St. Petersburg International Airport.

In the waiting hall for take-off, Krugman and Professor Albert, carrying their suitcases, looked quite tired.

It’s been a week since the conclusion of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

After the closing ceremony, the two did not leave St. Petersburg immediately.

After all, it is a famous "matrix city" in Eastern Europe. The world's top mathematics research institute, such as the Szczólov Institute of Mathematics, is located here.

While visiting these mathematics research institutions and offering lectures to find like-minded and competent scholars, the two also tried a few times, trying to get Perelman out of the mountains to help them and complete that great idea.

However, it is frustrating that Perelman has entered a strange state since the last 60-minute report of the imu conference.

If he would patiently answer the two questions before then, then now he is too lazy to open the door to two people.

The time of the holiday has been exhausted, and the two people who work on their own are not likely to stay here endlessly.

Therefore, after meeting a few people in St. Petersburg, after discussing it, I finally decided to go back to the United States and do the next step.

If it is not possible, properly relax the threshold of the collaborators, at least let the subject get on the right track, and wait until the results are made before recruiting new partners.

"...Unfortunately Professor Lu went too early, I feel that he actually has a little meaning for our plan." Looking at the waiting hall, Professor Krugman suddenly said with emotion, "If there is no It would be nice to have that kind of accident. We are working hard and boasting about it. Maybe he will agree."

"Yeah... I think so too," Albert said with a sigh. He raised his hand and looked at the time on his watch. He stood up from the chair. "My flight seems to be coming... then I will first Take a step."

" Take care, contact by mail."

"Ok."

Stanford University is a visiting professor at the American Center for Cancer System Biology (ccsb) on the west coast of North America. And Krugman's Princeton is on the East Coast, and California is in a few time zones.

After the old friend left, Krugman picked up a newspaper from the side, spread it on his knees, and turned it over.

However, at the first sight of the headline, he was stunned.

"...freezing dormancy?"

Changed a newspaper...

The title of the headline is the same!

When I got here, Krugman’s expression finally began to become intriguing.

Lifting his index finger and pushing his glasses, he carefully read the headline of the newspaper in his hand, the shock and incredulity in his eyes became more and more obvious, and finally couldn’t help but whisper.

"This... this is too crazy."

Freeze sleep!

Go to the future for treatment!

This is probably the craziest thing he has heard this year!

Before that, he was vaguely heard that Lu Zhou would transfer Miss Puyue to the country of China, but he did not expect that he actually held this idea.

but……

Compared with the current situation of Miss Puyue, what he cares about is the frozen dormancy technology itself.

This reminds him of a paper he wrote about the interstellar trade theory a long time ago. In the paper, he just mentioned that all capital activities are based on the time dimension.

If human beings can “walk upright” on a time scale, the existing financial order will be hit by unprecedented impact, and people will be more inclined to hold long-term and stable income assets, and will no longer tend to invest in high-risk and high-return Especially in the high-tech industry where the decade is a generation, because time will no longer be an expensive cost, the value of waiting will not be worth mentioning...

For example, if you deposit 10,000 US dollars into the money fund, as long as the annual rate of return can guarantee 4 points, according to compound interest, after 50 years, the light interest is more than 60,000 US dollars, and the principal plus 70,000!

Equivalent to seven times!

If you magnify the number of the principal by a hundred times, you will be allowed to extend the time for a period of fifty years...

"This stuff is simply a financial bomb..." Turned the newspaper in his hand, Krugman whispered, "The performance of Nasdaq and the global bond market will be very good tomorrow." wonderful……"

Maybe not just finance...

Its power can no longer be measured by money alone.

The equality between people is based on the dying of life and death. Whether it is rich or poor, civilians or nobles, they will eventually die.

However, the freeze dormancy technology undoubtedly broke this balance.

Now, the power of life may still be equal. At least the power that people have won since the French Revolution/Life has not been subverted, but the power to die is already unequal...

If you can live decently in the future Utopia, who is willing to stay in the moment to build Utopia?

Part of the lucky one will embark on the first step of eternal life, no matter how far away from the second step, the inequality of death will begin to emerge in the human civilization that has developed to this stage.

This seemingly dull technology is actually more influential than the controllable fusion to the whole society. It is no exaggeration to say that it will even completely change the face of human civilization.

From a sociological point of view, it is not a steam engine, nor an internal combustion engine or a power turbine, but a printing operation!

Its birth is paving the way for a far-reaching and more powerful slogan than the Enlightenment and the French Revolution/Life, until the civilization that masters this technology is in "new equality." A balance built on compromise and tolerance will stop.

And this process will be difficult and full of danger.

Of course, he also admits that this kind of thinking may be too one-sided. The more affluent people are, the more careful they are to balance the balance between risk and return.

Thinking from the other side of the logic, taking the risk of waking up to the uncertain future to enjoy uncertain powers and assets, is far better than living in the moment of the peak of life.

After all, even if you look at the excellence of the 19th century businessman, I am afraid that he will be confused by the dazzling array of financial products and the global trade rules under the new order.

After all, in the days when he lived, a profitable business was colonial plunder and industrial dumping, but now it is popular to rob a country's national treasury with only one shot.

Only those who can't afford to buy tickets for the future will come up with an idea of ​​going back and going to the New World to find opportunities.

At the same time, considering that survival is the first demand of living things. Even if the technology is not taken out today, someone will open this Pandora's box one day in the future.

I have to say that this is a very interesting topic.

Even interesting enough, he was able to temporarily put down the great and challenging subject he was working on.

Thinking of this, Professor Krugman unconsciously held his breath, holding the index finger and thumb of the newspaper constantly rubbing.

He only wants to do one thing now.

That is to go back to your office immediately, clarify the things that you think of at the moment, then sort them out and write them on the paper...

If you don't do well, he can have another title in his lifetime.

such as……

The father of the new Enlightenment?

It’s really exciting to think about it.