Chapter 772 The big guys in the industry gather together
Liu Lang specifically asked who these people were, and heard several familiar names, including Mr. Wan'an, the boss of Wan'an Company, John Akers, the president of IBM, Steve Jobs, the founder of the software company, and Microsoft.
Bill Gates, the founder, and Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Software.
Even though Liu Lang didn't know much about computers in his previous life, he had heard of the names of four of these five people. Naturally, Wan An didn't need to mention them. He would definitely come to support them in person.
Not to mention Jobs, his Apple mobile phone will change the world twenty years later. However, things have not been going well for him in the past few years. He was kicked out of the Apple company he founded two years ago, and then established a software company. According to
In normal historical development, he would spend 10 million US dollars to buy it
Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic Company, but this time Liu Lang took the lead, and Industrial Light and Magic became part of Shengtang Company. I don't know what impact this change will have on Jobs' future, and whether it will still allow him to become the person who changes the world.
Gang Leader Qiao", Liu Lang won't care about it anyway.
That Bill Gates is more famous than Steve Jobs, and he has been the richest man in the world for many years. If Apple has changed the world with smartphones, then its Windows software has also done the same, but that was in his previous life. In this life, he
I'm afraid my achievements won't be that high.
Because his achievements were built on the decline of Wan'an and IBM, but now Wan'an's WPS system is so popular that it has completely suppressed his WORD word processing software. There is such a big mountain on his head.
It’s not certain whether we can carry it through.
Along with Microsoft, Intel was also "implicated". In its previous life, their chip technology was number one in the world. If a computer did not have Intel software installed, the computer would never be sold.
Yes, they have joined forces with Microsoft to build the whole world into the world they want, and their impact on the world is immeasurable. But in this world, Wan'an Gong
The Si family has done everything, and the powerful functions of the "Pentium 3" chip have always suppressed Intel, and Gordon Moore is the proposer of the famous "Moore's Law", but you proposed "Moore's Law" is not
It means that you are the top expert in this industry. Even if you are an expert, your company may not be the top, at least in this life.
Liu Lang almost laughed out loud when he heard this list. In addition to Wan'an Company, IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Jobs were all his enemies. Wan'an Company was the main sufferer of these three companies, and Jobs' path was blocked by Liu Lang.
Lang has blocked a road. They are unlucky in this life, and they may not have the same scenery as in the previous life.
Of course, these companies are now representatives of emerging industries in the United States. The U.S. government attaches great importance to them. As one of the most famous economists in the country, Wilson also met them, but it was just an acquaintance. He just extended an invitation.
I dare not say whether he can respond or not. If they don't come, Liu Lang will have to support the scene by himself.
Ten days later, a book signing for "Digital Survival" was held in the New York Library. The scale was not large. More than fifty people came, but half of them were journalists. More than twenty people, but most of them were from entertainment stations.
Reporters were all curious. An entertainment tycoon who was rising in Hollywood actually crossed over to another industry to write a book. No one could understand what he wrote. What on earth was he going to do?
This makes Professor Wilson a little embarrassed, but this can be regarded as an alternative way of publicity.
But there was still one thing that surprised Professor Wilson, that is, he saw Wan An, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Gordon Moore among the more than 60 friends who came to support him. Guaiguai, in addition to IBM Computer Company,
These four big names in the computer industry are all here. Do you have such a big reputation? You shouldn't! I am just a nod to them, and I only sent the invitation letter with the idea of giving it a try.
In fact, this time Wilson also invited some friends, most of whom were experts in the economic field, about a dozen people, but their understanding of the book "Digital Survival" was similar to that of Professor Wilson, and they were all confused.
Because of this, Wilson didn't invite more people. No matter how famous he was, he couldn't force people to come. People came to support him more because of Wilson's face. If ordinary friends invited him, basically no one would pay attention: Mom
Yes, what are these things written about...?
Now, several "big guys" in the computer industry have appeared at this signing event. It is really beyond Wilson's expectation. His face should not be enough to make these people come all the way. The only reason is that Liu Lang
This book worked.
Could it be...that this book is really that magical?
Wilson now had some expectations in his heart.
Liu Lang also saw these "big guys". No, the only big boss among them was Wan An, and the others were just rookies.
It is not a disparagement to say that they are rookies. When Jobs founded Apple, he was once famous and was called the man who "changed the industry." He was the most promising to break the monopoly of the two computer companies in the United States, Macron and IBM. Although this
A monopoly is only a market size of 10,000 computers.
From the time Apple went public in 1980 to today eight years later, the company that had a market capitalization of over US$200 million at its peak is now worth less than US$100 million. This was even when the personal computer business began to gain popularity last year.
Otherwise, 70 million is not certain. Even if the market is good, Jobs himself angered the entire board of directors because of his unqualified emotional intelligence two years ago. As a result, he, the founder of the company, was the first to be expelled from Apple.
He became a lonely man who was separated from his relatives.
Bill Gates and Moore are better off, at least there are no problems in their respective companies, but the saying that you have to become famous as early as possible is obviously no longer suitable for them. With the mountain of Wan'an weighing on their heads, the two companies want to
It's hard to get ahead.
The few of them who came in person were obviously attracted by the content of the book "Digital Survival". In this era, they are the only people in the entire United States and even the entire world who can understand the contents of the book to a certain extent, but Liu Lang believes them
It can only be understood a little bit, and the limitations of the times also play a role in them.
You must know that in the previous life, this book officially appeared in 1994, and it attracted widespread attention after it appeared, because at that time, the concept of the Internet had already appeared in the United States, and the terms informatization and digitization began to gradually appear in the United States.
Even so, a considerable number of people do not believe the prophecies in the book. Of course, there are also many people who firmly stand by the book. Among them are the earliest people in China who are exposed to the Internet.
Many of them later became pioneers in China's Internet industry.
That was in 1994, and now it is 1988, a full seven years earlier. Things like the Internet still exist in laboratories, and their names are still called ARPANET. The word "I" has not yet officially appeared.
No, it has already appeared, in the book "Digital Survival".
In an era when even a unique vocabulary was not known, Liu Lang came out of the blue and proposed a view of time based on this. This cannot be said to be a prophecy, but it should be classified into the category of fantasy. This
That is to say, Professor Wilson and Liu Lang had a happy cooperation before, otherwise he would not have published this book.