Ostensibly, Alex sent Ark to talk to AT&T.

In fact, he knew that it might not work. Because AT&T actually has a strong backer behind it, and even Alex can't get a backer. That's Alexander, who invented the telephone? Bell, like Alex, is also a "human master".

On some previous occasions, Alex has met Mr. Bell, who is known as the "father of the telephone" in the world. He was dignified, with white hair and a serious expression. There was a kind of appearance that no one should enter, and he said very little, and basically did not hear him speak.

Bell himself was an acoustic physicist and teacher of deaf speech. Before him, the German Philippe? Lacey had invented a telephone, but its sound transmission was so bad that it could not be used. On March 10, 1876, Bell and his colleagues experimented with the world's first working telephone.

In addition, Bell invented an instrument for measuring hearing, an instrument for discovering metals in the human body, and other inventions.

In addition to inventing the telephone, Alexander? Bell also invented the giant kite that carried people, invented a hydrofoil for the Canadian Navy to compete with the German U-Boat in World War II, and improved the gramophone.

Bell is also an American blind and deaf female author, educator, philanthropist, social activist, and Helen? Keller's longest-standing and best friend.

According to Alex's understanding, Bell did not choose to transform into a vampire, but instead practiced some kind of Christian practice. Although Bell looks old on the outside. But the spirit is still very good, and it is estimated that he will be able to live for a long time.

Perhaps because of his personality, Bell did not like noisy environments and chose to live in seclusion.

Alex had a hard time getting in touch with each other, but luckily he found John through Jannis? Rockefeller, and then contact Mr. Bell through the old vampire.

As prominent contemporaries, John and Bell used to be good friends, and the Rockefeller consortium also secretly controlled some of the shares of AT&T. It's just that John thinks Alex is working in vain.

"Old friend Bell has long been out of business, and he won't pay attention to your sesame mung bean thing." John said to Alex. It's just that Alex doesn't want to back down at the end. Insist on getting in touch with Bell.

"If he didn't care about AT&T, wouldn't this company have been swallowed up by other families a long time ago?" Alex thinks so, he thinks that without the support of the "human master", maybe this company already belongs to the Rockefeller family.

John was undeniable. He did not answer the question. He didn't want to spend too much energy on these kinds of things. It's like when a monkey becomes a human. I don't want to go back and interfere with the living conditions of the monkeys, but focus on the people themselves. In his opinion, Alex is still too young. It just has the status of "being a person", and does not have the mentality of "being a person".

Sure enough, Alexander? Bell didn't pay attention to Alex's thoughts at all, and instead let people convey a sentence: "Don't bother me!" ”

Judging from the other party's words, Bell really ignored the matter of AT&T. There is nothing incomprehensible about this, for these people, no matter how much power and prestige they have in the world, they are no more powerful than any of them.

Alex felt a little scratched his head about this, the upper route didn't work, so he could only take the lower route to see.

It didn't take long for AT&T to give a cooperation plan, and after some verbal arguments between the two sides, and because the Rockefeller consortium played some roles, it finally gave a six-four split plan.

Of course, AT&T takes the lion's lead, and Ark's 40% has made many people exclaim incredible.

Even Noyce, Moore and others were surprised, they never thought that the other party would give such a big concession, in their opinion, it was already very remarkable that their side could get 30% of the benefits.

It's just that Alex is very dissatisfied, not because he takes less, because if he cooperates with the other party, he will slowly lose his leading role and eventually become a spectator.

Finally, at the meeting, Alex finally made a decision and said: "Let's do optical fiber!" ”

"Fiber!"

After hearing this, everyone was a little panicked, they didn't expect that under such "lucrative" conditions given by AT&T, Alex still decided to take the road of "fiber optic network".

You know, it's the 60s! Without Alex and Ark, optical signal transmission would still be a fantasy technology.

Even if the golden finger is opened, the optical fiber technology that Ark has developed can be used at best, but it is very difficult to mass production. The first problem is funding, and then the technical problem.

"Yes, fiber!" Alex reiterated it once, saying, "Of course, it is impossible to achieve fiber optic Internet anytime soon by relying on Ark alone. We have to rely on the power of the state, and let the government and the military bear part of the R&D investment. ”

"It's the same as the rocket satellite technology that SCC is researching?" Moore quickly understood the meaning, and he had thought about going down this path, but he couldn't do it without connections.

"Yes, just like SCC, let's send some people to the Pentagon first, maybe they're interested in this Internet technology."

Under Alex's order, the Ark Company immediately organized public relations personnel to lobby the Pentagon, and in addition, the Ark Company also set up a separate optical fiber research and development department and established another optical fiber company.

Soon, an Asian with yellow skin and black hair came to the company to report. Carrying a black briefcase, he looked up at the company's plaque and muttered, "American Light Giant!" ”

His name is Charles Kao and he is of Chinese descent.

A few months ago, Charles Kao was a member of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. He is a senior engineer in the UK subsidiary. He was very interested in all kinds of advanced technologies, and when he joined the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, he was still studying for a doctorate, and even after working, he never put down his research.

Charles Kao was very interested in the "optical fiber technology" developed by the Ark Company, and he has also written a paper on this technology.

However, a month ago, the Ark Company sent someone to contact him and wanted to hire him to join a new company. Develop the latest fiber optic technology for them.

When it first started. He excused himself for a variety of reasons.

But the other party did not give up, and has been persuading him, and the Ark company promised to invest up to $40 million in optical fiber research. At the same time, he was shown a copy of the "Internet" plan document.

As long as he agreed. He has at his disposal the huge amount of R&D funds.

What's more. The "Internet" project is based entirely on his fiber optic technology, and once this plan is realized, it is bound to change the world completely.

