Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian thought of a project in the mit Institute of Technology that he had funded almost seven or eight years ago, electronic ink, or eink.Such a project, specifically, is actually researching such a liquid crystal display technology that the screen is fixed after one refresh, as clear as a paper book and has not been refreshed.Ordinary LCD screens, when the power is turned on, the liquid crystal crystal inside can change the direction of the crystal according to the requirements. Anyway, it means that to keep the things displayed on the screen, it must consume power. If the power is turned off, the screen will be blacken!So if you say that the power consumption of the LCD screen is such a reason.But what about electronic ink or e-paper books, that is, after the first power-on, the stuff in the screen will display the corresponding text or pictures, and it will not change after the power is turned off!Then turn on the power again when it needs to be changed, and this will change!So such a thing as an electronic paper book, it really saves electricity!But this thing also has a tragedy, you can't use the backlight!

What is backlight?It's the thing that makes the LCD screen light up!To put it bluntly, an LCD screen without a backlight is just like the LCD screen on an ordinary calculator, the screen is not whitish or glowing at all!It is completely invisible in the dark!As for the backlight, a group of LED light bulbs is added behind the LCD screen, and the light is transmitted from the back of the LCD screen to the front, thereby "lighting" the screen.The principle of such a technology is that liquid crystals become opaque when they are powered on, but they are transparent when they are connected to electricity.To display things on the screen, there must be some places that display and some places do not display, so the backlight can shine through from places that are not powered.It appears that the entire screen lights up!But electronic paper books or electronic ink are not enough, why?Because in simple terms, this thing is equivalent to filling a swimming pool with small balls, one kind of small ball is white and the other kind of small ball is black, and usually white balls may float on the "water surface" , Through electrification and other technologies, the small black balls at the corresponding points can float up and the small white balls sink. In this way, won’t there be patterns or words composed of black balls on the water surface?And isn't there a white ball under each black ball?And aren't there many white balls beside the black balls on the water surface?What if the light shines up from the bottom of the pool?The black and white balls on the water surface and the black and white balls under the water will block the light!

Over the years, Jia Hongjian has been paying attention to such a technology.Then at the end of last year.This technology has basically been finalized, and there is almost nothing left after the refresh. It can be said that it can be put into commercial use after a period of improvement.Jia Hongjian was busy at that time, so he didn't have time to take care of this matter.And now if you think about it carefully.Historically, an American shopping site like Amazon withdrew from an e-book reader like Kindle at the end of 07!Jia Hongjian still bought it in history.It's really nice to use in the sun.It doesn't hurt the eyes at all, and the effect is really comparable to that of paper books!But the problem is... this thing really has no backlight, and the screen is too easy to break!It is easier to break than the mobile phone screen of later generations!And the most fucking thing is that the broken screen is no longer covered by the warranty.There is not even a broken screen insurance, once it is broken, you can only spend your own money to replace it!With this in mind, Jia Hongjian was not in a hurry to publish e-books at the time, and based on the historical sales of e-books, he did not expect this thing to be a hit all over the world, so he thought more about publishing e-books. The electronic paper book has become a commercial electronic signboard!Especially after the problem of backlight can be solved, how much power can be saved if this is to be made into an electronic signboard?How useful is this for merchants?So after 2000, he gave up the idea of ​​using electronic paper books to reduce the price of American textbooks, and instead thought about using electronic paper books to make commercial billboards and the like!Then in such a year, haven't we basically developed such a thing as a tablet?As for such a thing as a tablet, according to the development of later generations, some Chinese schools regard the tablet as a necessary teaching item for everyone!Then students can take the tablet to school, and all the textbooks can be placed in the tablet!If only the digital version of this textbook...wouldn't the price be much cheaper?

So at this time, Jia Hongjian really thought this thing was a good idea!He, Jia Hongjian, is now overturning the table and shuffling the cards. He is already addicted to it. It’s okay to drive all kinds of powerful giants to the end one by one, making them miserable. No matter how they feel, there is a kind of representative It represents advanced productivity, represents the development direction of the world, and represents the moon to punish those who lag behind!Speaking of this thing, I really feel a bit like beating the local tyrants to divide the land. Seeing such a group of big bosses who used to ride on everyone's heads and domineering, are now being trampled under everyone's feet, this feeling is absolutely cool!So when he thought of this, he directly said to Murdoch, "Rupert, I've made up my bet. If our design is good, then you... help me to overthrow the current textbook system in the United States." Vested interests here, let us smash such an old era and build a brand new new era!"

