Chapter 377: Time is like water
Time flies, and more than half of the 60s have passed at once.
After returning to the United States from Vietnam, Alex never left the country.
Even though he once thought about traveling around the world with Brigit, because Brigitte's career was in full swing, he was reluctant to miss the opportunity, which affected their plans.
In the past few years, Alex has exerted his influence to the maximum, not only has a very far-reaching impact on entertainment, technology, economy, politics, etc., but also interferes in the international situation in the world.
The impact of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States is very huge, the Chinese population is large and the labor force is cheap, and under the deliberate guidance of the country's leaders, American investment and technology quickly entered and developed in this land.
Since it was not affected by the turmoil of the decade, China's economic foundation at this time was quite good, and with the injection of foreign technology and capital, its development speed was no worse than that of its neighbor Japan. A large number of cheap products flocked out, and soon occupied the market for low-end products, making a huge contribution to the economy of the world.
As for Alex's impact on technology, it's even more terrifying. Since Alex stopped focusing on one area, he has invested in a number of science and technology that interests him, and has become a number of small companies. In order to find a place to accommodate these small companies, he also bought a large piece of land near Seattle's Silicon Valley and established the Ark Science Park.
This science and technology park is a bit similar to the incubation base of technology companies in later generations, in normal times. He will not pay attention to these companies, but will only send people to monitor the use of funds and the progress of research and development. When these companies are about to achieve results, they will invest more money to bring new products to market quickly.
Under his approach, all kinds of unexpected technological products soon appeared. There are some things that even Alex himself has never seen. In fact, at first, he only provided a little money and guidance, and the rest relied on those people to develop it themselves, but in the end, he was able to give surprising results.
In fact, this is normal because of the development of technology. It's like a snowball. The bigger it rolls, the faster it rolls.
Under the guidance of Alex's vision beyond the times, the Carpenter family's company developed like a fly, and it was particularly affected by the computer field, electronic appliances, rocket and aviation fields, satellite technology and so on. From the perspective of the Hereafter. The level of technology in this era can almost be compared with that of the 90s.
In particular, the Internet, which Alex is very concerned about, is growing the fastest. It was like a big bang. It appeared in front of everyone at once, completely changing people's lives.
Because the interests involved in the Internet are too wide, and the pie of this market is getting bigger and bigger. It makes many people very greedy to watch. Even the detached attitude of the Venerable Master is not exempt from vulgarity, and they are also thrilled to face this situation, even if Alex is their partner, it is impossible to swallow the whole big cake alone.
Today, the "Internet" is privately owned, not a public resource, as was the case in later generations, and no one can claim sole ownership of the Internet. But because of this, after a few years of development, the Internet encountered some obstacles, because no one else wanted to sit back and watch the Carpenter family dominate the entire network.
So Alex simply came to share the benefits and let other masters also participate in the development of the Internet, but he insisted on leading the development direction and not letting others mess with his plans. At this point, those people are completely indisputable.
After several years of negotiation and debate, the ownership of the Internet was finally separated from the Ark Group, and a "Skynet Company" was formed. Among them, the Ark Group has invested 51% of the shares with the current ownership of the "Internet", and the other family consortiums have invested a total of hundreds of billions of US dollars, accounting for 49% of the shares.
This is a very large amount of money, although in the eyes of outsiders, up to hundreds of billions of dollars is very staggering, but in Alex's opinion, he is a little reluctant to sell the shares. Because in the future, any Internet company can have a market value of 100 billion, if it is really calculated according to that, he will lose a lot of money.
But fortunately, with the cooperation of all the "people", the obstacles to the development of the Internet have finally been removed, and it has entered various countries for development and growth very smoothly. Skynet is only responsible for the provision of technology and personnel support, as for the funds or something, it is up to the countries to prepare, after all, the influence of those people is not a joke.
According to Alex's estimates, in another five or six years at most, Internet technology will be truly rolled out in an all-round way. By that time, at least it will be the same as it was in the late nineties, but it will definitely be faster in terms of speed, because Alex is a strong supporter of fiber optic networks, and coaxial cables will never be used where fiber can be used.
