When Lex arrived at the Rodriguez estate, Merkel greeted him outside the door, and the butler, who was rarely not dressed in formal clothes, but in short-sleeved casual clothes, a pair of water shoes, and a hoe in his hand, looked like he had just finished working in the garden.

Merkel brought a waterproof blanket to the door, covered the waterlogged area at the door, and Lex and Clark got out of the car and walked into the Rodriguez estate under Merkel's guidance.

At this time, the sun had come out, and last night a heavy rain washed the manor in the sun, and the air was full of good smells of grass, and when the temperature had not yet risen, the slightly cold humid air made people feel cold from the nose to the throat.

When they found Bruce, he was sitting at a table under the awning at the back of the manor, fiddling with a black laptop.

Lex looked left and right and asked, "What about Professor Schiller?" ”

"He's gone to Gotham University, and he's just gone." Bruce stopped typing on the keyboard and looked up at Lex, looking a little surprised to see Clark behind Lex.

"Morning, Bruce, give it, the coffee I bought in the morning, Lex said he wouldn't drink it, and I'm worried about whether it will be wasted." Clark gave Bruce the cup of coffee he had given to Lex, the morning temperature was not too high, so the ice didn't melt completely, Bruce took the coffee and took a sip and said, "Thanks, I just need a pick-me-up." ”

Clark opened his chair and sat down, but Lex asked, "Why are you sitting here?" Don't you go to the house? ”

Bruce pouted into the garden and said, "I'll have to watch them both." ”

Lex looked in the direction of Bruce's turn, and Hallie ran after Barry with a water-spraying gardening hose, and the two doused the water everywhere, while Merkel dug up the dead plants and drank them.

Lex happened to be sitting down at the table, and he looked around him, this was the porch leading to the back garden, next to the table was the back door of the manor restaurant, and further on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the dining room, the glass was covered with a thin layer of dust, but because of the action of tending the garden, the walls were splashed with mud.

"What are you looking for me for?" Lex asked.

Bruce's hand paused, he turned the laptop in front of him, and asked the two of them, especially Clarke, "Have you used a Wayne Group laptop?" ”

Both shook their heads, and Clark reminisced for a moment and said, "Our editor-in-chief had one of these, and he used to show us about how good he was, but I knew he didn't really use a laptop at all, and he did all the work to his subordinates." ”

Lex cleared his throat and said, "It's probably because he doesn't know how to use it at all, and Wayne Group's computers are hard to use." ”

"What do you mean?" Bruce was immediately interested, he leaned forward, looked at Lex and said, "What's the difficulty?" ”

Lex opened his mouth for a moment, and after a moment's thought, he didn't answer immediately, but asked Bruce rhetorically, "Why did you suddenly start thinking about this?" ”

Bruce sighed deeply, remembering the previous night.

He came to visit Schiller, taking the old route, which was to jump from the side wall to the roof, and then from the roof to the tree in the back garden, but he didn't expect that even if he didn't wear a bat suit, the hat of the raincoat would be scraped by the branches, and when Merkel put him down, Bruce could clearly feel that Schiller was having nowhere to vent.

Bruce was still happy to see the laptop on Schiller's desk, after all, it was an electronic device he had developed, and there were bats in the boot animation.

But he didn't expect this to be the trigger that made Schiller angry, and Schiller carried Bruce to the table to show him how difficult the computer was.

But Bruce found it very inexplicable, he had heard a lot from Schiller about his ideas for electronic devices, and Bruce thought that the idea was very advanced, so he felt that the professor was not like the kind of old-fashioned who did not accept advanced equipment, let alone an electronic idiot who couldn't even figure out a computer.

In Bruce's opinion, what is so hard about computers? Isn't it already dozens or hundreds of times easier to enter the interface, enter the code, and jump to the program than to search for information aimlessly in the archives?

Bruce and Schiller had some disagreements about this, Bruce believed that the computer was a professional tool, and that using the tool to get the job done required some learning costs, which was the same as learning to drive, otherwise why take a driver's license?

People always need to remember some basic rules in order to be able to use new equipment more smoothly, just like the driver must remember where the brake and accelerator are on, the gear and street signs, etc., this is how humans have come over, so it is normal for the use of computers to require a certain amount of learning.

However, Schiller put forward a concept that was ahead of its time, which simply means that the operation of the computer is so simple that a three-year-old child can use it, and the learning cost is minimized.

Bruce doesn't like this philosophy, he thinks that if there is no barrier to entry for the use of the Internet, then humanity will surely enter a rather bad era of information explosion, and humanity will be dominated by the network rather than the network.