Charles Kao. is a person with dreams.

He wants to make the world a better place, he wants the world to change for him.

What he values is not a generous annual salary, nor an option dividend, but the influence of this job, which can make him no longer have regrets in his life. He didn't want to regret that he didn't take the job when he was old.

Now that he's here, he sees the company he's fighting for.

"Mr. Gao! Hello! ”

He was soon greeted by a well-known man, Mr. Moore, a computer expert who was also the head of department at the Ark.

"Hello, Mr. Moore!"

Kao immediately recognized Moore, and he hurriedly walked over and the two shook hands.

"This company has just been formed, and there may be many areas that are not perfect, so if you have any needs, please feel free to bring them up." Moore smiled at Charles Kao and led him around.

Along the way, Charles Kao saw that most of the people around him were white, and everyone was busy, as if they had wheels under their feet, and never stopped.

Many people don't quite understand Alex's hiring of Charles Kao, thinking that this unknown Asian can't take on such a heavy responsibility. However, the people had already been invited, and they did not say anything more. Westerners may have all kinds of problems, such as arrogance, racial discrimination, etc., but once the name is determined, they will not secretly delay the tricks.

Having lived in Western countries for many years, Charles Kao knew how to convince him, and by leading by example and demonstrating his professional knowledge and skills, he soon gained the trust and obedience of his colleagues.

Under Alex's guidance, Charles Kao has made great progress in the research of optical fiber technology. Various theories and technologies that are ahead of the times have been released, and there has been a breakthrough success in optical fiber physics, reducing the cost of optical fiber transmission over long distances, and more than 100 key patent achievements have been obtained in less than half a year.

But this only solves the technical hurdles, and there is still the problem of funding.

Judging from the information coming from the Pentagon, the US Government and the military are hesitant to make a decision on this kind of information integration network, and the controversy is very great, and there is no unity of opinion.

The main thing is that people in this era do not see the benefits of the Internet. After all, there are only a few people who have a vision beyond the times, and most of those politicians and military people only focus on the current interests and cannot see the future direction of technological development in more than ten years.

The publicists sent by Alex had no choice but to keep the other party neutral and not actively promote the project.

In fact, this is already quite remarkable, if Alex is not a member of the "human master", his actions would have attracted attacks from all sides. Once they find that it is profitable, those forces that are lying in ambush in the shadows will immediately pounce on them and take a few bites.

Not to mention, Alex tried to bypass AT&T and take it upon himself. In fact, when Alex sent people to lobby the government, several families and consortia had already come to inquire about cooperation.

Especially the Rockefeller Consortium and the Hughes Group, the Carpenter family is inextricably linked with them, and it is not easy to reject them. As a result, Alex threw away the "optical fiber network plan" with the largest investment and the slowest recovery cost, and those people immediately ran away for more than half of the time, and then the remaining half continued to inquire about the content of the cooperation, and they all left one after another.

Because Alex threw out a hard bone, if you want to join and cooperate, the investment will definitely be not small. What's more, Alex will not give up the dominant power in his hands, which is why he is reluctant to cooperate with AT&T.

Otherwise, he would have patted his ass and left it to the people below to tinker with, so why bother to get this thing himself.

In the end, the Hughes Group also retreated, although Hughes and Alex made a lot of money in the aerospace field, but there were also many places to spend money. Hughes swayed from side to side for a long time, but decided to turn to aerospace and no longer be distracted by other big projects.

Only the Rockefeller consortium is determined to follow to the end, even if they can't get the biggest piece of the pie, and they can't dominate it, but they seem to have bought it and left. Although Alex deliberately made things difficult for the other party a few times and offered more harsh conditions, the Rockefeller consortium would not let go even if he was killed.

"What's going on!"

Alex immediately sensed that there was something wrong with it, so he bypassed the Rockefeller family and went directly to John? Rockefeller communicated: "Did you intervene in it, otherwise how would they have accepted such harsh conditions?" ”

John? Rockefeller smiled and said, "I have also seen your Internet plan, and I think that if it is completed, it will have a great impact on the world, and the benefits will definitely be very high." So I made a small bet, betting that your vision will not be wrong! ”

"Then buy and leave, and don't regret winning or losing!"

Alex was at a loss after hearing this, since John was so brazen as to say "his vision is good", how could he slap himself in the face. The most important thing is that with the addition of the Rockefeller consortium, there will basically be no problem with the research funding of the Ark Corporation.

The most important thing is to convince the government and the military that if we follow the normal historical trajectory, by 1969, the US Department of Defense will also build its own small network, which is a network of only four nodes made by the Advanced Research Projects Administration, distributed on four mainframe computers at the University of California, the University of California, Stanford University, and the University of Utah in Los Angeles.

After nearly 20 years of historical evolution, the Internet was finally formed, and the network was linked to thousands of households.

It's just that it's only the early 60s, and Alex's Internet plan was launched too early, even though a small LAN has been implemented, and several networking technologies have been successfully developed, but it is still too radical.

"For now, the only way to convince conservative people is to get them to participate in the project."

Alex frowned, and a bold idea popped up. The Soviet Union is what conservatives fear the most, and the reason why the U.S. Department of Defense has historically invested in cyber technology is a plan to prevent Soviet attacks.

"Red Dawn!"

Since the transfer of benefits and political donations cannot convince the other side, the only way to intimidate them is to throw out the Soviet threat theory and make those people realize the necessity of the existence of Internet technology.

If you want to cause a topic in a short period of time and form a public opinion, in addition to sending experts to build momentum in newspapers and television, there is also a faster and more convenient way, that is, to make movies.

Alex wanted to make a film called "Red Dawn" to depict the threat from the Soviet Union, and to show the power of Internet technology before it could be promoted. (To be continued......)