The straight-line distance from Los Angeles to Albuquerque is about 600 miles, and the average small airliner flies the entire journey, even if you add the take-off and landing time, it takes up to two hours. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info but it's just enough time to watch a movie, but it's enough for people in business class to talk about a lot of topics.

"Our two schools are next to each other, so we became good friends......

"He's always dreaming these days, thinking back to the days before he moved. His dad isn't busy with work, so please ask me to ......"

It was easy to explain her and Flynn's counterparts, and Alice immediately learned the reason for the elder Bush's intermittent convulsions.

Hawkers, you know, this is a dignified Vice President, even if there is a secret service sitting in the back cabin, how can there be a reason to travel exclusively by civil airliner? Even if the 911 incident has not yet occurred and the Gulf War has not broken out, as a national government and the second-in-command, he has not done so.

But......

If it is a private jet failure, and it is too late to transfer another one, it will be another matter~

These two topics ended in an instant, and Alice certainly didn't care what Bush Sr. was busy with, and what Bush Sr. really cared about was, of course, not about boys and girls. Everyone knows that time is limited, so after learning a little about some inconsequential trivia, the drama meat is finally here.

"I still know a little bit about the IT industry, but when Gates was promoting, it caused a storm in Las Vegas. However, it's really unexpected, this system has been researched by you, tsk......"

As he spoke, he looked at Alice deeply: "Then kid, why did you suddenly come up with the idea of studying the field of Internet hardware?" As far as I know, before your Cisco system, the entire IT industry did not study it, which was Lucent, AT&T, and those telecom operators laying copper shaft cables. Can you tell us what you think? ”

The so-called how to think, this is asking yourself, what you think about the industry. The so-called successful old man and big man like to use this kind of language game to tap each other's potential when facing newcomers and rookies, and Alice is very familiar with these routines.

"yes, those companies have been laying infrastructure here and there since a few years ago."

Alice laughed, "So I'm just going with the form." These operators are just laying the groundwork, but they don't care about how computers are connected to the network, and how to interconnect efficiently. I just seized on this opportunity, after all, IBM also launched a small personal computer a few years ago, according to Moore's Law, in a few years, companies all over the United States and the world should popularize computers in large numbers, this is a very large potential market. ”

"Hey, Moore's Law, you even know that?"

As the conversation progressed, Bush Sr. became more and more satisfied with Alice's performance: "Then tell me, if the whole United States, and even the world, were full of Internet, and almost every business would use computers to work, what would this society look like?" ”

This is a question that Alice can ponder carefully.

In the fleeting moments of time, she looked at the US president, who followed Reagan, and is now vice president, the father of George W. Bush.

There is no doubt that the U.S. Information Highway Act was only introduced in 1992, and the National Information Infrastructure Strategy only appeared in late 1993. Even the beginning of this whole concept can be traced back to the State of the Union address delivered by George H.W. Bush in February '92.

Yes, Bush Sr. was the old man who suddenly made his plane in front of him, so he had to rashly board an ordinary civil airliner with the dignity of vice president.

Obviously, the fact that the bill was proposed at that time does not mean that a person, as an individual, has only "recently" thought about the relevant events, which is of course wrong. Otherwise, throughout the 80s, the network infrastructure operations led by several major telecom operators such as AT&T were not based on strategic vision?

"The information age is inevitable."

Throwing a proper noun out first so that the listener's eyes lit up, Alice knew, and of course she knew, what a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity it was.

Even if you don't mention the presidential election in '88, Bush Sr. is now the dignified vice president of the United States!

"In fact, since the birth of the computer, this era has begun to brew, if you have a careful look at it, you will find that from the 50s to the advanced economic development speed is a lot, and how many of them are based on computers."

Seeing the elder Bush nodding calmly, Alice secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said more confidently: "Therefore, in the next 20 years, and even in the future, the large-scale industrial production of the past artificial assembly line will gradually deviate from the mainstream, the tertiary industry, that is, the service industry, will increase significantly, and the information intangible industry will become a key resource."

