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Chapter 429 [Crossing the border into the field of life science? 】

The next guest on stage was one of the Silicon Valley celebrities who were accused of in the opening speech, Google founder Larry Page.

Page gave a speech on the podium without any manuscript, responded to Karavald's criticism and gave his own solution to repair the Internet.

Well, the boss directly "wired" Karavald on the spot.

Page's core idea includes two points: First, use new technologies to solve existing technical problems, such as using algorithms to find illegal remarks, and delete them after manual confirmation. Second, by redesigning the product to encourage meaningful dialogue, Google and mit Media Lab cooperated to redefine meaningful online dialogue, and finally found four dimensions, including "Is there an intersection between the two parties' communication? Is it based on the same facts? Do you know the existence of different opinions? Is it open and polite?"

However, Page's reply did not satisfy critics, just as Caravald's judgment also made many tech giants feel inexplicable.

But it is the significance of the ted conference, which puts people with different opinions on the same occasion, prompts the formation of dialogue, and then finds solutions to the problem.

The first day of the conference was full of gunpowder. People including journalists, Zhengzhi consultants and technology experts discussed together how to face the problems caused by the Internet and how to have dialogues under the opposition of opinions.

Larry Page's speech lasted for more than six minutes on stage and ended.

The male and female hosts who hosted the conference said in bilingual Chinese and English: "Ladies and gentlemen, please give me a round of applause from Mr. Luo Sheng, the founder of the Costa del Blue and Blue Star Technology Group."

As early as two minutes ago, the staff at the scene had contacted Luo Sheng privately, and he had left the seat in the main section of the audience.

After a while, amid the applause, the audience in the audience looked at the young world's richest man pushing a large iron bucket onto the podium with a look of surprise.

What the hell?

Everyone has no idea about this strange operation of the richest man in the world today, and their curiosity has also come.

Luo Sheng glanced at the iron bucket he pushed to the podium, clapped his hands and said, "When my parents were children, the disaster that people were most worried about at that time was nuclear war, so we had such iron buckets in the basement in the cellar, which were used to store food to ensure that when the nuclear war broke out, we could hide in the basement and rely on this food to survive."

When many domestic people heard this, they immediately thought of some historical marks: digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and building embankments.

Although Luo Sheng can speak fluent English, he speaks in his native language in the mainland, and the audiences on site have professional instant manual translators.

He faced the audience and said: "The most dangerous thing in the world of contemporary global disasters no longer looks like this, but this kind of thing."

While he was speaking, two pictures passed by the huge screen at the conference. The first picture was a huge nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, and the second picture was a microbial virus that was invisible to the naked eye.

Luo Sheng: "If there is something that can kill thousands of humans in the next few decades, then the more likely thing is a highly contagious biological virus, rather than a war. Part of the reason is that humans have invested a lot of energy and financial resources in nuclear deterrence, but we have invested very little in the system to prevent the epidemic, and the whole world has not done a good job in preventing the next major epidemic."

The elites at the meeting suddenly seemed particularly surprised. They thought Luo Sheng would take the stage to speak about consumer electronics products or Internet technology, but they never expected that he would speak about life sciences.

Suddenly, a thought arose in people. Has Luo Sheng made a new move?

Is this related to life sciences?

Indeed, all the approval documents of the p4 laboratory have been obtained. Luo Sheng’s preparation today is to warm up the next layout work.

After a moment, Luo Sheng on the podium recalled an image and continued: "Let's take a look at the Ebola virus first. I believe everyone has read such news in newspapers or in the Internet media. It is full of many difficult challenges. Use our case analysis tool to track polio to carefully track the development of these viruses."

"As the epidemic develops, we can see that the problem is not that we do not have a system that can be used, but that there is no system in the world at all. We can see that there are several obvious shortcomings. We cannot find a group of epidemic virologists who are ready to go to the epidemic area to see the pathology and disease development."

"Pathology is all uploaded from news reports. Basically, the time for uploading information has been delayed very late. In addition, it is still very uncertain. We can't find many well-trained medical teams, and we don't have a way to keep people on guard."

"At present, 'MSF' has made great contributions to mobilizing volunteers, which needs to be confirmed. But even so, the speed at which we mobilize thousands of workers to the epidemic areas is still very disappointing, and the large epidemic even requires us to mobilize hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in a super-large scale."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng paused for a moment, paced back and forth on the podium, and continued to talk after a while:

"No one is looking at the direction of researching data, no one is looking at the diagnosis method, and no one is thinking about what tools to use. For example, we may be able to extract blood from survivors, process it, and inject plasma into the human body to protect people who are not sick, but no one has tried this method. What's even more frustrating is that it's too late to do many things before they can do it. This is indeed a global failure of all human beings."

