The next guest speaker on stage was one of the Silicon Valley bigwigs who was named and accused in the opening speech, Google founder Larry Page.

Page gave an unscripted speech from the podium, responding to Carvald's critique and offering his own plan for tinkering with the Internet.

Well, the big guy directly "lined" Caravald on the spot.

Page's core idea includes two points: first, to use new technologies to solve existing technical problems, such as using algorithms to find illegal remarks and delete them after human confirmation. Second, by redesigning the product to encourage meaningful conversations, Google and MIT Media Labs collaborated to redefine meaningful online conversations, and finally found four dimensions, including "whether the communication between the two sides intersects; is not based on the same facts; Is it aware of the existence of different points of view, is it open and polite".

However, Page's reply did not please critics, just as Caravald's judgment also baffled many tech moguls.

But that's what TED is all about, putting people with different perspectives in the same place, prompting a conversation and then finding solutions to problems.

The first day of the conference was full of gunpowder, with journalists, shoji consultants, and tech experts discussing how to deal with the problems caused by the Internet and how to have a dialogue in the face of opposing views.

Larry Page's speech lasted more than six minutes on stage before it ended.

The male and female hosts who presided over the conference said in Chinese and English respectively: "Ladies and gentlemen, please applaud Mr. Luo Sheng, founder and CEO of Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology Group. ”

As early as two minutes ago, the staff at the scene had already contacted Luo Sheng in private, and he had already left from the big guy area in the audience.

After a while, in a burst of applause, the audience watched with surprise as the young richest man in the world pushed a tin bucket onto the podium.

What the heck?

Everyone couldn't understand this strange operation of the richest man in the world today, and their curiosity came for a while.

Luo Sheng glanced at the tin bucket that he pushed onto the podium, clapped his hands and began to speak: "When my parents were children, the disaster that people were most worried about at that time was nuclear war, so we had such tin buckets in the basement and put them in the cellar, they were used to store food, to ensure that when a nuclear war broke out, we could hide in the basement and live on these grains. ”

When many people in China heard this, they immediately thought of some historical imprints: digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and building embankments.

Although Luo Sheng can speak fluent English, he speaks in his native language in the mainland, and the audience has a professional real-time human translator.

I saw him say to the audience: "The greatest danger of global disasters of our time no longer looks like this kind of thing, but this kind of thing." ”

As he spoke, the giant screen at the conference site passed two pictures one after another, the first picture was a huge mushroom cloud of nuclear explosions, and the second picture was a microbial virus invisible to the naked eye.

Luo Sheng: "If there is something that can kill thousands of humans in the coming decades, it is more likely that it is a highly contagious biological virus than a war. Part of the reason is that humanity has invested a lot of energy and money in nuclear deterrence, but we have invested very little in the system of preventing the epidemic, and the world has not done a good job of preventing the next big epidemic. ”

The elites at the scene suddenly looked particularly surprised, they thought that Luo Sheng would take the stage to give a lecture on consumer electronics or Internet technology-related content, but they never expected that he would actually give a lecture on life science-related content.

Suddenly, an idea popped up in people, did Luo Sheng have a new move?

Is this time related to life sciences?

Indeed, the approval of the P4 laboratory has been obtained, and the content that Luo Sheng prepared today is to warm up for the next layout work.

After a moment, Luo Sheng from the podium brought up an image and continued: "Let's take a look at the Ebola virus first, I'm sure everyone has read about it in the newspapers or Internet media." Filled with many difficult challenges, carefully follow the development of these viruses with our Polio Tracking Case Study tool. ”

"As the epidemic develops, we can see that the problem is not that we don't have a system that can be used, but that there is no system in the world at all, and we can see that there are several obvious shortcomings, and we can't find a group of epidemic virologists who are ready to go to the epidemic area to see the pathology and the development of the disease."

"The pathology is all coming out of the news, basically the information is being uploaded very late, and we are very uncertain, we can't find many trained medical teams, and we don't have a way to get people to wait for them."

"Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has done a lot to mobilize volunteers, and that needs to be recognized. But even so, the speed at which we mobilized thousands of workers to the epidemic area was still very unsatisfactory, and the big epidemic even required us to mobilize hundreds of thousands or even millions of people on a very large scale. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng paused, paced back and forth on the podium, and continued after a while:

"None of us are looking at the direction of the data, no one is looking at the diagnostic method, and no one is thinking about what tools to use. For example, we may be able to take the blood of survivors, process it, and inject plasma into the human body to protect the people who are not sick, but this method has never been tried, and it is even more frustrating that many things are too late before they can do it, which is indeed a global failure for all mankind. ”

"The purpose of the World Health Organization is to monitor the epidemic virus and not to do the things I just talked about, but the plot in the movie is a different story, a group of handsome and beautiful epidemiologists are ready, they go to the affected area to save everyone affected and become heroes, but this is a pure Hollywood happy ending."

The audience at the scene saw a poster of a sci-fi disaster movie released on the giant screen, and the handsome and beautiful heroes and heroines looked solemn, but the audience at the scene burst into laughter.

The audience quickly fell silent, and after a moment, Luo Sheng said earnestly and attentively: "Our lack of preparation may lead to the next outbreak being more serious than the Ebola virus, so let's take a look at the development of the Ebola virus in West Africa in the past year." ”

Before the words ended, a visual dynamic data evolution model was immediately shown on the giant screen, and Luo Sheng continued: "...... About 10,000 people died, and all of them were in these three countries in West Africa, and I think there are three reasons why they didn't spread. ”

"The first reason is the many heroic deeds done by health workers, who have found a lot of patients and prevented more from getting sick; The second reason is the nature of the virus, the Ebola virus is not transmitted by the air, and by the time the spreader is contagious enough, most people are already bedridden; The third reason is that the virus did not spread to the Met. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng faced everyone with a serious expression, and the conference scene was also quiet, only his voice spoke.

"To be honest, it was pure luck that there wasn't an outbreak in the metropolis, and I can't imagine what a terrible catastrophe it would have been if the Ebola virus had spread to a megalopolitan area with a population of 10 million."

"So next time we may not be so lucky, some viruses may make you unaware, but when people infected with the virus take transportation, or go to densely populated areas such as shopping malls, and places with a lot of movement, they are actually already contagious."

"In addition, the source of the virus can be natural, such as Ebola, or it can be produced by a bioterrorist attack, or it can be in contact with wild animals, so the virus that can make the epidemic a thousand times worse is present on the planet we live in."

"Let's look at a mathematical model of a virus being transmitted through the air."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng looked back at the giant screen and introduced: "This is the 1918 Western Tooth Extraction Influenza, the virus will spread to all corners of the world at a very fast speed, and a total of 30 million people around the world have died from this virus. ”

Luo Sheng turned back to the audience again: "This is a very serious problem, we should definitely not ignore it, we can actually build a good response system, we can use all the science and technology that has been developed so far, we can use mobile phones to collect information and publish information, we also have satellite maps to see where people are and where they are moving." ”

"At the same time, we have very good progress in biology, which can greatly reduce the time we can find pathogens, and we can develop antidotes and vaccines in a very short time, so we have the tools."

"We need to do a lot of research and development work in vaccines and pathology, and I am very happy to contribute as much as possible to this field, and at the same time call on technology companies, research institutions and wealthy people around the world to pay attention to this field and actively participate in this field. I don't have a clear budget for how much it will cost, but I'm sure it's pretty cheap compared to the potential damage caused. ”

Speaking of which, Luo Sheng called up a statistical report.

"According to World Bank estimates, if we had a flu outbreak, the global economy would lose more than $3 trillion and thousands of people would be killed or injured, and there would be significant benefits to these additional investments compared to just being prepared."

"Basic health care, R&D can promote the balanced development of global health and make our world healthier and safer, so I think it's very important and urgent, but we don't need to panic too much, we don't need to hoard a lot of food and hide in the basement, but we have to catch up because time is limited."

"If there's one positive impact of the Ebola outbreak, it's that it's an early warning to all of humanity to wake up and be ready, and if we can start preparing, then we can be ready when the next outbreak comes, thank you."

Luo Sheng's speech lasted less than ten minutes before it ended, and as he stepped off the podium, the audience also offered warm applause, and the staff silently removed the tin bucket he had pushed from the stage.

And Luo Sheng's appeal has also attracted the attention of many people, especially those in the capital circle.

Many people secretly speculate that the world's richest man may be playing new tricks again, otherwise it would be impossible to give this talk at the TED conference for no reason, and what is more interesting is that this is also a huge business span with Luo Sheng's usual business.

This is a crossover from the Internet and ICT field to the life science field, and the crossover is not ordinary, and Luo Sheng expressed in his speech that he wants to show his strength in the field of life sciences.

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