Great Power Technology: Domination Of The World Starts With Chips

『It means that my amputated leg can be restored? 』

"My father's hand was amputated in an accident when he was in the factory, can it be replaced? 』

"I had a car accident before, and both legs were amputated. Can I put them back on again? 』

"How much will it cost, please?" Those prosthetics in China are so expensive, so Zhiqi's is probably tens of thousands, right? 』

『Can this thing completely replace the arm prosthesis? 』

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People with disabilities themselves, or those whose relatives have disabilities, are the most enthusiastic about this new technology.

Especially for those with hand or arm disabilities.

Because in the past, people with disabled or broken legs could directly replace them with artificial limbs. After all, the function of legs is to support people to stand up.

However, people with hand and arm disabilities are far from being so lucky.

In almost all labor activities of people, hands are the most indispensable part.

Driving, picking up things, writing, coding...

Maybe some of them can use their feet to complete these tasks, but that is only an individual case after all, and the hands are still the most important part of human beings.

After all, after so many years of human evolution, it is to transform the hand that is only used to support the body into a form that can use various tools flexibly.

The hand is the most different place between humans and other animals, and it is a symbol of intelligent creatures.

And precisely because of the functionality and flexibility of the hand, it has become an irreplaceable part of the prosthesis.

Among the hand and arm disabled people, only those with finger disabilities can maintain the mechanical function by wearing mechanical fingers. For those with broken hands and arms, there is no way at all.

If the arm is broken and the hand is broken, there are not enough support points to control the various joints of the exoskeleton arm. At most, it is to play a pirate and get a hook on the arm.

And now, Zhiqi announced that it can use nerves to control exoskeletons. Doesn't it mean that in the near future, these disabled people will be able to control the wrists and fingers of arm prostheses through nerves?

Doesn't this mean that those who lost their hands and arms can return to their jobs and earn a salary?

Instead of staying at home and relying on family members to make money to support them?

...

Shangjing, Zhonghai.

In that simple office.

The Great Elder listened to a middle-aged man's report and said, "Has the experiment been successful on monkeys?"

"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded, "Here is a video of their laboratory."

"Leave it out and have a look."

"Yes." The middle-aged man took out a remote control and turned on the screen.

In the video, it was the same room as before. There were two cages in the room, each with a monkey.

One of the arms is a metallic mechanical arm, which perfectly matches the characteristics of the monkey's arm.

And this monkey is flexibly using the mechanical fingers on the mechanical arm, grabbing the iron rod of the cage, and pulling it hard, trying to destroy the cage.

Every joint on the robotic arm is so flexible that it feels like a real hand with a metal skin.

The monkey on the other side touched his artificial leg curiously, flexing and stretching it from time to time, just like a real leg.

The Great Elder couldn't help feeling: "The technology developed by Zhiqi is really becoming more and more incomprehensible."

The middle-aged man also nodded with the same feeling: "There is one thing to say, indeed."

The Great Elder then asked: "Can this thing be used on the human body?"

Middle-aged man: "According to Zhiqi, their technology has matured and can be applied to humans. The rest is to go through the approval process."

"Has the technology matured?"

"Yes, but Zhiqi, it doesn't feel strange." The middle-aged man said so.

"What's their pricing? How much does it cost people with disabilities?"

"The legs are different from the hands. The hands are more expensive. According to Zhiqi, the cost of the legs is only about 4,000 to 5,000, and the cost of the hands is about 6,000 to 7,000. Because the hands There are many joints, and the hands are smaller than the legs, so there are more precision parts inside." The middle-aged man replied: "As for the pricing, we don't know yet, Zhiqi has not disclosed the news, after all, this technology It’s not officially listed yet.”

"In addition, there is also the cost of surgery. This depends on the positioning of each hospital, but it is estimated that a surgery will not be less than 1,000 to 2,000."

The Great Elder pondered for a moment, and said, "This thing must be included in the medical insurance. No matter what the price of Zhiqi will be in the future, we must ensure that the disabled can replace it at a price of less than 1,000 at most."

The middle-aged man nodded without any doubts: "I see, should I prepare now?"

"Let's wait for their stuff to come out first. Even if Zhiqi said that the technology is mature, we have to wait for their clinical trials to be successful."

"Yes." The middle-aged man replied.

The Great Elder nodded slightly, and at the same time he was looking forward to the day when this technology was successfully verified on the human body, even if the government needs to increase a large amount of medical insurance expenditures for this.

Why does the country need medical insurance?

In addition to being one of the social welfare systems to ensure the happiness and well-being of the people, the most important point is that a healthy person can work.

Labor can create economic value.

And sick people have many diseases, which make them unable to work.

Like disability.

As for the 9 million disabled people in China, if they can all return to the labor force and continue to work, the growth of the country's GDP and tax revenue, and the comprehensive profits it will bring in the future will definitely exceed the part of the state's advance payment.

Not to mention this kind of prosthesis that can almost completely replace the original limb.

Even if Zhiqi is priced at 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, the government is willing to allocate funds for it.

This is not like the incurable disease like uremia. The patient has to be dialysis for a lifetime, and the medical insurance has to bear it all the time.

For this type of prosthesis, medical insurance only needs to pay for it once, and the economic value created after the patient recovers can quickly make up for this part even if he finds a factory to work.

And this kind of thing can also improve people's happiness.

Think about your own children or parents, how distressed they are when they lose a leg or a hand?

Besides, you need to take care of yourself all the time.

Nowadays, it only costs less than 1,000 yuan to allow disabled children and parents to connect a prosthetic limb that is completely indistinguishable from real hands and legs, allowing them to carry out activities independently without being distracted by themselves. The sense of happiness of the family has gradually increased, and the sense of satisfaction with the country and the political party has also increased.

Governing a big country is like cooking small fish, and the Great Elder knows the truth.

However, it was Zhi Qi who surprised him even more.

With such a technology, I believe those foreign people will not be able to sit still, right?

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In the United States, in the house rented by Elon Musk.

"You said that Zhiqi has developed the nerve-operated exoskeleton technology?"

Hearing the news from his assistant, Musk's words were not without surprise.

He is a businessman who likes to engage in cutting-edge technology, and he is very interested in those very sci-fi things.

Brain-computer interface technology is one of them.