St. Petersburg International Airport.
In the departure lounge, Krugman and Professor Albert were carrying suitcases. They both looked exhausted.
It had been a week since the International Congress of Mathematicians ended.
After the closing ceremony, the two didn't immediately leave St. Petersburg.
After all, this was the famous "City of Mathematics" in Eastern Europe. The world's top mathematics research institutions like the Steklov Mathematical Institute were located here.
While visiting these mathematics research institutions and giving lectures to find like-minded scholars, the two of them also tried a few times to get Perelman to help them complete their grand vision.
However, what was frustrating was that Perelman had been in a strange state ever since the 60-minute report of the ICM conference ended.
Before this, he would patiently answer the two's questions. Now, he didn't even bother to open the door for them.
The vacation time had been exhausted, and the two of them had their own work to do, so it was impossible for them to stay here endlessly.
Therefore, after being rejected in St. Petersburg, after some discussion, the two of them finally decided to return to the United States first before considering the next step.
If it didn't work out, they could at least let the project get on the right track first. It wouldn't be too late to recruit new collaborators after they produced some results.
"It's a pity that Professor Lu left too early. I feel like he's actually interested in our plan." Professor Krugman looked at the people coming and going in the departure lounge and said, "If only that accident didn't happen. If we praised him, maybe he would agree."
"Yeah … I think so too." Albert sighed and looked at the time on his watch. He stood up from his chair and said, "My flight has arrived … Then, I'll go first."
"Take care, email me."
"Okay."
Stanford University was on the west coast of North America, and Albert was a visiting professor at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB). Princeton, where Krugman worked, was on the east coast, which was a few time zones away from California.
After his old friend left, Krugman picked up a newspaper from the side, spread it on his knees, and flipped through it to kill time.
However, the moment he saw the headline, he was stunned.
"… Frozen dormancy?"
He changed the newspaper …
The headline was the same!
At this point, Krugman's expression finally began to become intriguing.
He raised his index finger and pushed his glasses up. He carefully read the newspaper headline in his hand, and the shock and disbelief in his eyes became more and more obvious.
"This … This is crazy."
Frozen dormancy!
Going to the future for treatment!
This was probably the craziest thing he had heard this year!
Before this, he vaguely heard that Lu Zhou transferred Pulyuy to China, but he didn't expect Lu Zhou to have this idea.
But …
Compared to Pulyuy's current situation, he was more concerned about the frozen dormancy technology itself.
This reminded him of a paper he wrote a long time ago on the theory of interstellar trade. In the paper, he casually mentioned that all capital activities were based on the time dimension.
If humans could "walk upright" on the time scale, the existing financial order would be unprecedentedly impacted. People would be more inclined to hold long-term and stable asset types, and would no longer be inclined to invest in high-risk high-return technology industries. Because time would no longer be an expensive cost, and the value of waiting would not be worth mentioning …
For example, if you deposited 10,000 US dollars into a currency fund, as long as the annual rate of return was guaranteed to be 4%, the interest alone would be more than 60,000 US dollars after 50 years, and the capital would add up to 70,000 US dollars!
That was equivalent to seven times!
If you magnified the number of the capital by a hundred times, and extended the time limit by 50 years …
"This thing is a financial bomb …" Krugman muttered to himself as he turned a page of the newspaper in his hand. He said, "Tomorrow's NASDAQ and global bond market will probably perform very well …"
Maybe it's not just the financial world …
Its power could no longer be measured by money.
Equality between people was based on birth, old age, sickness, and death. Whether it was rich or poor, civilians or nobles, they would all eventually die.
However, frozen dormancy technology undoubtedly broke this balance.
Right now, the power of life might still be equal. At least the power that people had won since the French Revolution had not been subverted, but the power of death was no longer equal …
If people could live in a future utopia, who would want to stay in the present to build a utopia?
Some of the lucky ones would set foot on the first step of immortality. No matter how far they were from the second step, the inequality of death would begin to show in the human civilization that had developed to this stage.
This seemingly ordinary technology actually had a greater impact on society than controllable fusion. It was no exaggeration to say that it would completely change the face of human civilization.
From a sociological point of view, it didn't correspond to the steam engine, nor did it correspond to the internal combustion engine, but to the printing press!
Its birth was paving the way for a major event that would be more far-reaching and powerful than the "Enlightenment" and the "French Revolution". It would not stop until the civilization that mastered this technology reached a balance based on compromise and tolerance in the "new equality".
This process would definitely be difficult and full of danger.
Of course, he also admitted that this kind of thinking might be too one-sided. The wealthier people were, the more cautious they were about weighing the balance between risks and benefits.
Thinking from the other side of logic, taking the risk of not waking up in an uncertain future to enjoy uncertain power and assets was far inferior to living in the present when one was already at the peak of one's life.
After all, even if a businessman from the 19th century was placed in the 21st century, he would probably be confused by the dazzling array of financial products and global trade rules under the new order.
After all, in the era where he lived, the profitable business was colonial plunder and industrial dumping. But now, it was popular to loot a country's treasury without using a single bullet.
Only those who couldn't afford a ticket to the future would have the idea of going on a one-way trip to find opportunities in the new world.
At the same time, survival was the top priority of all living things. Even if this technology wasn't revealed today, someone would definitely open this Pandora's Box someday in the future.
Lu Zhou had to admit, this was a very interesting research project.
It was even interesting enough for him to temporarily put aside his great and challenging research project.
Professor Krugman subconsciously held his breath. He rubbed his thumb and index finger that were holding the newspaper.
He only wanted to do one thing right now.
Which was to immediately go back to his office, sort out the things that he was thinking about at this moment, then sort them out and write them down on a thesis …
Maybe he could get another title in his lifetime.
For example …
The Father of the New Enlightenment?
This was really exciting.
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