Liu Lang's humorous speech brought everyone closer, but the conversation changed and he continued.
"But geniuses have their troubles. Others start their academic career from the first grade until they graduate from the twelfth grade and enter college. They have experienced many different periods of study and have many peers. Such a life is perfect, but these are not related to
I have nothing to do with it. Many people think that I don’t need to learn the knowledge of the fourth or fifth grade at all. I can just go directly to college. I did the same, but I didn’t have any friends of the same age when I followed this path. In this regard,
Said, I have lost too much, and it can never be made up for!"
Liu Lang's words made everyone quiet down. Many people felt that Liu Lang was also very sad. When he got the title of genius, he also lost too many things.
"When loneliness strikes, I often think about, what kind of life do I want?"
Liu Lang said this very seriously, which caused a burst of laughter. It was really out of place for an eight-year-old child to talk about loneliness.
Liu Lang also laughed and continued.
"Science has no boundaries, and knowledge is like an ocean; competition in shopping malls is like a battlefield; lifelong learning leads to good management; there is a road to the mountain of learning, and we have to keep climbing; there is no limit to the sea of learning, and we still need to continue to sail; science and technology lead enterprises to open up mountains and pave the way.
This is my philosophy of life."
After these words were spoken, everyone became quiet, savoring the words carefully and feeling endless aftertaste.
"Okay, let's not talk about me personally. Let's talk about the era. This era is the best era and the worst era. After experiencing the agricultural era, the industrial era and the electric power era, human civilization has entered the era at this time.
In another era, it will be the information age dominated by the semiconductor industry. Stanford University is located in Silicon Valley, which is the birthplace of the American information industry. Our university stands in the whirlpool of the information age, the torrent of knowledge.
If it comes out here, it will sweep the entire world in the future.
The impact of the information age on human beings is immeasurable. Human development will enter an unstoppable highway. Each of us will gallop forward on this road without stopping, and the speed will become faster and faster.
Coming faster and faster, our thinking will expand infinitely like the expanding universe.
In the future, powerful space telescopes will present the magnificent universe before our eyes; sophisticated microscopes will reveal the mysterious and unpredictable microscopic quantum world; all of this is beyond the reach of previous eras, and will even subvert us.
The understanding of the macro and micro world further proves the insignificance of our human understanding of the world.
But ignorance is the root of our progress. Because of ignorance, we humans will continue to explore the unknown. Because of ignorance, we humans will have a humble heart. It is also because of ignorance that we humans will run endlessly.
The pace of human progress has no longer stopped at this moment, and science is the driving force for human progress. Here, I boldly predict that within fifteen years, humans will discover the "Higgs particle", and within twenty years,
Within 30 years, gravitational waves will eventually be discovered by humans. Within 30 years, humans will decipher most cancer genes. After 40 years, humans will have the opportunity to defeat most diseases. And after 50 years, human life span will increase to
With an average age of ninety, this is an era that everyone yearns for infinitely!"
Everyone on and off the stage was stunned. Liu Lang's speech made people feel hopeful.
"This is the best of times, but as I said just now, this is also the worst of times. In thirty years, artificial intelligence technology will gradually mature. Because of the powerful computing power of computers, we humans will gradually lose control.
The ability to control the world, whether it is good or bad, cannot be predicted, I
I won’t make predictions here. In short, I am full of confidence in the future era, because it is an era that makes people look forward to, exciting, and full of passion. Our ideas will be as free as technology.
Just like Stanford’s school motto: Let the wind of freedom blow! Thank you everyone!”
At the end of Liu Lang's speech, there was thunderous applause at the venue. His speech was not long, but he made many predictions, such as the Higgs particle, gravitational waves, genetic technology and cancer treatment, which are fundamental to today's science and technology.
Things that cannot be realized, but Liu Lang predicts that they will be realized in forty years.
Forty years may seem like a long time, but in terms of scientific development and even human progress, it is actually a short period of time. Many of you here may have seen the arrival of that era.
Liu Lang walked off the stage and everyone stood up. Liu Donglai and his wife, Wan An, Huo Tianting, Lin Guodong, Ye Jinsheng and other relatives and friends gathered around. This was the second major event in Liu Lang's life. The last time was
He graduated from Huaxia University two years ago.
"Son, you graduated again!"
Liu Donglai patted his son on the shoulder and looked at him and felt that all this was so unreal.
He entered college at the age of three and became the youngest college student in the history of the country. He graduated from college at the age of six. In these short three years, Liu Lang's progress was really like cheating. He experienced things that ordinary people can't even imagine. Eight
Six years later, Liu Lang came to the United States with his family and passed the most rigorous special recruitment interview to become the youngest graduate student in the history of Stanford University.
Just like in China, Liu Lang once again conquered the United States in the past two years and became a well-known figure of the times.
Now, Liu Lang has once again graduated with the best results. No one knows what the future will be like, but everyone believes that this is the beginning of Liu Lang's true glory. Perhaps ten years later, he will become a figure that the times look up to.
, everyone is looking forward to it.
Five days later, Liu Lang accepted an exclusive interview with Time Magazine at Shengtang Company. The host was David Barang, the most famous host of Time Magazine.
Time Magazine is one of the three major current affairs weekly magazines in the United States. Its biggest feature is its authority. Every report pursues maximum truth. The column in which Liu Lang was interviewed is called People of the Times. It mainly introduces the people of the year.
A man of great influence in the United States and even the world.
In the past two decades, only one Chinese person has appeared on the cover of Time magazine at the end of the year, and that was Mr. Deng. He was on the cover of Time magazine when he came back in 1978, which heralded the surrender of a closed China.
There was a glimmer of development. Seven years later, in 1985, Mr. Deng once again appeared on the cover of People of the Times, and the title that time was "The door that has been sealed for a long time has been opened."
"Jimmy, did you know? You are one of the youngest candidates for the cover of Time Magazine. Can you tell me about your life experience?"
The host Balang is already in his fifties, but he is still very cautious when facing Liu Lang. He has long heard that the other party is very eloquent, and he will be at a disadvantage if he is not careful.
"I'm only eight years old, how can I have any life experience?"