American comics: Becoming the god of technology from Osborn

Chapter 71 The Tide of the Times is Unstoppable (First Update)
"Shut down Osborn and disable the androids!"

"Shut down Osborn and disable the androids!"

"Shut down Osborn and disable the androids!"

A large group of people held protest banners and waved and cheered in front of the bionic man store.

With them blocking the door, many consumers who wanted to choose the bionic man did not dare to step forward and were so scared that they turned around and left the scene.

The same scene can be seen in almost every sales point of the Osborne Group.

This has caused offline sales of bionic men to come to a temporary standstill. However, in this era, online channels are the biggest contributor to sales, and these people’s protests will not directly affect Osborne Group’s revenue.

But it will seriously affect Osborne's image and reputation.

"Boss, people's protests are getting more and more intense. The public relations department has issued several statements, but the effect is very limited."

In Osborne Building, Chloe said to Harry worriedly.

"If this continues, the reputation of the Osborne Group will be severely damaged. Many online comments against us were released almost at the same time. I suspect this is a premeditated public opinion attack."

"I think we can now use extraordinary measures to directly delete all the information on the Internet that deliberately criticizes the Osborne Group. With our artificial intelligence technology, we can do this without leaving any traces."

Chloe suggested.

"But doing so is likely to cause a new wave of public opinion, and it may be even more troublesome than it is now."

Harry shook his head.

"Even if we can technically leave no evidence, in many cases, people can make judgments without evidence."

"Then we can identify those who deliberately guide negative public opinion and tell people the truth."

Chloe suggested again.

"Chloe, you don't understand humans," Harry said with a light smile, "People who are swayed by public opinion don't care about the truth at all."

"Are we not going to do anything about it?" Chloe asked doubtfully.

"of course not."

Harry leaned back in his chair calmly. "It won't be long before someone from a TV station comes to us. I will then make a formal response to this matter live on the global broadcast."

He had already known the whole story through secret contact with Bucky, as well as Pierce's real purpose in guiding public opinion.

And Harry already had a way to deal with it.

Although Chloe was very curious about why her boss could be so calm and not anxious at all in the face of such a huge public opinion crisis.

But since Harry had made his decision, she would just stick to it and not ask any unnecessary questions.

Things turned out just as Harry said. In less than two hours, people from the TV station came to Chloe, who was in charge of external affairs, and expressed their request to invite Harry to participate in the talk show.

"No problem, I agree to participate in your interview."

When Chloe brought the TV station people to Harry, Harry readily accepted the invitation.

This news also spread throughout the entire network in a very short time.

"Harry Osborn will participate in a TV interview tomorrow night and prepare to make a formal response to recent negative events?"

Everyone was curious about what Harry was going to say. Some people liked to think positively, while others tended to believe in conspiracy theories.

The quarrel between the two sides has never stopped.

"I've always felt that something was wrong with what happened in the past few days. Although many companies have started to buy bionic people as employees, the number is currently small. How could so many people suddenly become unemployed because of bionic people?" "Idiot! There are few bionic people now, but what about in the future? When the streets are full of bionic people, all humans will be replaced. If you don't stand up and protest now, it will be too late later!"

Amidst the constant quarrels, it was already nine o'clock the next evening.

Harry arrived as promised and personally came to the TV station's broadcasting building, followed by a bodyguard who was wearing a mask and a hat and whose appearance could not be seen clearly.

At the same time, on the top of a building several kilometers away from the Broadcasting House, Pierce was looking at Harry's back as he walked into the Broadcasting House with a telescope, and smiled with a look of success.

"Sir, to kill Harry, we have to blow up the entire broadcasting building. Isn't that too much noise?"

Beside him, Serpent II Agent Ward asked with a frown.

"That's why I asked you to find the TV station in advance. If Harry died in the broadcasting building now, everyone would think that the murderer was an extremist who opposed androids. No one would believe that the organization that did this was believed to have been destroyed as early as World War II."

Pierce patted Ward's shoulder proudly and said, "Ward, if you want to inherit Garrett's position, you still have a lot to learn."

After that, he took out his communicator and contacted the Winter Soldier.

At this moment, in the building directly opposite the radio studio, Bucky received the call and answered immediately.

"Sir, I'm ready."

"Where's the hive?"

Bucky looked back at Hive, who was lying on the ground with his eyes closed. He didn't know whether he was asleep or using his consciousness to control the other parasites.

"No problem."

Bucky reported directly without waking up Hive.

"Very good, wait for the right moment and destroy Harry Osborn in one fell swoop!"

On the other side, in the studio, Harry had already taken his seat, and the host of the interview was a woman with brown curly hair.

The two sat opposite each other, with several cameras around them filming and uploading the footage for real-time broadcast to viewers around the world.

"Hello, Mr. Osborne, welcome to today's interview."

The host smiled and gave Harry his opening remarks.

"I know you all have a lot of questions that need answers, and I'm here today to talk about them."

Harry also gave a polite smile.

"Mr. Osborn, we would like to know what your original intention was in inventing the android?"

The host asked.

"My original intention was actually very simple. I wanted to create a technology that could help humans complete those boring, tedious and repetitive tasks, so that people would have more time to enjoy life."

"But have you ever thought that this might lead to androids taking up human jobs and causing the unemployment rate in society to rise?"

As soon as this question was asked, all the viewers who were watching the live broadcast perked up.

"When the steam engine was invented, it caused unemployment to soar, but would you want to go back to life without steam engines? This happens with every technological advancement."

Harry smiled faintly.

“The development of artificial intelligence is the trend of the times. My bionic people are not more advanced than robots developed by other technology companies. They just look more like humans.”

(End of this chapter)