Chapter 1039

St. Petersburg International Airport.

In the waiting hall, Professor Krugman and Professor Albert, who were carrying suitcases, looked very tired.

It's 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 mathematical research institutions, such as the stekelov Institute of mathematics, are all located here.

While visiting these mathematical research institutions and giving lectures to find like-minded and capable scholars, the two finally tried several times to let Perelman come out to help them complete that great idea.

However, since the end of the last 60 minute report of the IMU conference, Perelman has entered a strange state.

If he would have answered their questions patiently before, now he is too lazy to open the door for them.

The vacation time has been exhausted, and there is no way for the two of them to stay here endlessly.

Therefore, after a discussion between the two men who met with each other in St. Petersburg, they finally decided to go back to the United States first and think about the next step.

If it's really not possible, it's not too late to relax the threshold of cooperators, at least let the project go on the right track first, and then recruit new cooperators after making some achievements.

“…… It's a pity that Professor Lu left too early. I think he is actually a little interesting to our plan. " Looking at the waiting hall, Professor Krugman suddenly said with emotion, "if it had not happened, we are trying our best to praise him. Maybe he would have agreed."

"Yes I think so, too, "Albert sighed, raised his hand to look at the time on his watch, and rose from his chair." my flight seems to have arrived Well, I'll take the first step. "

"Take care, email contact."

"Well."

Stanford University is on the west coast of North America, where Albert is a visiting professor at the center for cancer systems biology (CCSB). Krugman's Princeton, on the east coast, is a few time zones away from California.

After the old friend left, Krugman picked up a newspaper from the side, spread it out on his knee, and turned it over.

However, at the first sight of the headline, he was stunned.

“…… Freeze dormancy? "

Changed a newspaper

The headline is the same!

Here, Krugman's expression finally began to become intriguing.

He raised his index finger and pushed down his glasses. He carefully read the headline of the newspaper in his hand. The shock and disbelief in his eyes became more and more obvious. Finally, he could not help muring a sentence in his mouth.

"Here It's crazy. "

Freeze sleep!

Go to the future for treatment!

It's probably the craziest thing he's heard this year!

Before that, he had vaguely heard about the transfer of miss puyoi to China by Lu Zhou, but he had no idea that he was holding this idea.

But

Compared with the current situation of miss puyoi, what matters to him more is the technology of freezing and dormancy.

This reminds him of a paper he wrote a long time ago on the theory of interstellar trade, in which he just casually mentioned that all capital activities are based on the time dimension.

If human beings can "walk upright" on a time scale, the existing financial order will be impacted unprecedentedly, and people will be more inclined to hold long-term and stable income asset varieties, rather than invest in high-risk and high return industries, especially the high-tech industries that have changed from generation to generation in ten years, because time will no longer be an expensive cost, etc The value of waiting will not be worth mentioning

For example, if you deposit 10000 US dollars into the monetary fund, as long as the annual yield can guarantee four points, according to the compound interest calculation, 50 years later, the light interest is more than 60000 US dollars, and the principal plus 70000!

That's seven times more!

If we enlarge the number of principal by a factor of 100, we can extend the time by 50 years

"It's a financial bomb..." Turning the page of the newspaper in his hand, Krugman whispered, "tomorrow's NASDAQ and global bond market performance will be wonderful..."

Maybe it's not just Finance

Its power can no longer be measured by money alone.

The equality between people is based on birth, old age and death. No matter the rich or the poor, the common people or the nobility, they are all doomed to die.

However, the freezing dormancy technology has undoubtedly broken this balance.

Now, the power of life may still be equal. At least the power people have won since the French Revolution has not been overturned, but the power of death is not equalIf we can live in a future utopia with dignity, who is willing to remain in the present and build a utopia?

Some lucky people will step on the first step of eternal life. No matter how far away they are from the second step, the inequality of death will begin to appear in the development of human civilization at this stage.

This seemingly insipid technology, in fact, may have a greater impact on the whole 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 is not a steam engine, or an internal combustion engine or a generator, but printing!

Its birth is paving the way for a great event that will be more far-reaching and powerful than the enlightenment and the French Revolution / destiny. It will not stop until the civilization mastering this technology reaches a balance based on compromise and tolerance in the new equality.

And this process will be difficult and dangerous.

Of course, he also admits that this idea may be too one-sided, and the more affluent people are, the more cautious they are in balancing risk and return.

Thinking from the other side of logic, risking the risk of not waking up to enjoy the uncertain power and assets in the uncertain future, is far better than living in the moment that has already set foot on the peak of life.

After all, even if we put a 19th-century businessman into the 21st century, I'm afraid he will be confused by a variety of financial products and Global trade rules under the new order.

After all, in the era when he lived, the business of all profits was colonial plunder and industrial dumping, but now it is popular to ransack a country's national treasury with only money without a single shot.

Only those who can't afford to buy tickets to the future will come up with the idea of taking a never-ending adventure and looking for opportunities in the new world.

At the same time, consider that survival is the first demand of living things. Even if the technology is not taken out today, someone will open the Pandora's box one day.

It has to be said that this is a very interesting topic.

It's even interesting enough for him to put aside for a while the great and challenging project he's working on.

Thinking of this, Professor Krugman unconsciously held his breath and held the newspaper's index finger and thumb to rub.

He just wants to do one thing now.

That is to go back to my office immediately, clear up the things I think of at the moment, and then sort them out and write them on my paper

No, he can have another title in his lifetime.

For example

The father of the new enlightenment?

It's exciting to think about it.