Chapter 1080

On the outskirts of Boston lies a research institute covering an area of more than 100 mu.

The Institute was originally a joint venture of MIT, controlled by a pharmaceutical company with a market value of about $2 billion.

Up to last year, the research direction here has mainly focused on the research of clinical biology.

Now, however, it has been given a new mission by the first National Bank of Boston, which acquired it. All the research has turned to the research of human cryodormancy technology, and the famous charity Cancer Medicine Research Fund has invested a billion dollars as funds, aiming to send those terminally ill patients who cannot be properly treated in this century to be cured The more their future.

Now, the Institute of cryobiology is managed by space-x and has been merged with space-x's frozen dormancy lab.

The reason for such a smooth cooperation is that the two sides have the same demands for the freezing dormancy technology, only one is in the direction of space and the other is in the direction of medical treatment.

As for another reason

Naturally, both have a common owner, David Lawrence, the young leader of the Boston syndicate.

It's not just the Institute of cryobiology.

Now most of space-x's projects, as long as he is optimistic about them, he has invested in them, even though many of them are not so profitable

Now, in the cryobiology lab.

A huge cylindrical dish sits in the middle of two computers and is connected by various pipelines. In the middle of the dish lies a monkey for experiment. If it's not the beating line on the ECG, just look outside and don't know whether it's alive or dead.

'David Lawrence asked after staring at the monkey for a long time.

"How is the research going?"

Standing next to him, musk said with a smile: "so far, it has been quite smooth. At the hearing, the legislators who have a good relationship with us convinced the Congressional Budget Committee that freezing dormancy technology is an essential part of space colonization, especially for the exploration of distant galaxy colonization. This enabled us to successfully get an order from NASA -- "

" you know I don't care about that. "

Looking at the dish not far away, and the experimental monkey floating in it, the eyes are like staring at something far away, David Lawrence said in a casual tone, "I have a lot of money, I don't care how much you can make with this thing, I only care whether you can complete my plan."

Looking at Lawrence's back, musk involuntarily swallowed.

After a long silence, he tried to calm himself down from the tension and said with a relaxed brow.

"I understand, Mr. Lawrence, who is rich In fact, I don't care about money. It's a pleasure to be able to realize my childhood dream. Just to make it come true, we have to seek the help of those who have the ability. "

Lawrence nodded his head gently: "if NASA has the resources you need, I don't hate you to do so, but I hope you don't put the cart before the horse. I don't care if it can save a few poor people's poor lives, but this technology is very important to me, I need it, that's it. "

Musk nodded respectfully.

"I understand."

Although he is a new star in Silicon Valley's scientific and technological field, and has been named "Iron Man" by countless people, and a series of titles such as "giant of future technology industry", he knows that in front of those old Wall Street financial giants, no matter he or those Internet tycoons who have become giants, they are not worth mentioning at all.

Their wealth is accumulated by the century. Even the federal tax office doesn't know how rich they are.

And the connections that are rooted in the entire financial system

Mastering these things is sometimes more terrifying than simply having money.

Looking at the monkey floating in the cultivation of Fujian, Lawrence was silent for a while, and suddenly said.

"To say the least, I have another thing to care about."

Musk asked immediately.

"What is it?"

"About your little company called neurolink, and the project called" neural lace, "Lawrence looked at musk from the Petri dish and asked with interest," I want to know how it's going now? "

Nerve lace, also known as neura lace, is a technology that drills nanowires into the brain to make contact with external electrodes.

Based on this technology, users will be able to transmit signals through external electrodes, so as to operate a series of electronic devices, including mobile phones, computers, etc., and even project consciousness directly into the Internet to interact with people thousands of miles away face-to-face.Similar technologies have been developed for a long time, but they have only recently begun to catch on again.

"Some progress has been made But it's not that big compared to two years ago, "explains dundayton musk." there's no doubt about the technical feasibility of building brain computer interface through nanowires, which we have confirmed before. However, the problem is that even if we have done enough fine neural lace, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not cause permanent damage to the brain... "

After listening to Musk's explanation, Lawrence nodded, and the expression on his face seemed to be thinking about something.

Just as musk was wondering why this guy suddenly thought of his investment in neuralink, Lawrence suddenly continued to ask.

"If in the frozen dormancy state, only the body is dormant, not the brain Or is it possible in theory to sleep only a part of the brain and make sure that the other half who can form a dream is awake? "

Musk was slightly stunned, and his pupils contracted instantly.

"You mean..."

"It seems you've guessed," Lawrence smiled, raised his chin slightly, pointed to the monkey in the Petri dish not far away. "I wonder if I can use 'that thing' in a dormant state?"

“…… Well, I don't know, "Musk shook his head," It's not my major, and it's irresponsible to conclude at will about a technology that hasn't been born yet. "

"But if we only speculate theoretically," he continued after a pause, "if we want to keep part of the brain, we may have to not only implant brain computer interface in the brain, but also implant nutrition interface to input oxygen and nutrients from the outside to maintain the survival of the brain."

Lawrence: so it's still possible in theory

When he saw it, musk couldn't help holding his breath.

He thought that his imagination had gone far enough, but he didn't expect someone to be more crazy than himself.

"The weak body is just a burden, the spirit - or the consciousness is the root of being human, I thought you would agree with me." seeing musk for a long time without speaking, Lawrence's face showed a trace of disappointment that he didn't know whether it was true or not, he continued with a smile. "But it doesn't matter, you are just a passer-by of this era, you just need to follow my words Just do it. "

At this time, the secretary who was standing by suddenly came over with his cell phone and whispered a few words to Lawrence.

There was a look of surprise on her face. Lawrence looked at the things on the screen of her mobile phone, raised her eyebrows slightly, and said in a voice of interest.

"Something interesting seems to have happened."

After returning from his stupidity, musk frowned and immediately asked, "what's the matter..."

Lawrence said with a relaxed smile: "the mobile phone is on you. The first hot topic of Twitter is that you should be able to play these things better than me. Why don't you have a look?"

Without any pause, musk immediately took his mobile phone out of his pocket and cut it to twitter app.

However, in the moment when the line of sight contacts the screen

His heart beat almost stopped.

[Jinling Institute of higher learning has completed the neural access virtual reality technology to realize the seamless connection between non-invasive nervous system and computer system! ]

[star technology raises virtual reality system sealed test experimenter for the global public! ]

seeing these two lines, musk almost didn't have an old blood spray.

Do it!

Star Technology!

What the hell is that again?