and he wrote a few songs and a few scripts in three years? Wilson didn't believe it, he felt that Liu Lang must have written a lot of good things for such a long time, and this guy wrote all the best-selling books, and after publication, he gained fame and fortune.
"Professor, you still know me, yes, I have written a lot of things, and there is a book that I personally think is very good, it is a supplement to the book "Digital Survival", you can publish!"
Liu Lang replied with a smile.
"Haha, I knew I knew, hurry up and take it out and let me see the manuscript. ”
Professor Wilson laughed, Liu Lang's previous two books had already made him millions of dollars, and it seemed that he was going to "collect money" again.
Liu Lang's book in Fucheng is called "Out of Control", and its full title is "Out of Control: A New Biology of Machines, Society, and Economy."
The author of this book, Kelly, is a famous writer in the United States, especially for computers with a sensitivity beyond ordinary people, in the previous life, Kelly wrote this book in 95 years, just look at the name, the book explores how human society and human beings themselves should develop in the case of powerful computers, this book has a strong prophetic nature, very famous, and later appeared "Hacker Empire" and other movies are inspired by this book, and the accuracy of the book's predictions of the future has gradually been shown over time, and many IT "bigwigs" are very highly regarded by this book, which is a masterpiece in addition to "Digital Survival".
The book "Digital Survival" is mainly about the inevitable entry of human society into the Internet era, and everyone's life is inseparable from the Internet, while the book "Out of Control" is about the negative impact of machines on human beings.
This negative impact is not an accident such as a car accident, but an omnipresent impact that is enough to change the process of human development, just like human beings who are sick and need to take medicine, but no matter how good the efficacy of the drug is to the human body, there are side effects, but the positive effect of the drug is greater than the negative effect, but when the negative effect is greater than the positive effect, what should human beings do?
For example, as humans become more and more dependent on computers, computers are becoming more and more powerful, powerful enough to understand what humans mean and can do things according to human thoughts, which is of course a good thing, but when computers are always intelligent enough, will they replace humans?
That's what Cameron's Terminator expressed, the Americans were confident that they had mastered Skynet that could stop any strategic weapons, but they didn't expect that Skynet already had self-awareness, and the moment Skynet was activated, the United States' nuclear weapons were launched, and then the world was finished, and "Out of Control" is about this possibility.
The original version of "Out of Control" has more than 500,000 words, Liu Lang didn't write so much, only 100,000 words, but Liu Lang's book is more direct to the fundamentals, much more refined than the original, and more importantly, Liu Lang has personally experienced that era, he knows that more than 20 years later, the human community is more concerned about things, these are not things that Kelly can do, if Kelly is a prophecy, then Liu Lang is an assertion.