Chapter 542: Supporting the Future (Part 1)
People often say that automation is the future. Considering efficiency, confidentiality, and rational calculation results, Lear believes that there is nothing wrong with this statement.
The number of human employees in Atlas Group is actually saturated. The cooperation of AI and senior researchers can easily create a variety of flexible production robots that can replace human employees. It is not easy to gradually completely replace workers on the production line. There are significant technical difficulties, which only consume engineering time.
But Lille has experienced many waves of unemployment. Some people call it technical, some people call it policy, and some people continue to invent new words to describe it, such as "frictional adjustment" , "Employment Transformation Period", "Talent Flow", "Influence of Industrial Upgrading" and so on.
However, large-scale unemployment will bring about many problems. Some people who worked honestly for the first half of their lives suddenly lost their jobs due to financial market fluctuations and had no money for their food, clothing, housing and transportation. In the end, they were bewitched by gangs and became gunmen, and even embraced crime. A common thing.
Lear felt that he could do better when faced with the same situation again -
Brain-computer interface is a very effective auxiliary learning device, and the auxiliary prosthetic body controlled by brain-computer interface is a kind of Very good advanced learning device.
Although even so, the speed for a person to learn something is indeed much slower than directly copying and pasting a machine, but this can also prevent many "good people" from watching the world become Unrecognizable and at a loss.
Of course, this also caused Lille to suffer a lot of criticism -
He can already imagine that many people said that he delayed the development window, maybe because of this meaningless "Holy Mother" This move caused them to lose the "monopoly and anti-monopoly" and "war and anti-war" wars taking place around the world.
However, Lille's attitude towards this is consistent. If you want to win the war, you have to participate, even if it is to be a logistics person, even if it is to complete the work well on the production line far away from the battlefield, even to study hard, or even to use some seemingly innocuous Art in a practical sense is inspiring.
There will always be a group of parasites in this world who want to guide the country and hope that "one of their own" will suddenly develop good things for him to use, win the war for him, and promote his ideas. These people have never been Lille's consideration. within the range.
That’s why two major car companies came to Atlas Group with licking their faces: Roxon has also acquired some car companies, but their plan is to further lay off employees and use comprehensive automated production lines to replace workers. , so there is no need to worry about these two unlucky guys.
As the two oldest car companies in the country, Chrysler and General Motors still have a total of 300,000 employees after experiencing the financial crisis and layoffs. Among them, Chrysler has only 50,000 employees left and is almost on the verge of bankruptcy.
As a traditional automobile manufacturing industry, the two major automobile companies affect both upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain. Assuming that each of their positions indirectly supports 1.5 jobs, including suppliers and logistics companies, this means that there are Four hundred and fifty thousand jobs.
Assuming each employee supports an average family of four in these difficult circumstances, that's 1.8 million people affected.
The living standards of these people will also indirectly affect the industrial status of the service industry, agriculture and light industry. Once a collapse occurs, the reaction will be chain-linked.
But now, the upgraded electric vehicle manufacturing industry can absorb all production lines, and also provides new employment opportunities, including software engineers, battery technology experts and data analysts, as well as corresponding industrial workers.
Due to my own work experience and the help of brain-computer interface, the transformation speed is much faster than directly pulling an old black man from Africa who has not even had compulsory education for education. You must know that the African Union There may be some talents with potential, but with the rapid development, a large amount of investment has been invested in the infrastructure industry, leaving a manpower gap.
Atlas will finance and control the two companies, and properly deploy these personnel, and the African Union will fund the purchase of Detroit city bonds to extend their lives, and the money will be spent again Enter the International Gene Cooperation Company and arrange brain-computer interface medical insurance for them.
The money will flow into Atlas's hands again, part of it will be used for infrastructure construction, and the rest will be used for the production of military equipment, including vehicles, prosthetics, and light weapons.
Just talking about rescuing these two companies and auto manufacturing workers involves more than $21 billion in circulating funds, more than twice the debt Detroit currently owes, and there is obviously subsequent economic growth.
This is the expansion of this round of low-end manufacturing. The total number of employees increased by 300,000, which indirectly stabilized the lives of 1.8 million people.