"What?" When Murdoch watched Jia Hongjian pondering, he thought it was amused.According to his thinking, out of the 60 billion people in the world, how come there must be 59.9 billion people who can gamble with Murdoch, so why don't you rush to make a bet without thinking about it?In the end, Jia Hongjian was so happy that he still thought about it!But who knew that after the other party finished thinking and let Murdoch hear Jia Hongjian's bet and request, the old Mo was stunned at that time!He even couldn't help wondering, was it because he, Mo, couldn't hear clearly just now?What did this kid say just now?To overthrow the American textbook system?real or fake?Just when Lao Mo was so surprised, Jia Hongjian nodded, "I said if you lose, we will overthrow the American textbook system together! Let's bring cheaper textbooks to the public!"

Fuck!These two words were the only feeling Murdoch had at the time!What caused Lao Mo to lose his composure?The main reason is that no one has ever thought of subverting such a textbook system in the United States!Even if someone wanted to, no one succeeded!In such a year, the textbook system in the United States is already a huge vested interest group. It can be said that it is a bit like the military-industrial weapons group in the United States. The giants of these textbook systems are also constantly throwing money to Congress to control Politicians protect the way textbook giants make money!Just like the commercial medical insurance in the United States, everyone knows that this thing is a mess, but no one can come out to change it!

In the United States, ordinary people have to pay various commercial medical insurance every month. After paying the money, they can only get reimbursed when they go to the hospital designated by the insurance company to see a doctor.It seems to be similar to China, but the problem is that the medical insurance in the United States has been developed for decades, and it has become a money game. Because the hospital knows that it is not the people who pay the money in the end, but the insurance company, so almost all All the hospitals in the world are charging high prices!Is it a market economy?Can't people charge high prices?Then the hospital charged a high price, and the insurance company is not stupid. Of course, there are special personnel to negotiate with the hospital.The hospital asks a lot of prices, and the insurance company pays back the money.Then such a result becomes that if a person does not have medical insurance in the United States, it becomes impossible to get sick!Likely to go to the dentist to see a tooth, and then buy a toothbrush at the dentist for a fucking hundred dollars!$100 for a toothbrush!Then break a bone or something, maybe a few thousand dollars will go out directly!

People in the United States are not rich. Even based on the median income, the annual income of a family of four is only about US$5, which is an average of US$4000 a month, right?This is still a family of four, father, mother and two children, and if one person has a fracture and no one in the family has medical insurance, half or even more than half of the monthly income will be lost!It is important to know that Americans do not have the habit of saving much, and only less than half of them can take out an emergency fund of more than $500!Now half of the monthly salary is gone. Don't let the whole family sleep on the street?Of course, half of the people who can work will try to buy medical insurance, but having medical insurance does not mean that it is perfect.There are also many people from the United States who work in the United States, get injured and get sick, and would rather buy a plane ticket to go back to China for treatment, and then the speed is faster than that in the United States, and the price is lower than that in the United States!

Not to mention how the medical insurance in the United States is, let’s talk about such a textbook system in the United States. Such a system is really too dark.The price of the book is simply shocking!That's really a rhythm that can count one by one!And it is said that the textbook certification process in the United States is also very corrupt!As long as a group's book can be designated as a textbook, it means that there is no need to worry about sales!Under such an economic stimulus, all kinds of money and even political donations in localized terms, will there be less?Murdoch certainly knows such a thing. He even knows that the textbook industry in the United States has a direct basic market of 80 billion U.S. dollars! 80 billion US dollars, scary or not?And such a textbook industry does not include after-school tutoring books and the like. The textbooks used in class alone have a scale of 80 billion US dollars!Behind such a large scale, there is naturally a group of greedy vampires hidden!

Then, the question before Murdoch was whether he would agree to Jia Hongjian's bet, and if he lost, would he accompany Jia Hongjian on such a risky trip?