Chapter 1040 The Beginning of a New Era?
Saint Petersburg International Airport.
In the terminal waiting for takeoff, Krugman and Professor Albert, who were carrying suitcases, looked quite tired.
It has been a week since the International Congress of Mathematicians came to an end.
After the closing ceremony, the two did not leave St. Petersburg immediately.
After all, this is the famous "City of Mathematics" in Eastern Europe. The world's top mathematics research institutions, such as the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, are located here.
While visiting these mathematical research institutions and holding lectures to find like-minded scholars with sufficient abilities, the two also tried a few times in the end, trying to get Perelman to come out to help them complete that great vision.
However, it is frustrating that since the last 60-minute report of the IMU conference ended, Perelman has entered a strange state.
If he would patiently answer their questions before that, now he doesn't even bother to open the door for them.
The vacation time has run out, and it is impossible for the two of them who have their own work to stay here endlessly.
Therefore, the two who had a bad nose in St. Petersburg finally decided to go back to the United States before considering the next step after discussing it.
If it is really not possible, the threshold for collaborators should be appropriately relaxed, at least let the project get on the right track first, and it is not too late to recruit new collaborators after some results are produced.
"...It's a pity that Professor Lu left too early. I feel that he is actually a little interested in our plan." Looking at the waiting hall with people coming and going, Professor Krugman suddenly said with emotion, "If there is no It’s fine if that kind of accident happens, we’re working hard, if we praise him, maybe he’ll agree.”
"Yeah... I think so too," Albert sighed, raised his hand to look at the time on his watch, and stood up from his chair, "It seems that my flight has arrived... Then, I will Take a step."
"Take care, email me."
"Um."
Stanford University is on the west coast of North America, where Albert is a visiting professor at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB). Princeton, where Krugman works, is on the East Coast, a few time zones away from California.
After the old friend left, Krugman picked up a newspaper from the side, spread it on his knees, and flipped through it to pass the time.
However, when he saw the headlines for the first time, he was completely stunned.
"...frozen dormancy?"
Changed the newspaper...
The title of the headline is the same!
At this point, Krugman's expression finally began to become intriguing.
Raising his index finger and pushing down his glasses, he carefully read the headlines of the newspaper in his hand, the shock and disbelief in his eyes became more and more obvious, and finally he couldn't help muttering something in a low voice.
"This... this is too crazy."
Freeze hibernation!
Go to the future for treatment!
This was probably the craziest thing he had heard this year!
Before that, he had vaguely heard about the Huaguo where Lu Zhou transferred Miss Puyouyi, but he didn't expect that he actually had this idea.
but……
Compared with Miss Puyouyi's current situation, what he cares more about is the cryogenic hibernation technology itself.
This reminded him of a paper he wrote a long time ago on the theory of interstellar trade. In the paper, he just casually mentioned that all capital activities are based on the time dimension.
If human beings can "walk upright" on the time scale, the existing financial order will be impacted unprecedentedly, and people will be more inclined to hold long-term asset varieties with stable returns, and will no longer be inclined to invest in high-risk high-return investments , especially in the high-tech industry where the generations change every ten years, because time will no longer be an expensive cost, and the value of waiting will not be worth mentioning...
Just to give an example, if you deposit 10,000 U.S. dollars in a currency fund, as long as the annual rate of return can be guaranteed to be 4 points, according to compound interest calculations, the interest alone will be more than 60,000 U.S. dollars after 50 years, and the principal plus 70,000!
It's equivalent to a seven-fold increase!
If the figure of the principal is magnified by a hundred times, the time will be extended by another fifty years...
"This stuff is simply a financial bomb..." Turning the page of the newspaper in his hand, Krugman murmured to himself, "I am afraid that the performance of Nasdaq and the global bond market will be very bad tomorrow." Wonderful……"
Maybe it's not just financial...
Its power can no longer be measured simply by money.
Equality between people is based on birth, old age, sickness and death. No matter whether they are rich or poor, common people or princes and nobles, they will all die in the end.
However, cryo-hibernation technology undoubtedly broke this balance.
Now, the power of life may still be equal, at least the power won by people since the French Revolution has not been subverted, but the power of death is no longer equal...
If they can live decently in the utopia of the future, who would like to stay in the present and build utopia in disgrace?
Some of the lucky ones will step onto the first step of eternal life. No matter how far away the second step is, the inequality of death will first be seen in human civilization that has developed to this stage.
This seemingly ordinary technology may actually have a greater impact on the entire society than controllable fusion. It is no exaggeration to say that it will even completely change the face of human civilization.
From a sociological point of view, it corresponds not to a steam engine, nor an internal combustion engine or a power generator, but printing!
Its birth is paving the way for a major event that will be more far-reaching and powerful than the "Enlightenment" and "French Revolution", until the civilization that masters this technology will be in the "new equality" It stops when a balance based on compromise and tolerance is reached.
And this process will definitely be difficult and full of danger.
Of course, he also admitted that this kind of thinking may be too one-sided, and the richer people are, the more cautious they are in weighing the balance between risks and benefits.
Thinking from the other side of logic, taking the risk of not waking up to enjoy uncertain power and assets in an uncertain future is far worse than living in the present when you have reached the pinnacle of your life.
After all, no matter how brilliant your eyes are, if you put a businessman from the 19th century into the 21st century, he might be confused by the dazzling array of financial products and the global trade rules under the new order.
After all, in the era when he lived, the lucrative business was colonial plunder and dumping of industrial products, but now it is fashionable to loot a country's treasury with only banknotes without firing a single shot.
Only those who can't afford the tickets to the future will have the idea of going on an adventure with no return, and looking for opportunities in the new world.
And at the same time, considering that survival is the first need of living things. Even if this technology is not brought out today, someone will definitely open this Pandora's box one day in the future.
Needless to say, this is an interesting topic.
It was even interesting to realize that it was enough for him to temporarily put aside the great and challenging subject he was working on.
Thinking of this, Professor Krugman unconsciously held his breath, and kept rubbing his index finger and thumb holding the newspaper.
He just wants to do one thing now.
That is to go back to my office immediately, sort out the things I am thinking of at the moment, and then sort them out and write them on the paper...
Maybe, he could have another title in his lifetime.
for example……
Father of the New Enlightenment?
It's exciting to think about.