Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0423: British Strategy (Part 2)
"In addition, ports, real estate, water conservancy, telecommunications, railways, and natural gas are all areas where we want to invest, especially telecommunications. The current communication network based on analog signals is not stable and cannot support the popularization of mobile phones.
The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations [the predecessor of ETST] established a mobile task force, which was authorized to improve many suggestions on the pan-European digital mobile communications system and had been preparing to develop a global mobile communications system GSM since the year before last.
You all know how deep the ties between European countries are. Many alliance organizations such as the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community have been established. If they can't get everything done, one day European countries will form a European Union and even unify their currencies."
"Adam, really?" Catherine asked.
Nan Yi nodded and said, "It should be. The establishment of the European Union is an inevitable trend, but it will not include your Eagle Country in the end. As for why, you can find out why the Eagle Country did not join the European Community when it was established in 1951, and why it actively joined in the 1970s.
Okay, let me continue talking about telecommunications. Let me put it this way, I am personally optimistic about the future of GSM. In addition, there are many large companies engaged in telecommunications business in Europe, such as Nokia in Finland, Siemens in Germany, and Ericsson in Sweden. They all started to develop telecommunications business at a very early stage.
If they were to develop their own mobile phones, what communications network would they be based on?"
"BOSS, there is no doubt that they will choose a communication network that is accepted by most European countries, which will make it easier for their mobile phones to enter the markets of other countries," said Dunstone.
“Yes, the three companies will not make much profit just by relying on their own domestic markets. They need markets in other countries, and a unified communications network will allow them to spread their products more easily without having to develop different communications modules for different countries.
GSM already has natural supporters from top to bottom, and we can bet that it has a bright future.
Therefore, Bolin Investment Holdings can try to invest in areas related to GSM.
This is about the future investment direction planning of Bolin Investment Holdings. Next, I will talk about the investment direction of British International Capital Corporation.
I position British Sunrise as a capital company that focuses on investing in high-tech fields. We invest in high-tech. For example, I read in the newspaper some time ago that there was a man named James who invented a new cyclone vacuum cleaner called G-Force.
The production and sale of dust bags is a large industry, with an annual output value of over 1 billion pounds. Driven by market interests, companies in the industry have chosen to maintain the status quo and are not interested in Sendai's invention.
They are not interested, but we may be. We do not have any interests in that industry. As latecomers, it is a good thing for us to have the opportunity to break industry conventions and reshuffle the cards.
This means that we can pull these pioneers back to the starting line and start racing with us from the same starting point; we can even sneak a few steps forward before the starting gun sounds.
So, Yingzi, go find that man called Sendai and verify whether his invention is groundbreaking. If so, invest in his Sendai company."
"clear."
"In addition, electronics, aerospace, chemicals, machinery, as long as it is high-tech related to civilian use, Sun Never Sets can invest in it." Nan Yi paused and said, "I usually like to watch science fiction movies. I am very interested in the various high-tech tools that are based on the current technological development and the future prospects presented in the movies, which are beyond the present and look a bit magical.
I am particularly interested in invisibility cloaks and hope to have one myself.
With the invisibility cloak, I can do some bad things. For example, if Catherine can't see me, I can play some pranks on her."
Nan Yi repeatedly involved himself in the non-serious jokes in serious topics, which made her roll her eyes at Nan Yi again.
Seeing her rolling eyes, Nan Yi laughed and then put on a serious face, "Okay, no more jokes. I originally thought that the invisibility cloak could only be a delusion of mine, but when I paid attention to this field, I found that the invisibility cloak might become a reality.
In 1968, Soviet revisionist theoretical physicist Fischlag discovered that when a light beam is obliquely incident from the air into water, the incident light and the refracted light are located on both sides of the normal.
So, he suddenly had an idea: Is there another medium that, contrary to the above phenomenon, can make the incident light and refracted light be on the same side of the normal?
Don’t you understand?
It’s okay if you don’t understand. Actually, I don’t understand either.
It was later confirmed that Fislag's abnormal question was not a fantasy.
Theoretically, this anomalous physical phenomenon can occur by simply finding a material that has both a negative dielectric constant and negative magnetic permeability.
However, no experimental verification was carried out at the time, and functional materials were still in the early stages of development, so Fislag's bold scientific hypothesis did not attract much attention.
In recent years, due to the in-depth understanding of electromagnetic theory by many laboratories in various countries and the rapid development of micro-nano processing technology, an artificial device with a periodic structure at the micro-nano scale has been born.
It not only experimentally realized all theoretical predictions such as negative dielectric constant and negative magnetic permeability, but also verified a possibility - by designing on a variety of physical structures and breaking through the limitations of natural laws, a new substance can be obtained.
A new substance with the functionality we need.”
"Adam, what can this new material you mentioned be used for? Can it be used to make an invisibility cloak?" Catherine asked.
"No, theoretically speaking, this new substance is designed according to our needs. It can be the same as our skin, or even every organ in our body. In the future, if you need something, you don't need to take it from other people. You can directly design an organ that is not rejected by your own body.
Of course, this is just a theory. Who knows how many years it will take to realize this step.
In the short term, we can look forward to self-repair, invisibility, and micro-manufacturing. If this new material can achieve these three things, it will be very remarkable.”
“What is microfabrication?”
"We can make things very small. For example, semiconductor chips can be made smaller and smaller. It is possible that in the future a computer will be so small that we cannot even see it with our naked eyes.
It is also possible to use a new material to create a very small medical machine that can enter our blood vessels and clear the blockages inside. It can also crawl into the kidneys, directly break up the kidney stones, and then carry them out of the kidneys bit by bit.
Because they are small enough, they will not cause much harm to the human body.
Imagine if you could replace your two balls with a material that is exactly the same as them, and this material could grow or shrink, and it also had the ability to self-repair, so that your balls wouldn't sag. What would you think the price of this material would be?"
"Adam, if you make fun of me again, I'll be angry." Catherine said with a cold face.
But she said this, but her eyes subconsciously glanced down, thinking, "If there really is such material, should I change it myself?"