"So, those who are strong but uneducated, or less educated, will definitely face unemployment. And the countries that have information and knowledge will be rich countries, and such rich countries will part ways with the countries that are information-poor and backward. ”

"In fact, with the current situation of large-scale network construction, little by little, when the Internet is really built on a global scale...... Think about it, what kind of efficiency is it that you send out a business invitation letter in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and receive a message in a fashion store on the Champs-Élysées in Paris? ”

Seeing that Bush Sr.'s eyes brightened, Alice snickered, it was great to plagiarize Gates's idea of "The Road Ahead" herself!

"The model of national sovereignty and the closed state will no longer exist, information integration will gradually make the traditional concept of national borders between countries gradually indifferent, and the earth will eventually become a village!"

Having already elaborated on the future prospects as much as possible, without going into too much detail about the situation, Alice took a deep breath, said this, and directly concluded: "That's what I think, what do you think?" ”

Bush Sr. was also shocked by this remark, after all, he is different from Alice, even if he has a vision as high as the vice president, after all, he is just a "native" in 1986. Even Gates's "The Road to the Future" is a book to make people digest it slowly, not to mention that it was in 1996.

When Bush Sr. was ten years ahead of schedule and was instilled with such a bunch of things in one breath by Alice in the form of a dialogue, how could he not be dumbfounded?

"It's amazing and daring to imagine!"

So, after half a minute of silence, he said in a surprised voice: "But it makes sense, but Alice, did you really come up with all this yourself?" ”

It's normal to be suspicious, Alice shrugged her shoulders and said, "It's easy to prove it, as long as you send a 007 to San Jose or Redmond to confirm it." ”

It makes sense, no matter how old Alice is, if she can really rely on those two patents to buy a stake and establish a company, it is reasonable to be able to say such profound words.

Bush Sr. pondered for a moment and sighed: "A few hours ago, when I knew that my plane was out of order, I thought it was really bad luck today. But now it seems that it was all my lucky day. ”

"Oops~ The table said so~ I'll be embarrassed~"

"So Alice, since you're now the chairman of Cisco Systems......"

"Reputation! I'm not an adult! ”

"Yes, yes, Chairman Emeritus, hehe. How about introducing me to your company's products? I've also heard about the kind of product called routers, and a lot of companies in New York are using your products, and my kids in Texas have mentioned it to me, so I guess the West Coast, especially California, is definitely your main market. ”

At this point, the elder Bush was sitting entirely on his side, facing the aisle. He crossed his hands and ten fingers on his knees, and made a gesture of kindness as an elder: "But I think you shouldn't miss a big order from Washington, right?" ”

Alice took a slow, deep breath.

Well, that's exactly what it's about.

"You mean, you're planning to get the major government agencies to buy my products!?"

Seeing the girl's surprised look, Bush Sr. smiled lightly, sat up, but waved his hand: "I don't have this kind of direct power, but it's okay to make a suggestion." As long as your product is really good, I believe that not to mention ordinary agency departments, even the White House itself, as well as Langley's CIA headquarters, as well as the FBI headquarters, and even the Pentagon, which has extremely high requirements for cybersecurity, will not fail to buy your things. ”

"Really, really!? Wow! It's, it's great!

Seeing that Alice was so surprised that she seemed to faint, Bush Sr. laughed even more: "Don't be too happy, kid, government contractors are not so easy to be!" Okay, I'll stop here, I'm old, let's go to the bathroom first, the plane should land soon......"

With that, he quickly got up with a stiff figure, and walked towards the curtain behind him.

"Then you go slowly! No hurry, no hurry, the plane has just arrived over Albuquerque! ”

The curtain was lifted, and Bush Sr. beckoned to Alice again, and then the curtain fell.

Then, at the same time as the curtain fell, Alice's expression of elation, which had been a second ago, immediately calmed down.

The expression changes so quickly that it's almost like changing the face.

"Tsk, in the face of a beautiful little Lori like me, he's a lustful old man, it's hard not to say that."

As she spoke, Alice pouted behind the door, and then looked across from her.

"You said yes, Flynn?"

The poor boy, who had been acting as a spectacle for almost half of the voyage, finally had his turn to speak.

"Uh...... Belch! (To be continued.) )