A Buick car costs ten thousand dollars per person. This price is mid-range in the United States. An ordinary new car can be bought for five to six thousand dollars. Moreover, the Buick company's dealer is on site and counts people on the spot. When the number of people comes out, Liu Lang signs it.
Checks, if you don’t want a car, just one check per person, which can be exchanged at any time.
Even though Liu Lang lost more than one million, this marketing plan was very successful, and the subsequent value it brought was much more than this one million.
Liu Lang and Shengtang once again became the focus of American entertainment. This was in the 1990s. If it were twenty years later, Liu Lang would be at the top of the hot search rankings.
The day after Liu Lang finished recording the show, Professor Wilson, a professor at Harvard University and a famous American economist, brought his right-hand assistant Louis Wang to Los Angeles and met Liu Lang in a stylish room of Shengtang Company.
Lang.
Santon's office building located near Fifth Avenue was ranked No. 1 in the United States as the most comfortable office space by American Style Magazine last year.
General companies are composed of many departments, and there is little contact between each department. Even in an office building, many people do not know each other, but Shengtang Company is different. There is a huge public space. This space
There are KFC, water bars and other food outlets, and the design of this space is very unique. It doesn't look like a company at all, but more like an amusement park.
The chairs you sit on are made of wood, much like pieces of old tree stumps. Many of the chairs have been converted into swings, which are very comfortable to swing around. In addition, some areas have been transformed into theme parks, with large wooden Transformers.
It was placed there, and it was changed after a few days. Many Marvel hero images were also invited in, and these images were completely different from those in Marvel comics. They were all designed by Liu Lang based on the images twenty years later. It was very
It has a futuristic feel.
Shengtang Company has even set up an independent department called the Public Area Design Department, which is responsible for designing large public spaces in different styles. New elements are added every once in a while. With this public space, Shengtang
Employees often gather here during breaks, drinking drinks and chatting, which can also promote relationships between people.
The design style of Shengtang Company is the first in the United States, and even the Disney Company, which is famous for its childlike innocence, cannot compare. Now many companies have begun to imitate the design style of Shengtang Company.
Professor Wilson and Liu Lang were sitting on both sides of an old wooden block that was "covered with starch". There was a Go board painted on the wooden block. If Liu Lang were sitting in front of him wearing a robe, it would be a scene of ancient idlers playing chess.
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This area is a lounge specially designed by Shengtang Company for Chinese people. People usually play Go here.
"Jimmy, you are in the limelight now. You have given away more than one million in one go. Good guy, you are really rich!"
Professor Wilson took a sip of tea, and a strong aroma filled his body. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly drank two more sips.
"Professor, did you ask me to make an appointment again this time?"
"Smart, yes, that's what I did for this. Now your "Digital Survival" has a best-selling trend. It has sold more than 80,000 copies from the beginning of this year to now, especially in the past three months, a total of 50,000 copies have been sold.
This volume has been very well received by readers. It seems that it will not be long before this book becomes as popular in the United States as "The Third Industrial Wave". Three years have passed in a blink of an eye. You have been in China for such a long time and have you written this book?
Without songs and scripts, wouldn’t there be no books written?”
Professor Wilson knew Liu Lang's ability. He stayed in China for three years and wrote a few songs and several scripts in three years? Wilson didn't believe it. He felt that Liu Lang must have written a lot of good things in such a long time.
, this guy wrote best-selling books, and gained both fame and fortune after publishing them.
"Professor, you still know me. Yes, I have indeed written a lot of things. One of them is a book that I personally think is very good. It is a supplement to the book "Digital Survival". You can publish it!"
Liu Lang smiled and replied.
"Haha, I know it, I know it, take it out quickly and let me see the manuscript."
Professor Wilson laughed loudly. Liu Lang's previous two books had made him millions of dollars, and it seemed that he was now "taking money" again.
The book Liu Lang wrote in Fucheng is called "Out of Control", and its full name is "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Society and Economy".
Kelly, the author of this book, is a famous writer in the United States. He is particularly sensitive to computers. In his previous life, Kelly wrote this book in 1995. You can tell by looking at the name that the book discusses
How will human society and humanity itself develop when computers are powerful? This book
It is very prophetic and very famous. Later movies such as "The Matrix" were inspired by this book, and the accuracy of the future predictions in the book gradually became apparent over time. Many IT
"Big guys" all highly recommend this book, and it is a masterpiece besides "Digital Survival".
The book "Digital Survival" mainly talks about the fact that human society will inevitably enter the Internet era, and everyone's life is inseparable from the Internet. The book "Out of Control" talks about the negative impact of machines on human beings.
This kind of negative impact is not an accident like a car accident, but a ubiquitous impact that can change the course of human development. It is like taking medicine when humans are sick, but no matter how effective the medicine is, it still has side effects on the human body.
, it’s just that the positive effects of drugs outweigh the negative effects, but when the negative effects outweigh the positive effects, what should humans do?
For example, as humans become more and more dependent on computers, the performance of computers becomes more and more powerful, powerful enough to understand human meanings and do things according to human thoughts. This is of course a good thing, but when computers always have enough
After becoming intelligent, will they replace humans?
This is what the Terminator directed by Cameron back then expressed this meaning. The Americans were confident that they had mastered Skynet, which could stop any strategic weapon. However, they did not expect that Skynet already had self-awareness. The moment Skynet was activated,
The United States' nuclear weapons will be launched, and then the world will be over. "Out of Control" is about this possibility.
The original version of "Out of Control" has more than 500,000 words. Liu Lang didn't write that many, just a few hundred thousand words. However, Liu Lang's book is more direct to the fundamentals and is much more refined than the original version. What's more important is that Liu Lang is
Having personally experienced that era, he knew that more than 20 years later, the human community would be more concerned about things. These were things that Kelly could not do. If Kelly was the prophecy, then Liu Lang was the one who asserted it.