Bruce doesn't think it's a good thing to have everyone connected to the Internet, public opinion is sometimes a powerful weapon to hurt people, and if a three-year-old can hold this knife, how can he ensure that humanity does not waste time on meaningless virtual warfare?

In the end, Schiller did not continue to try to convince Bruce, because this is the case in this era, and people are afraid of the rapid development of electronic information, rather than the ordinary situation of eating and drinking as in later generations, when anyone can access the Internet at will, anytime, anywhere.

Schiller believes that it is not that he came from an era of information explosion, that he must glorify that era without flaws, and then urge Bruce to quickly use his genius and wisdom to send mankind into that era, which is irrational, because there are indeed all kinds of problems in the information age.

Where human beings in one universe are going is not determined by the established future of another universe, history is the choice of the masses, not forcibly changed by the prophets according to the heads of geniuses, every penny of human beings on this earth is their vote, and the technical route that can survive in the end is the direction of human beings.

So Schiller didn't bother too much, and went to work at Gotham University after breakfast, but like every debate that has happened in the past few years, Schiller didn't care anymore, and Bruce began to struggle again.

Bruce briefly told Lex and Clark about his disagreement with Schiller, then emphasized his point again, and finally looked at Lex and said, "I've heard that the user interface of the Luthor Group is very convenient, and I have used your group's computers before, but I'm not sure if it's really a good thing to lower the barrier to use electronic products again and again." ”

Bruce put his hands on the table and said: "The Internet is different from other household appliances, the convenience it provides to human beings is not reflected in the material world, but more like providing ready-made information, and all the information that can circulate in the human community will eventually become difficult to distinguish between true and false, and the final result of development must be chaos." ”

"Humans have never been able to understand each other, and if they have a very convenient way of communication, they will not understand each other, but they will expect more and more disappointed, is the dispute and contradiction that leads to a good thing for a species?"

Lex didn't expect Bruce to come to him to discuss this issue, and after a little thought, he said: "The idea of Lutor Group's electronic products is that we provide a shortcut for ordinary people, so that those electronic products that can only play the greatest role in the hands of professionals can provide convenient services for ordinary people." ”

"This minimizes the impact of poor information." Lex looked at Bruce and said, "Let the information that was once monopolized by the rich become a public resource that anyone can browse, and there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to profit from the poor information." ”

"So does that reduce class disparities? Or exacerbate the contradictions? Which one is what you want? Bruce asked.

"Promoting human development is what I want."

"You think this will give ordinary people more opportunities and make every human individual more valuable, but where does this value end up?"

Lex was silent for a moment, he knew the answer to this question, Bruce was enough to hit the nail on the head, obviously, if the liberated productive forces continued to be harvested, it would be equivalent to no liberation, and worse, the reaperswould have a more convenient way to provoke contradictions and open gaps.

At this time, both Lex and Bruce turned their heads and fell on Clark, who was still drinking coffee, was stunned for a moment and said, "What do you think I'm doing?" Do you want me to be the referee? ”

"Don't you have anything to say?"

"Is there any point in your discussion?" Clark was a little dazed and said, "So if any of you wins, will something be changed?" ”

"Of course, we ......"

Before Lex could finish speaking, Bruce looked at Clark and said, "You reminded me that we are not trying to control humanity in the direction we want, we just need to make a choice, and time will tell." ”

Lex opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't want to be less open-minded than Bruce in front of Clark, so he had to look at Bruce and ask, "Why are you visiting Rodriguez Manor in the middle of the night?" Still hanging from a tree? ”

Clark also looked at Bruce and asked curiously, "Yes, your father is not here, don't you need to manage the Wayne Group?" ”

"I'm here to avoid the limelight." Bruce said, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Shelter from the limelight?" Lex frowned and asked, "Who can let you hide from the limelight?" ”

"A troublesome woman."

At the door of Schiller's office at Gotham University, Pamela looked at Schiller with a pot of flowers and said, "Professor, I haven't had time to congratulate you on the housewarming of your office, this is a gift." ”

Schiller looked at the pot of flowers in Pamela's hand with some hesitation, Pamela knew what he was worried about, so he said, "Don't worry, Professor, this is just an ordinary pothos pot, it will not bite or hit people, and it can be placed on the windowsill to watch." ”

Schiller finally took the flower pot from Pamela and placed it on his windowsill, just then a shrill ringing bell came from Pamela, Pamela took out a Motorola mobile phone from his bag, pressed the answer button and said:

"Hey, Rand, what's wrong? Another plant jailbreak? Okay, I'll go back to the lab now...... What? Probably artificial?! Do you see a suspicious shadow? Don't act rashly, I'll go back right away! ”