Through Norman's new infrastructure policy and the promotion of construction robots, the speed of infrastructure work has become faster and faster—so fast it's unimaginable.
Many people overlook that this country was once an "infrastructure maniac," with President Roosevelt carrying out a great deal of infrastructure work during the 1929 economic crisis.
It was during the Roosevelt New Deal that the United States built a highway network covering the entire country.
Then, during the Eisenhower administration, in order to promote economic development and demonstrate their superiority, they planned to upgrade the highway network into an interstate highway network, launching the Interstate Highway System project.
After the efforts of several generations, 68,880 kilometers of expressways were finally built in the 1970s. Afterward, more mileage was added, and eventually, the expressway mileage exceeded 100,000 kilometers.
Unfortunately, after decades of use, these roads had fallen into disrepair, and due to funding and domestic issues, they had never been maintained.
Furthermore, many early expressways were concrete roads with very low load-bearing capacity.
Therefore, even decades later, people often bring this plan up as a talking point.
But now, under the auspices of the "Norman New Deal," these expressways have been renovated, and a special lane has been added to the hundreds of thousands of kilometers of highway:
"Drone Lane" — built by Osborn.
This lane is filled with all kinds of unmanned cargo trucks and construction robots, working 24 hours a day without rest, delivering supplies and labor to designated locations.
Because all the robots in the lane are remotely dispatched by UIS, even though this lane operates at full capacity almost around the clock, there has never been a traffic jam.
The swarm of robots has become a tourist attraction—a scenic spot over 100,000 kilometers long—boosting morale and promoting the adoption of robotic labor.
Seeing this, Harry knew he was right to intervene and stop the birth of Ultron—even if he had followed the original plot, stopped Ultron, and saved Sokovia, he would have gained nothing but the camaraderie of the Avengers.
But the promotion of these robotic laborers would surely have faced immense obstacles. Where would he have found such efficient labor to upgrade the Earthlings then?
In his view, the damage Ultron caused to Earth didn't just make the Avengers lose trust; it also made the public deeply suspicious of technological development, which is fatal.
Imagine in a game where everyone is climbing the tech tree, and your already backward place gets slapped with a "Citizens are Protesting: Tech Research Speed" debuff; what else is there to play?
Just restart the game.
With the renovation of the highway network, the power grid construction also accelerated, and until today, the mission Harry had been waiting for was finally completed.
[Mission: Energy Monopoly]
[Phase 2 Mission: Establish a super power grid covering over 98% of the United States]
[Mission completed, reward distributed]
[Reward: Virtual Framework World Construction Technology]
[We are responsible for both real life and virtual life.]
[Next phase mission released]
[Phase 3 Mission: Occupy 70% of the global energy supply market]
This reward surprised Harry; he thought it would be related to electrical energy, but it turned out to be virtual reality World technology.
However, this was also something he had been considering.
He was already an expert in brain-computer interaction; frankly speaking, even Tony was not as good as him in this regard.
Harry had been cheating, conducting various borderline experiments, and had the support of a massive research team and resources throughout the process; this result was simply a natural outcome.
Just in brain-computer interaction, he could already achieve over 90% full simulation, and the application prospects for this technology were very broad.
Besides being used to extract information from enemy Agents' minds, determine whether his own Agents were loyal, or if they had psychological defects requiring leave or retirement, it could also be used to train recruits, imparting knowledge through virtual classrooms and completely changing traditional teaching models.
Except for high-end, cutting-edge experiments that still needed to be conducted in reality, things like 13-year compulsory education could completely take place in the virtual World.
The only problem was how to build a World capable of supporting so many people existing together? No server could store and process such massive amounts of data.
But now Harry had it.
Through this technology, every device was equivalent to a computing terminal, contributing processing power to the entire virtual World, which was equivalent to using the user's electricity bill to contribute to the servers.
However, traditional computers were very inefficient at building virtual framework Worlds. If he really did that, Harry might have to build a ring of nuclear power plants around the equator just to support a virtual World for over 6 billion people.
But now Harry had the semi-biological electronic brain technology, and this thing was highly efficient at building virtual Worlds.
Connecting users to this semi-biological brain could activate it, and this biological brain connection technology would also deepen the user's immersion.
It was simply perfect.
There were no technical issues; the rest was just getting to work.
For military applications, Harry could design it himself, but for civilian use, he needed to find someone else to maintain this system—Bone and A were already busy responsible for updating and optimizing urban scheduling algorithms, which was enough to keep them occupied.
In other words, Bone and the Grady-Fruhl Company were responsible for real-World algorithms, while Harry still needed a team to operate the virtual World.
"UIS, help me find a company that is quite capable in the VR field."
Harry took a sip of tea. Others recruited, but he was different; he could just acquire them directly.
Why recruit one person when you can recruit an entire team?
"Sir, the company list has been compiled."
According to the information listed by UIS, apart from Osborn, most civilian VR was still stuck in the stage of using VR glasses for simulation.
This technology was just starting, and the market was still in the "PPT fundraising" stage.
The list included game platform companies, social platform companies, software companies, and so on. Because ctOS had undoubtedly secured the internet market, many companies had turned to the virtual reality field, where Osborn had less involvement.
I heard they even hyped up a "Metaverse" concept, but their technology didn't look capable of supporting this concept.
Harry scrolled through this list casually. To be honest, he wasn't very satisfied with these people.
At this moment, UIS suddenly said: "Sir, if you are not interested in big companies, perhaps you can look at entrepreneurs."
"I found two young people who seem to have very novel technology, only they don't have much money—though they are indeed asking for quite a lot, considering their level."
UIS displayed the information of these two young people.
James Halliday, a taciturn lead technical developer, who almost perfectly fits the stereotype of a genius: introverted, stubborn, and brilliant.
Ogden Morrow, the two were good friends. Although this person also understood technology, he was mostly responsible for raising funds.
Harry stroked his chin and thought: These two names sound somewhat familiar. Isn't this the innovative online company from the movie Ready Player One?
"Buy them."
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