"The purpose of the World Health Organization is to monitor the epidemic virus rather than do what I just said, but the plot in the movie is another matter. A group of handsome and beautiful epidemiologists are ready to go to the epidemic area to save everyone affected and become heroes, but this is a purely Hollywood-style happy ending."

The audience saw a poster of a science fiction disaster movie released on the giant screen. The handsome and beautiful male and female protagonists looked solemn, but it made the audience burst into laughter.

The audience quickly calmed down. After a moment, Luo Sheng said seriously and focusedly: "Our lack of preparation may lead to the next epidemic being more serious than the Ebola virus. So let's take a look at the development of Ebola virus in the West African region in the past year."

Before the big screen was finished, a visual dynamic data evolution model was immediately displayed, and Luo Sheng continued: "...about 10,000 people died, and all the dead were in the three countries of West Africa. I think there are three reasons why they did not spread out."

"The first reason is that the health staff have done many heroic deeds. They have found many patients and prevented more people from getting sick. The second reason is the characteristics of the virus. Ebola virus is not transmitted by air. When the transmitter has enough contagion, most people are already ill. The third reason is that the virus has not spread to the metropolis."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng faced everyone with a serious expression, and the conference scene was also quiet, with only his voice.

"To be honest, it's really a pure luck to not break out in the Metropolis. If the Ebola virus spreads to a densely populated super metropolis of tens of millions, I really don't dare to imagine what a terrible disaster that would be."

"So we may not be so lucky next time. Some viruses may leave you unaware of them, but when people infected with the virus take transportation, or go to densely populated areas such as shopping malls and places with large flow, they actually have a certain degree of contagion."

"In addition, the source of the virus can be natural, such as Ebola virus, or it is caused by biological terrorist attacks, or it is in contact with wild animals, so viruses that can cause the epidemic to be thousands of times worse exist on the planet we live in."

"We will know when we look at a mathematical model of viruses being transmitted by air."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng looked back at the giant screen and introduced: "This is the Western Extract influenza in 1918. The virus will spread to all corners of the world at a very fast speed. A total of 30 million people worldwide die from this virus."

Luo Sheng turned around and faced the audience again: "This is a very serious problem. We should never ignore it. We can actually build a good reaction system. We can use all the science and technology that has developed to this day. We can use mobile phones to collect information and publish information. We also have satellite maps to see where people are and where they move."

"At the same time, we have made great progress in biology, which can greatly shorten the time we find pathogens and can develop antidotes and vaccines in a very short time, so we have tools."

"We need to do a lot of research and development in vaccines and pathology. I am very happy to contribute my strength in this field as much as possible. At the same time, I also call on technology companies, research institutions and wealthy people around the world to pay attention to this field and actively invest in this field. I do not have a clear budget for how much it will cost, but I am sure this is quite cheap compared to the potential losses caused."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng retried a statistical report.

"According to the World Bank's estimates, if we have an outbreak of flu, the global economy will lose more than $3 trillion, and there will be thousands of casualties and injuries. Compared with just being prepared, these additional investments will undoubtedly bring significant benefits."

"Basic health care, R&D, can promote the balanced development of global health and make our world healthier and safer, so I think this is very important and urgent, but there is no need to panic too much. We don't need to stockpile a lot of food and hide in the basement, but we have to catch up because time is limited."

"If there is any positive feedback on the outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic, it is to sound an early warning to all mankind to awaken and prepare. If we can start preparing, then we can be prepared when the next epidemic comes. Thank you everyone."

Luo Sheng's speech lasted for less than ten minutes and ended. As he walked off the podium, there was also warm applause on the scene. The staff quietly moved the iron bucket he pushed from him away from the stage.

Luo Sheng's appeal has also attracted the attention of many people, especially those in the capital circle.

Many people secretly speculate that the world's richest man may have to play new tricks again, otherwise it would be impossible to give this speech for no reason at the TE Conference. What is even more interesting is that this is very span of Luo Sheng's usual business.

This is from the Internet and ICT field to the life science field. The cross-border is not ordinary, and Luo Sheng always said that he wanted to make great progress in the life science field in his speech.

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