“Half of Detroit will live because of this!” A politician from the Detroit political scene was so excited that he almost cried. Sometimes he felt like a beggar.
This is the consequence of the imbalance of the social ecological system: if society has no contradictions, it will move forward under a unified will.
How can an entity whose existence depends on contradictions possibly live well?
Detroit bet on cars, lost diversity, and enjoyed it. Now it has truly become a beggar. Others still have a chance to save themselves. They can't even pay city workers' wages.
The politician grabbed Lille's hand and looked like he was about to kiss it.
"This" Lille pulled away his hand without leaving a trace and turned on the projection, "is the future production line I hope to build."
The projection will be transformed through the glasses on the guests' heads. It is a holographic projection, and the appearance of the future production line is shown in all directions in the exhibition area. Workers using brain-computer interfaces, remotely controlled production equipment and real-time AI assistance, as well as some mysterious assistive robots.
The politicians and the managers of the two car companies paused, looking away from Lear and looking at the holographic projection.
This projection thoughtfully adds the function of clicking on something you don’t know. It is a scene display and scene teaching.
After finishing this, Lille headed to the next exhibition area.
The manufacturing industry is often connected, especially the automobile manufacturing industry, so the production line is not only automobile assembly, but also includes emerging manufacturing industries such as prosthetics and graphene batteries.
This involves another high-end manufacturing product that will generate a lot of demand-
chips.
The chip used in the brain-computer interface is completely a three-dimensional stacked chip designed by Lille based on the benchmark chip it came into contact with in the cyberpunk world. On the other hand, it is a basic technology and a product with overcapacity. On the market It's everywhere.
But here, in 2009, the chip industry mainly refers to traditional CPU manufacturers including Samsung Electronics and Intel. They are large and basically monopolistic. More importantly, they have basically After joining Roxon's military industrial group, a large amount of production capacity was supplied to military industrial companies like Stark.
But that’s not the problem.
In terms of architecture, traditional CPU architecture is more suitable for sequential processing, and its application is more in line with the single-threaded thinking of humans using tools.
The brain-computer interface needs to process a large number of bioelectrical signals. This information has nothing to do with human thinking, and its complexity is far beyond imagination. Therefore, a three-dimensional stacking design and a special ternary encoding scheme have been developed. What is needed is to have Multi-threaded computing chip with ultra-multi-stream processor.
And AI also has the same characteristics and is not suitable for mounting on traditional CPUs. This just bypasses the traditional CPU manufacturing field and provides a new track.
It just so happens that the companies on this track can only be regarded as small businesses at this moment, and they can easily merge and reorganize related companies that have just started.
These start-up companies have no choice. If Roxon and traditional CPU companies reach the same front, they will naturally transfer orders for Cyber Technology's version of brain-computer interface chips to these companies, giving them room for survival. Getting smaller and smaller, if they can't hold onto Lille's lap, they will have to start preparing to rewrite their resumes.
Packaged mergers and acquisitions involve a total increase of 17,000 direct employees, production line changes and brain-computer interface implantation requiring an investment of US$1.6 billion. Direct mergers and acquisitions cost US$8 billion, an investment of nearly 10 billion.
Among the companies that were acquired, there was XMSC, the company that Lille commissioned for chip production for the first time, but the representative was no longer the former Mr. Wang.
This time, a young man came, also named Wang. However, the two did not have a clearly registered legal relationship. They seemed to be an unregistered adoptive father and son.
Looking at the second version of the brain-computer interface chip that Lille had perfected in the holographic projection, he acted a little depressed.
Seeing this, Lille asked: "Where is Mr. Wang?"
The young man seemed to be a little surprised when he came to his senses. After all, this was the first time Lille took the initiative to talk to someone tonight, and the conversation was not just about business.
"The plane crashed, and my uncle's family was unfortunately killed."
Liel nodded slightly. Crashes seemed to be more common among Roxon's opponents.
After checking, there was also a member of the Berry National Congress on the crashed flight.
He patted the young man on the shoulder: "Do a good job."
"Okay."
(End of this chapter)