Friday, April 8.
At 12 noon US Eastern time, after more than ten hours of boring flight, Xiao Qi set out alone and finally arrived in New York, the heart of the US empire.
People who have not been to the United States will feel that the United States is full of super cities, and every corner is a megalopolis such as the capital, Dongfang and Nanwan.
In fact, the real super city in the United States is almost only New York. Even their capital, Washington, D.C., is not a super large city. It is just a plot of land combined by a wide administrative region, which is far from the building and population density of New York or even the east of the capital.
The area of the United States is about the same as that of China, but its population is only one fifth of that of China, and most of them are plain and hilly areas, so there are many places for them to live, so there is no need for everyone to squeeze together in the city.
It is only New York, the world's financial, cultural and entertainment center, that so many people gather. The rest of the small cities in the United States have a population of 20000 or 30000 everywhere. Compared with the high, large and global urban construction scheme prevailing in China, it is really not a way.
New York is a city with a very tense rhythm. The most famous natural is the notorious Wall Street in the future. The various financial traps flowing out here directly harm the people all over the world, making it difficult to get up.
From the bottom of his heart, as an engineering doctoral graduate, Xiao Qi is a little wary of a wide range of fraudulent financial means. In his opinion, no matter when, people can only make progress through technology and industry, and those virtual various finance will be despised by everyone sooner or later.
For example, the elites of Wall Street are already carrying out conspiracies one after another, and the crisis is imminent. However, except for a few people who clearly know it, even these elites themselves are addicted to the "game" developed by themselves.
Xiao Qi is not so great. He will rush to the U.S. government to tell them what the global financial crisis will look like in the future, because if he does so, his best end is to be locked up in a mental hospital for research.
Moreover, from the later analysis of some experts, Xiao Qi even knew that behind wall street, there was a faint shadow of the U.S. government. In this global financial storm, if the U.S. government's ass was clean, it was almost unbelievable.
So, Xiao Qi is just passing by.
Where he wanted to go, there was no direct plane from China. It happened to be not far from New York, so he chose New York.
In fact, in the United States for seven or eight years, Xiao Qi basically had not been out of Southern California, let alone New York, which almost had to cross the whole United States.
He didn't even leave the airport. He went directly to the counter of American Airlines and handled his ticket to Washington.
Some people say that the United States is a country on wheels. Xiao Qi thinks it's good, because almost every family in the United States has a car and likes to travel around in a car.
There are few tolls on other people's highways. I'm afraid the toll ratio is less than 10%. All highway maintenance costs have been included in the oil price. Therefore, even Americans' favorite pickup truck consumes a lot of oil, they can afford it.
But at the same time, it should also be said that the United States is a country on a plane.
Because almost every American town you can know has a population of more than 50000 and can be reached by plane, which makes China, which is almost an airport in each province, very ashamed.
In addition, there are many airlines in the United States, and the fuel cost is surprisingly cheap. Under many competitions, the ticket price is frighteningly cheap.
Because their air and land transportation networks are so developed, it is convenient for Americans to go anywhere and there will be no delay in time.
There are two main things for Xiao Qi to come to the United States. The first thing is naturally the most important thing to do is to fix his closed operating system. The second is what he wants to do now - go to Carlisle, Alexandria, Virginia, to find the U.S. patent and trademark office there and apply for several important patents.
You may not be familiar with Alexandria. In fact, just remember that it is close to Washington, a little south of Washington.
Most of the U.S. government agencies are in Washington, but they are not close together. They are scattered around.
For example, the headquarters of the patent and Trademark Office under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Commerce has gone to Virginia, but in fact, it is about an hour's drive from the White House in Washington.
Xiao Qi likes to play with electronic products such as mobile phones and tablet computers. Therefore, he also knows that in a few years, the so-called patent disputes are overwhelming. With this big killer, apple swept Samsung, HTC, Motorola and other companies, of which Samsung gave us $1.2 billion in compensation with tears in its eyes.
Xiao Qi wants to make tablet computers and mobile phones, but he can't step through many patent traps.
In previous lives, foreign high-tech companies have already occupied every aspect of the mobile phone and tablet computer industry through thousands of patents, so that all mobile phone and tablet computer manufacturers in China can't get rid of it just like they have drilled into a silk hole.
Just as many Chinese enterprises do, if they don't strive for something, they will finally find that most of the money they earn is earned for others.
In order to make their electronic Empire smoother, teenagers have been preparing for what they want to do since the moment they decide to make a tablet computer.
In his suitcase, there were only one or two sets of changed clothes, and the remaining more than 500 drawings involved 120 patents, all prepared for this patent application.
When it comes to applying for a patent, people may feel very mysterious and high-tech. It takes a genius to apply for a patent.
However, in fact, according to the internationally accepted patent law, patents are usually divided into three categories: invention patents, design patents and plant patents.
Powerful electronics companies, such as apple, Nokia and Motorola, naturally do the first two.
Xiao Qi studies precision machinery, which is almost different from the electronic category. Therefore, in terms of technology, even if the two geniuses Edison and Tesla are attached together, he can't catch up with the precipitation of tens of thousands of researchers in other people for decades.
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