In addition, the Carpenter family is also invincible in television broadcasting and film entertainment, and ABC TV has become the leader of the three major television stations in the United States, with the largest broadcast network and the most resourceful programming team.
Some of the best shows and series are American Idol, Survivor, Star Trek, Forensic Records, and many more.
All kinds of wonderful variety shows, highly rated TV dramas and news programs with a wide audience were born on ABC TV, and if it were not for the existence of the anti-monopoly law, ABC TV might one day swallow up the other two national TV stations.
In terms of films, DreamWorks still dominates Hollywood, becoming the world's leading and most profitable film company. Its actors, directors, and agents are all over the world, and as long as they are slightly famous filmmakers, they will try their best to squeeze into this company, even if it is gilded, it is a good choice.
During this time, DreamWorks' films such as "Planet of the Apes", "Red Dawn", "Red Alert", "Star Wars", "Red Dead Redemption", and "2001: A Space Odyssey" were very popular, and once caused a trend of filming huge money science fiction films in Hollywood, and even broke the unwritten rules, so that science fiction films won many Oscars.
On top of that, the Carpenter siblings are still on the rise, and their influence in the music industry is growing day by day, and they are almost a legendary group. In this music group, Alex has rarely appeared for a long time, but he has not announced his retirement from the music scene.
However, from time to time, he would give Richard and Cullen some advice and guidance, so that they could grow up quickly and go their own creative paths.
At this point, Richard? Carpenter is not only a hot and popular singer, he is also a famous composer, music producer, movie star, etc. Under Alex's guidance, he wrote many popular songs, such as "Yesterday Repeats", "Top of the World", "Please Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman", "Close-To-You" and other songs.
As for the younger sister of the two of them, the lovely and beautiful Karen? Carpenter, under everyone's attention, has grown up healthy and happy. She did not suffer from anorexia as she did in history, but looked a little chubby due to gluttony, but she was still a young and beautiful girl, and she was very popular with fans and fans.
The young Cullen took "Yesterday Again" to a very high level, much better than the historical version. When Alex saw this new version of "Yesterday Again", he immediately felt that everything he had done since his rebirth had been rewarded.
In addition to this, Alex has had the greatest influence on the world of the world, on the other side of the world, the great red country of the Soviet Union! Because of his "equatorial ring" plan and the corresponding space station design plan, the country's astronauts have new horizons and ideas.
In 1961, the Soviet Union suddenly announced that it would build a permanent space station in outer space. The space station is named "Mir Space Station" and will consist of several parts. At first, it could only accommodate 3 astronauts at a time, but the eventual goal was to expand to accommodate 100 astronauts.
In the beginning, the Mir space station only had a core module, followed by several rocket launches, and soon the rest of the parts were also assembled. Until 1965, the space station had six regular in-orbit formations, namely the core module, the Quantum 1 astrophysics module, the Quantum 2 airlock module, the Crystal experimental module, the Spectrum remote sensing module, and the Nature Earth observation module.
Once again, the Soviets went ahead of the Americans, and with their rising national power at the time, they did what none of the capitalist countries could do. In particular, the concept of the space station proposed by Alex is indeed more in line with the development of technology, and the return on the economy is also very large.
Through the experiments on the Peace Space Station, many physical techniques have been further developed, and the study of living things has also been greatly improved. Many high-yielding seeds are produced from space, allowing people to see huge economic benefits.
But this was not the goal of the Soviet Union, their goal was to finally conquer space and land on the moon. A spokesman for the Soviet space agency declared: "Before 1969, the Soviets will set foot on the moon!" ”
This lunar landing plan is obviously aimed at NASA in the United States, because according to the American plan, it must be landed on the moon in 1969! At this time, the Soviet Union said that they would go to the moon before this year, which was simply a slap in the face to the United States, and it also showed very strong confidence.
The Soviets were so shocked by their ambitions that they succeeded in drawing everyone's attention to the moon above their heads, and asking them about the details of the Soviet plan to land on the moon. The Americans were also stunned, and they strongly demanded that the government quickly formulate a plan for the moon landing, and must go to the moon before the Soviets. (To be continued......)
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