Stark Industrial Fair. Ever since Howard Stark Sr. first held this world-famous industrial fair outside New York in the 1930s, Stark Industries had made this industrial fair a regular event for the company.
It was held every four years, and every time it was held in New York. It had been going on for more than seventy years since the last one in the 1930s.
It could be said that it had become the corporate culture of Stark Industries, a habit that flowed in the company's veins.
In this world, expositions like the World Expo or the BMW Industrial Exhibition couldn't compare to the Stark Industrial Fair in terms of scale and influence.
In the 1930s, when Howard held the first industrial fair, he had introduced an advanced car that transcended its time. That was the earliest hover car.
It could be said that it was the prototype of the hover car that Tony had produced. What was different was that the car that Tony had designed was a true anti-gravity car that relied on the Earth's magnetic field to levitate and even fly.
Howard Sr.'s car, on the other hand, had been designed with the concept of the ground-effect aircraft at the time, and hadn't really solved the energy problem, so it could only be considered a semi-finished product.
Even so, Howard's creativity and concept at the time had shocked the world.
After more than seventy years, the Stark Industrial Fair had gone from being a commercial show to simply showcase the latest inventions and development plans of Stark Industries to a large-scale exposition that truly expanded its influence to the whole world.
This had something to do with the twenty years of development that Tony had taken over Stark Industries after he came to power. Compared with his father, Tony Stark was more far-sighted, and preferred to express himself under the spotlight.
You could think of this as being smug. Of course, it wasn't just being smug.
In the past twenty years of Tony's leadership, Stark Industries had extended its tentacles in more directions, including environmental protection, energy, charity, information technology and supercomputers, artificial intelligence, industrial development, and so on.
Stark Industries was no longer the company that relied entirely on weapons to make a fortune.
If the World Expo was a stage for countries all over the world to use this exhibition to show their country's business cards and image, then the Stark Industrial Fair was a show of muscle that affected countries all over the world.
After more than seventy years of development, there were now more than one hundred and seventy countries participating in this industrial event. There were as many as seventeen thousand companies participating in the fair. The month-long exhibition will bring in tens of millions of tourists and visitors.
Last year, during the first month of the Stark Industrial Fair, deals reached 1.1 trillion dollars.
The Stark Industrial Exposition was held every four years, and every time it was held, it would reveal the possibilities and plans for global industrial development in the next four years. What you see here is not just a bunch of cold machines.
The truly far-sighted people could see the things contained in the machines that were either huge enough to make people gasp in amazement or exquisite enough to make people click their tongues in amazement. Civilization and technology were things that would change the future of human society!
Here, you can see the world's most advanced industrial production equipment, as well as the most imaginative ideas.
This was a place to showcase the industrial strength of each country. No matter what kind of country's business card was displayed at the Expo, it was just a matter of face.
In this industrial exhibition, everything that was displayed was the true essence of a country.
The power of industry and machines was daunting.
Next to the highway from New York to the Atlantic Ocean, the Stark Industrial Expo Park had been expanded and renovated several times in the past seventy years, and now it was a complete area. The rest stop at the edge could even connect the two cities.
Right now, just the value of the land here was already a huge sum of money that was hard to calculate. For the successive mayors of New York City and Atlantic City, the most important thing in their terms of office was the Stark Industrial Fair.
Here, the United States fully embodied the concept that capital was king and interests were paramount. The Stark Industries Expo wasn't just a place for the United States to show off its industrial muscles. It was also a grand event held once every four years in New York and Atlantic City, which could bring astonishing profits to the two cities.
This year's industrial fair was destined to be turbulent, because Tony had announced the new energy plan and the moon development plan.
Even the United Nations Moon Management Plan, which was made up of the five permanent members of the United Nations and Germany, had been signed and approved by the prime ministers, secretaries of state, and presidents of six countries.
This was a turbulent era. Every country and every person could feel the unstoppable force of this torrent crashing towards traditional human society.
No one wanted to fall behind this era, whether it was the five permanent members of the United Nations or the new European Union formed by Britain, France, and Germany. Or the new Eastern European Union headed by Latvia with the Commonwealth of Independent States as the backbone organization.
The entire world's political situation began to change. The new round of the Stark Industrial Fair had a record number of participating countries and manufacturers.
Take China for example, the number of manufacturers led by China's minister of industry was close to 3,700, the highest in history. Among them, the most important manufacturer was China Nuclear Power. The news that the Suiren I controllable nuclear fusion successfully ignited and successfully operated for seventy-two hours within the safety threshold shocked the world.
Other countries that didn't want to be restricted by the Stark Industries might consider in-depth research on controllable nuclear fusion with China.
In terms of portability and energy conversion, the controllable nuclear fusion developed by China was still the traditional nuclear power plant. It was incomparable to the palm-sized Arc Reactor, and it was unlikely to be installed on spaceships. However, at least it was an alternative in terms of industrial production and civilian use.
Li Jie and Tony both knew what the Stark Industrial Fair meant. Perhaps this would be the beginning of a new era.
Regarding the concept of this new era, Li Jie and Tony had the following conversation a long time ago.
Tony: "For the first time in this era, humans will truly enter the era of the universe. I firmly believe so."
Li Jie: "Is it good or bad?"
Tony: "What?"
Li Jie: "After humans enter the universe and step into the era of interstellar colonization, will humans still be the humans we know? Like the farmer in the age of discovery, when he set foot on the fleet to conquer the new continent, he was destined to be associated with guns and blood, and slaughter the natives in a cruel way. "
Li Jie: "Will that farmer still be the original farmer?"
Tony: "What are you trying to say?"
Li Jie: "Compared with the explosive growth of our technology, our social science progress is too slow. It's like the mind can't keep up with the body. Our bodies are getting stronger, but our minds are still stiff. "
Tony: "So, you have an idea?!"
Li Jie: "Yes, I have an idea. The formation of an interstellar fleet, and humans will one day step out of the solar system. The difference between now and the age of discovery is that we can guess some things, even though they might not be correct. But we can at least do it in advance. "
Tony: "For example?"
Li Jie: "For example, the study of cosmic sociology and cosmic philosophy."
Tony smiled. "I thought you weren't interested in scientific theories, especially social science theories."
Li Jie laughed a little louder than Tony. "Yes, I'm not interested in that most of the time. But if we want to build a new era, we have to do something. Ordinary people might not need to learn philosophy and sociology in their lifetime, but they're something every politician and leader has to learn. They need to find a suitable leadership strategy.
"And in politics, we need to have our own people. We need to be prepared before the era of the universe arrives, and then sweep away the stale and dirty things that are on the table! The new era will have a new order. "
Tony's eyes lit up. "Just like how my ancestors came to the new continent from Europe, established the United States, and finally swept away the old Europeans?"
Li Jie laughed. "Maybe it's more thorough. You said that my plan is crazy. Why can't we be more crazy? I feel good about being a lunatic who changes the world! "
Tony also laughed. "To the lunatic who changes the world, I propose a toast to you!"
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