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Different groups have different reactions to the gradual improvement of the Internet development in the United States. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The largest group is the gold diggers, who are only concerned with making money from it; And those who are politically sensitive like the glittering diamonds scattered on the huge treasure mountain, although they are only a minority, are engaged in various forms of games with the state apparatus and perhaps the monopolies. And the focus of maintenance is self-reliance.

This thing can't be eaten or drunk, it's a bit ethereal -- all living beings don't necessarily care.

On the other hand, for it, eating and drinking too much will cause diarrhea to run away; Lacking two pounds and thin, and having a yellow face and thin muscles -- where the real "degree" is, it is estimated that no one can accurately grasp it.

This kind of diligently seeking political ~ sensitive people are not full of food and have nothing to do, or they are unfounded.

You must know that while the Internet has brought countless new elements, it is also forming an invisible shackle.

To give a simple and vivid example, in the era of big data more than ten years later, if people accidentally lose their smartphones, the most convenient Internet terminal, they will definitely immediately feel a kind of confusion that is not heartache and property loss.

Some things are just not at the level, not enough vision, and ignorant and fearless.

Tang Huan would not be naïve to think that there is no "prism door" now, and he is not within the scope of peeping.

P2P peer-to-peer networks are designed to consolidate the free~free pattern on the Internet and block the trend of centralization - the new applications launched on the P2P architecture are expanding like a virus contagion, which shows how popular it is.

It can be said that at least in the future, when Mr. The richest man gives instructions to his subordinates distributed around the world, the communication security is further guaranteed.

Of course. These layouts made in order to protect everything he has now are carried out quietly - following the trend, which is what Tang Shoufu has always been good at.

As for the craze set off by P2P on the Internet, Tang Huan said it very frankly when answering reporters' questions.

For Bitcoin, for example, he said: "This kind of electronic money has developed almost with P2P. The biggest use now should be to provide an interesting and secure means of online payment; No matter how big the effect is, I haven't seen it yet. ”

The opinion of the richest man. It's pretty much the same as the observers' analysis. This makes reporters who are interested in taking the opportunity to hype it up, and they can't help but be disappointed.

Fortunately, Tang Huan appeared publicly this time, and there is still something to dig up.

Just like the last time "The Road to the Future" was released at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, just after entering 1996, the richest man published another book, and he also published two books in one go - "Digital Neural Network" and "The Matrix".

Among them, the former is a serious academic treatise, and the latter is a popular science fiction novel.

The main content of "Digital Neural Network" is how individuals, companies, and even society can construct a digital neural network that operates as precisely and efficiently as the human nervous system when the Internet is ubiquitous.

In "Digital Neural Network", Tang Huan formally talks about the high-tech-driven social experiments he has done in Hanoukville, Funan Special Economic Zone.

There has always been no shortage of billionaires in the history of the United States who have invested somewhere in order to achieve utopian dreams.

So, it's not a shock, it's something else that people are interested in.

For a long time, Mr. The richest man has been interacting with American politics as a business leader in Silicon Valley, so that his tendencies, support, etc., are also from the IT industry, and then analyzed by the outside world that there is no fixed system in politics ~ governance.

Now, the just-published book "Digital Neural Network" is quickly seen as a formal manifestation of Tang Huan's political ambitions.

Don't forget, this year, 1996, is the year of the quadrennial U.S. election – and politics-related topics are starting to heat up again.

Regarding the interpretation of "Digital Neural Network", there are political ~ political perspectives, and there are business perspectives, which can be said to be a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people.

If you want to give the most representative example, it is Ross Perrault, who appeared as a dark horse in the 1992 US election.

The Texas billionaire, who successfully minged money from the IT industry, was not short of votes for Lao Bu Shi, who was trying to seek re-election as president.

His various ideas, including the realization of direct democracy ~ ownership through "electronic town halls" across the United States, have made such an impression that they have been described by the media as a combination of "East Texas populism~populism and high-tech witchcraft".

Now, Ross Perrault is once again running in the US election.

Unlike the last time when he went it alone, Ross Perrault, having learned his lessons, began to realize the irreplaceable role of organization in politics, so he founded the United States of America Reform Party last year, in 1995.

In other words, Ross Perrault, who won a record 18.9% of the vote as an independent candidate in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, will run as the presidential candidate of the Reform Party this year.

Correspondingly, this old man's political ~ political program has also further matured.

When the book "Digital Neural Networks" came into Ross Perrault's field of vision, I immediately felt a feeling on the thigh - it was so well written! Why did I start the Reform Party and run for the U.S. presidency? It is because Americans are disappointed in the current corrupt political ~ governance game and are unable to deal with major issues related to the vital interests of the people at the bottom, and I give those voters who are dissatisfied with the Democratic ~ Main Party and the Republican Party a third choice of candidates.

It can be said that if it weren't for the fact that the richest man in Tang did not meet the conditions, Ross Perrault would have wanted to pull people into the gang and compete for the throne of the president and vice president of the United States.

You must know that the current trend is that although the economic situation in the United States is very good, and many people's incomes have increased significantly, the negative impact of political ~ political disputes cannot be ignored.

The Republican Party ~ and the Democratic Party ~ the main party are fighting like chickens and dogs, and the Bill Clinton couple, who are precisely the focus of attention, and such a handle as the Whitewater case are pinched, so that Sylarry Clinton, the dignified first lady of the United States, will appear before the Senate Investigative Committee on January 26 and testify in front of the federal grand jury, and then become the only first lady of the United States who has been subpoenaed so far.

