Chapter 189: Prelude to the Stark Industries
Stark Industries, after Howard Stark Sr. first held this world-renowned industrial fair outside New York in the thirties of the last century, Stark Group has positioned this industrial fair as a regular project of the company. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It is held every four years, and each time in New York. It has been more than 70 years since the thirties.
It can be said that this has become the corporate culture of Stark Industries, and it is a habit that flows in the blood of this company.
In this world, an expo like the World Expo or the BMW Industrial Exhibition cannot be compared to the Stark Messe in terms of scale and impact.
In the thirties of the last century, Howard held his first industrial fair and launched a cross-era advanced car. That was the first hovering car.
It can be said that this is the prototype of Tony's production of hovering cars, but the difference is that Tony's car is a true anti-gravity car, relying on the earth's magnetic field to levitate and even fly.
The old Howard's car made a lot of use of the concept of ground effect aircraft at that time when it was designed, and it did not really solve the energy problem, so it can only be regarded as a semi-finished product.
But even so, Howard's ideas and concepts at the time have shocked the world.
More than 70 years later, Stark Industries has evolved from a business show that simply showcased Stark Industries' latest inventions and company development plans to a large-scale expo that truly extends its influence to the world.
This is related to the fact that Tony took over the development of Stark Industries in the past two decades after coming to power, and Tony Stark has a more far-sighted vision than his father, and prefers to express himself in the spotlight more.
You can understand this idea as smelly beauty, but it's not just smelly beauty.
In the past 20 years of leadership, Tony has extended the tentacles of Stark Group to more directions, including environmental protection, energy, charity, information technology and supercomputers, artificial intelligence, industrial integration and so on.
Stark Corporation is no longer the company that made its fortune entirely on weapons.
If the World Expo is a stage for countries around the world to use this exhibition to express their national business cards and national images, then Stark Industries is a muscle show that affects countries around the world.
After more than 70 years of development, more than 170 countries now participate in this industrial event. As many as 17,000 companies participated in the exhibition. The month-long exhibition will bring tens of millions of visitors and visitors.
And last year, the amount of deal intent reached in a month at Stark Messe was $1.1 trillion.
Every four years, each round of Stark Industries shows the possibilities and plans for global industrial development in the next four years. What you see here is more than just a bunch of cold machines.
A truly visionary can see what is contained in machines that are either breathtakingly large or amazingly ingenious, that civilization and technology will change human society and the future!
Here you can see the world's most advanced industrial production equipment, as well as the most thought-provoking ideas.
This is a place to show the industrial strength of various countries, and no matter what kind of national business card is played at the World Expo, it is only a matter of face.
And in this industrial fair, everything that is shown is the real inside of a country.
Industry and machines, a formidable force.
Next to the highway from New York to the Atlantic Ocean, Stark Industrial Expo Park has been expanded and renovated several times over the past seven decades, and now it is a large and complete area. The most marginal rest stop has even been able to connect the two cities.
The value of the land here alone is now too large to count. For the mayors of New York City and Atlantic City, hosting every Stark Messe is the most important thing in their tenure.
Here, the United States fully embodies the concept that capital is king and interests are paramount. Stark Industries isn't just a place for the U.S. to flex its industrial muscles, it's also a quadrennial event for two cities, New York and Atlantic City, where one expo can bring amazing revenue.
And this year's industrial fair is not destined to be quiet, because before Tony announced the new energy plan, and at the same time put on the agenda the lunar development plan.
Even the United Nations Lunar Management of the United Nations (UNF) and Germany, which is composed of the five permanent members of the United Nations and Germany, has been signed and approved by the prime ministers, secretaries of state and presidents of six countries.
This is an era of turbulence, and all countries and everyone can feel this surging torrent coming towards traditional human society with an unrivaled momentum.
No one wants to be left behind in this era, whether it is the P5 of the United Nations, or the new European Commonwealth formed by the division of the European Union by Britain, France and Germany. Or the new Eastern European Union, led by Latvia and organized by the CIS.
The political landscape of the entire planet began to fluctuate. The new Stark Messe has a record number of countries and manufacturers attending.
In China alone, the number of exhibitors led by China's Minister of Industry is close to 3,700, a record high. The most important of these manufacturers is China Nuclear Power Corporation, and the news that the Suiren-1 controlled nuclear fusion was successfully ignited and successfully operated within the safety threshold for 72 hours shocked the world.
Other countries that don't want to be confined to Stark Industries may consider further research into controlled nuclear fusion with China.
Although China's controlled nuclear fusion is still the way of traditional nuclear power plants in terms of portability and energy conversion ratio, it is not comparable to the Ark reactor that is only the size of a palm, and it is unlikely to be installed on a spacecraft, but at least in terms of industrial production and civilian use, it is another way out.
Li Jie and Tony also know what this Stark Messe means. Perhaps this will be the beginning of a new era.
As for the idea of this new era, Li Jie and Tony had the following conversation a long time ago.
Tony: "For the first time in this era, humanity will truly enter the era of the universe, I firmly believe it. ”
Li Jie: "Is it good or bad?"
Tony: "What?"
Li Jie: "After human beings entered the universe and stepped into the era of interstellar colonization, are human beings still the human beings we know? Just like the farmer of the Age of Discovery, when he embarked on the fleet to conquer the New World, he was destined to be accompanied by muskets and blood, and those aborigines were slaughtered in a cruel way. ”
Li Jie: "Since then, is this farmer still the same farmer as before?"
Tony: "What are you trying to express?"
Li Jie: "Compared to our explosive growth of technology, our social science progress is too slow. It's like the mind can't keep up with the body. Our bodies are getting stronger, but our minds are still stiff. ”
Tony: "So, you have an idea?!"
Li Jie: "Yes, I have an idea. With the formation of Starfleet, mankind will one day step out of the solar system. The difference between the present and the Age of Discovery is that we can speculate about things, although not necessarily true. But we can at least do it in advance. ”
Tony: "For example?"
Li Jie: "For example, the study of cosmic sociology and cosmic philosophy. ”
Tony smiled, "I thought you didn't have much interest in scientific theories, especially social science theory stuff. ”
Li Jie laughed a little louder than Tony: "Yes, I really don't have this interest in many times. But if we want to build a new era, then we have to do something. Philosophy and sociology may not be useful to ordinary people for a lifetime, but they are something that every politician and leader must learn. They need to find a leadership strategy that fits. ”
"And in politics, we need to have our own people. Prepare for the arrival of the Age of the Universe, and then sweep away the stale and filthy things that are now on the table! There will be a new order in the New Era. ”
Tony's eyes lit up: "Is it like my ancestors came to the New World from Europe, founded the United States, and finally swept away the old school in Europe?"
Li Jie laughed: "Maybe it's a little more thorough, you said my plan is crazy." Why can't we be a little crazier. I feel good to be a world-changing maniac!"
Tony also laughed: "For the madman who changed the world, I toast you!"
Li Jie: "For this dull and crazy world!"