Demolition Earth

Chapter 98 Mergers and Acquisitions
When the blue sky swept across the world, millions of people around the world got new lives, but at the same time, the medical industry with a scale of tens of billions was hit hard by the market.

This San Francisco-based company called Sunshine Medical is one of them.

The main project of this company is related to the equipment and technology in the field of brain research, mainly for chronic brain research, including brain potential analysis, brain function localization... These equipment and technology are currently mainly used in epilepsy, brain tumors, Research on brain function, etc.

Before the emergence of the blue sky, the company's financial situation was not bad, and several key technologies were favored by capital. Originally, according to the company's original plan, it would continue to expand several projects this year.

But since last year, when Blue Sky opened in Spain, funding for almost all civilian research on brain disorders has taken a hit — because the market has barely existed.

Technological progress in the medical field is, to a large extent, driven by the terminally ill wealthy people with their funds, and those without money with their lives.

The rich pay for the price of new technologies, and the poor pay for the development of new drugs or new technologies.

And since last year, whether it is rich or not, whether it is brain science or tumor research... It can be said that in the field of terminal illness and severe illness in the world, Blue Sky has completely subverted the original ecology.

Rich people are very simple, they all go to pool money to buy places, compared to the end of the people on earth who spend money and may not be able to cure diseases, of course they choose the blue sky where money can certainly cure diseases.

And those who have no money are not willing to participate in new medical experiments for a little experiment fee or a slim chance of cure. They would rather go to the gate of the blue sky to protest, buy lottery tickets, gamble, or even kidnap those rich people.

Salvador's action in Madrid, to some extent, changed the rules of the game in this world.

Capital is always the most sensitive. Since the opening of the blue sky, the stocks in the medical industry in the market have been plummeting. At the beginning, those who were engaged in chemotherapy drugs, tumor research, and immunosuppression... Later, this The blue storm began to spread gradually.

A month ago, there was a wild rumor on the Internet, saying that those people who have received treatment now have immune antibodies to many diseases. As long as they accept their blood transfusion, they can fight many diseases and even improve tumors...

Just such a rumor full of flaws led to a huge shock in the stock market. In this shock, the stock prices of two well-known pharmaceutical groups were cut in half.The special medicines they sell for certain diseases are not as good as the blood sold on the black market by those who have been cured.

In the beginning, medical science was the only thing that everyone could believe in when facing diseases.

Now the uniqueness of this belief has been broken. In the eyes of most people, the blue sky has become a representative of some mysterious power... The main factor supporting the stock price is confidence. When this confidence is greatly challenged, the whole A modern medical building built through medical science is almost in a crumbling crisis.

Now those who are still using traditional treatment methods will subconsciously ask after the doctor explained the treatment method: "How does it compare with S therapy?"

How can the doctor answer, he can only say with a wry smile: "At least it's cheaper than it."

This Sunshine Medical is the most typical victim of this wave of closures of medical companies. Its products are aimed at the high-end frontier market, without government funding, and its products are expensive and have insignificant curative effects... In the past year, the operating income of this company A sharp drop of 7%, because many institutions are not optimistic about similar research work, so their technologies and equipment naturally have no market.

Several major shareholders of this company have already arrived. In fact, the details of the contract have been basically negotiated before. Du Yan came here today to participate in a signing ceremony. After that, a new management team will be appointed in this company.

Zhao Changqi and Du Yan have participated in such ceremonial occasions many times, but he feels that he can still grasp the idea of ​​mergers and acquisitions in the companies he participated in before, because those companies have upstream and downstream relationships with the game industry , but this one is in the medical field... Zhao Changqi doesn't think it's strange if Blue Sky comes to acquire it, but he still finds it a bit incomprehensible for the inner star.

All the employees of the company participated in the signing ceremony, about 30 people, most of them are technical positions, and some of the management positions are dark and unnatural. They probably have guessed their fate, and from time to time they will A glance at Du Yan, their future female boss.

After the signing was over, the original bosses all left in a car. Du Yan organized an internal meeting of the company, and quickly announced several appointments, and fired several people on the spot.

After completing these tasks, Du Yan called the company's technical director and began to listen to him introduce the principles of their company's original products.

Zhao Changqi listened and listened to a lot of long-winded things. Zhao Changqi could barely understand the general meaning, which was about the analysis of brain electrical signals.

In Zhao Changqi's original understanding, the understanding of brain electrical signals is the common EEG in hospitals. Knowing the waveform of EEG has a certain relationship with people's health.

This understanding is general and vague. He is not a doctor and does not know what these waveforms specifically mean, nor is he a researcher in related fields, nor does he know what the current cutting-edge theoretical research is, and what is the focus.

After listening to the person in charge, he probably understood that with the current technology, more information can be analyzed from the EEG.

In addition to helping the screening of routine brain diseases, this information also includes people's emotional state, level of thinking activity, and even, in some cases, very simple consciousness readings can be completed.

Yes, literally.According to the standard of the experiment, it is to let the experimenter think of a certain concept in his brain, such as the number 123, such as a certain animal... and then analyze the changes in the brain wave waveform.

In the analysis of some individual cases, some representative technical indicators can already be identified.

This technology was first used to detect the memory state of patients. After the results were published, everyone realized that this technology may lead to a certain state that human beings have been looking forward to for a long time, consciousness reading.

However, this kind of rhetoric is what this company used to tell stories when it later invested in those investment companies. In actual application, this technology is still in its infancy.

If consciousness reading is regarded as allowing the computer to understand the brain's speech, what is achieved now is only to allow the computer to understand a few syllables with the highest degree of discrimination, just like a baby understands such simple words as father and mother.

Moreover, according to the person in charge, this kind of brain voice does not seem to be common to different people-everyone's brain wave signal seems to have its own unique part, and for the same concept, the information features are also different. Not all match.

Therefore, this technology is still in the experimental stage of the laboratory, because it is far from the main business, and Sunshine Medical is not prepared to invest too much resources in this technology.But Du Yan's subsequent words surprised the person in charge and Zhao Changqi: "The purpose of my buying your company is just for this technology."

Then Du Yan put forward her own requirements for the future of this project: "In three years, to complete the accurate realization of consciousness reading, the degree of accuracy requires that the experimenter can use the equipment to complete the accuracy of the current information input equipment such as keyboard and mouse. "

The person in charge was a little uncomfortable with Du Yan's whimsy. He probably understood Du Yan's thoughts, but he definitely couldn't guarantee that he could do it: "That's something that can only be done in science fiction... don't say it's three years. Give me 30 years, and I don't know how to make it happen. Even the little things we've achieved so far are just a matter of luck."

Du Yan shook her head: "Three years, you can definitely do it, your direction is right, you just don't have enough data for the time being."

"How do you know... enough data? I understand what you mean, we have collected more than 2000 people in the past two years, but we haven't found..."

"There are more than 70 billion people in the world, and among 2000 people, it is very common to find no obvious correlation. And I have read your experimental report, and I can clearly say that there is a problem with the experimental design."

"what is the problem?"

"Your experiments are aimed at different groups of people with different languages, right?"

"Yes."

"Why not target a certain group of people?"

The person in charge exclaimed in surprise: "We are not racists!"

"Look, we have found the reason," Du Yan said, "I have seen the brainstorming records of your experimental design stage, you think that different cultural backgrounds, speaking different languages, will produce the same signal of computer waves, right? Does being politically correct mean being scientifically correct? Change the idea of ​​the experiment and expand the scale of the experiment, and there will be results, I believe, very soon.”

(End of this chapter)