According to the current situation of political ~ political struggle between Mars and the Earth, as in the original time and space, the Republican ~ Party's control of the meeting, stuck in the budget bill was not passed, forcing the Democratic ~ Main Party to govern the federal government ~ government to shut down, is no suspense.

This kind of political dispute, which has degenerated into a fight-for-war, wastes a lot of resources and delays the resolution of many major problems, and of course there will be groups among taxpayers who are very dissatisfied.

Ross Perrault was optimistic about such an opportunity, and once again rolled up his sleeves and personally put on the battle, and Tang's richest man's "Digital Neural Network" happened to give him theoretical inspiration at this time.

In search of further inspiration, Ross Perrault, a billionaire, has already made plans to visit the remote city of Hanoukville in the Funan Special Economic Region.

Compared with the impact on politics ~ governance, the sensation caused by "Digital Neural Network" in the business field is far-reaching.

Compared with old multinational companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Motorola, Tang Huan founded Zheru and Fang Yuan, whose qualifications are still very young, but they are not immature in terms of organization and management, and the degree of orderliness and efficiency is breathtaking.

There was already gossip coming out of Silicon Valley, and Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle who was in tatt-to-tat with Tang Huan, held "Digital Neural Networks", studied it carefully, and distributed a copy to everyone at an internal high-level meeting.

At the time, he reprimanded with exasperation: "Oracle has a presence in more than 100 regions around the world, but how many employees are there in the world?" I do not know! Because that data was all spread across 70 databases—Oracle had to adapt to make the company run as simple and efficient as a neural network. ”

In this regard, Oracle naturally vigorously denied it, angrily denounced that it was actually too boring, and even simply pushed it on business competitors, believing that this statement was a malicious smear act.

Sybase, who is fighting with Oracle in the field of multi-platform databases, is not afraid of hatred at all, and sneered - it's too hypocritical! If you can't even do the most basic honesty, how can you be worthy of the trust of users? We frankly admit that after reading Don's "Digital Neural Networks", we can find a successful experience that suits us.

Compared with the grandiose influence of the academic treatise "Digital Neural Network" in the fields of politics ~ governance and business, the science fiction novel "The Matrix" has also caused a huge sensation.

First of all, the setting of "The Matrix" is very interesting, it is based on the thought experiment of "Brain_in_a_vat" - "brain in a vat" proposed by American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist Hilary Putnam in the book "Reason, Truth, and History".

Compared with the common sense concept of "brain in the brain", the basis of "brain in a vat" is that everything that people experience must eventually be converted into nerve signals in the brain.

Suppose a mad scientist, machine, or any other consciousness takes a brain out of the human body and puts it into a vat of nutrient solution to maintain its physiological activity.

Next, the supercomputer transmits various neuroelectrical signals to the "brain in a vat" through nerve endings that are exactly the same as the original "brain in the brain", and gives the same signal feedback to the signals sent by the "brain in a vat" as the "brain in the cranium".

In this way, the world experienced by the "brain in a vat" is a kind of virtual reality created by a computer.

So, in this case, can the "brain in a vat" realize that they are actually living in virtual reality?

Let's briefly argue from the perspective of "what is real" -- because the "brain in a vat" and the "brain in the cranium" receive exactly the same signal, and this is the only way it communicates with the environment, it is completely impossible to determine whether it is a "brain in the brain" or a "brain in a vat" from the perspective of the brain.

If it is the former, then it is correct to think that it is indeed walking on the street or rowing a boat; If it's the latter, then it's wrong, it's not walking or rowing, it's just receiving the same electrical signal.

As a result, a brain cannot know that it is a "brain in a vat" and a "brain in a cranial".

Then the paradox follows - everything in this world may be false and false; But what is real? What is the ego?

If you only limit your thinking to the scope of your brain, it is estimated that this problem will always be an endless loop.

From a biological point of view, an individual's cognition or judgment of objective existence depends on the external stimuli it receives.

When the "brain in a vat" generates a series of "test" reactions to detect its own cognition, and at the same time, the "experimental system" can also give corresponding stimuli in response in time, the problem of "what is real" does not depend on the "brain in a vat" cognition of the "world", but on the "experimental observer's" own cognition of the "world".

"The Matrix" is in the context of the era of the rolling tide of the Internet, the "cyberspace" as the "tank" of the "brain in a cylinder", and a computer engineer who is ostensibly a 9-to-5, but in private is the protagonist of a clever hacker, through contact with a group of mysterious people, understand that the world he knows, is actually a virtual world created by computer programs, and then find a way to return to the real world, and try to defeat the real culprit behind the enslavement of human consciousness.

Unlike "Digital Neural Networks," which is admired by the elite, "The Matrix" has risen all the way to the top of the New York Times bestseller list after its publication - this is the third popular book by Tang Huan to win this best-selling book.

While feeling the heat of the Internet, people are relishing the brainstorming in it, and they are also analyzing the religious ~ religious beliefs shown by Mr. The Richest Man in "The Matrix", just like interpreting the political ~ political ambitions from "Digital Neural Network".

It is not difficult to imagine that the hugely popular "The Matrix" has great value in the eyes of Hollywood, and rumors of making movies are rampant.

When attending the book event, Tang Huan was chased by a reporter and asked, "Don, when will "The Matrix" be made into a movie?" Will you leave it to your own studio, or will you work with other studios? ”