386. Chapter 386: The Arena
Like Sissi, Duchess Ron was a young woman of letters, not as accurate as Edison and others about the future and power of search engine technology, but she heard that everyone around her, including her husband, had a very high opinion of Apple Search.
She was also curious to use it, but when she just opened the Apple search interface, she was suddenly stunned, the name of this product that IBM attaches great importance to...... Why do you suddenly feel ashamed? It turned out that she remembered what Tang Ning said before he was rude to her in the Old Summer Palace.
A certain emperor called himself a farmer on the earth, and also cited the example of an apple orchard villager in the Wye Valley of Wales, where her dignified duchess was treated as a small apple by the farmer, and looking at the bitten apple on the interface, it seemed to imply something, which made the duchess blush.
The Duke was beside Madame to teach her how to search, and looked at Madame strangely: "What's the matter?" Enter the word you want to search for. ”
The Duchess hurriedly adjusted her mentality and asked a little flusteredly, "What's good to lose?" ”
Duke Ron said triumphantly, "Try 'Canada**." He was proud because the first item in the search results was a news item from The Telegraph, titled "The results of the referendum in the Dominion of Canada: No." It proved that he, the viceroy of Canada, was the most prominent of the British Empire, retaining one of the most important colonies for Britain.
In fact, this is the result of my own sacrifice! The Duchess wanted to slap her husband in the face, but she couldn't, and she was so uncomfortable that her face turned redder. The Duke thought it was the Madame who was pleased with her achievement.
It was mentioned in that news that of all the four continents inhabited by the world, only the North American Entente has a preponderance in terms of area and population, because there are Japanese Alasra, the United States of America, the Confederate States of America, and most importantly, Canada.
However, Canada, the world's largest country, has a population of less than 4 million, and its economy is naturally far inferior to that of the United States.
Due to the recent all-out confrontation between the Entente countries and the United Nations, the economy has declined very severely, and a large amount of capital has flowed into the west from New York, and the GDP of the United States in the west has soared by 30 percent, and is expected to exceed $8 billion this year, while Canada and North and South America together have only $2.5 billion.
In addition to India, Germany, and the Soviet Union, the United States in the west has also ceremoniously surpassed the headquarters of the British Empire.
It is really out of place that the current western United States is so powerful, but it still uses the name of the Confederate States of America agreed upon a few years ago.
The official name of the West United States became: the American Republic, therepublierica. Of course, the army became the Republican Guard. When you tell people that you are an American in the future, you have to make it clear that Luo, is it the United States or the Union or the Republic?
If you are a citizen of the republic, then everyone will give a thumbs up: cattle, because the per capita GDP of the republic is the highest in the world, as high as 430 US dollars, while the other two small partners are only 110 US dollars, which is a huge difference.
Originally, it was not so exaggerated, but the massive flight of capital from the New York Stock Exchange instantly widened the distance between the two, and the originally confident United States people suddenly became poor. You know, the $110 is at the same level as New Guinea.
Of course, the United States is an exception, because it is a place of heavy culture, and many of the Allied nationals are poor, but they are quite ambitious, mainly because of religious reasons. Especially for people who are a little older, it is better for you to take their lives lightly than to ignore their beliefs, so in a country like the United Nations, which advocates moral degradation without faith, no matter how rich it is, it is not their dish.
Although the United Nations is so powerful, it has been slandered by the member states of the Entente as a "cultural desert" and a "moral desert". It is really not a good thing to forcibly unify the earth, so let's give these literate and moral people a respite.
Downing even began to tinker with universal suffrage in the G22 countries in case the United Nations itself fell apart, and the governors he sent out would be subject to the power of elected leaders in order to facilitate a smooth transition in the future.
The total market capitalization of the stock exchange in San Francisco has surpassed that of New York, and Downing is not optimistic about the open-mindedness of the Chinese Federation, and has given up on placing the headquarters of the United Nations in Beijing rather than San Francisco. There are also good reasons, this is a city of immigrants, people from all countries have it, and they regard it as a natural international metropolis, Beijing, there are really no such conditions.
The situation in Jamaica has now stabilized, and the first modern Olympic Games have finally set a good date: November 11. It may be a little chilly in European countries at this time, but in the tropics of Jamaica there is nothing to pay attention to.
Of course, the Entente countries boycotted the Games, and all member governments did not support their own athletes. But what does it matter? The population of the United Nations is representative enough.
Besides, the Soviet Union was separated from Russia, the Republic was separated from the United States, Australia was separated from Britain, Bohemia was separated from Austria, French Vietnam was also separated, the Chinese Federation was separated from the Great Qing Dynasty, and the Allied powers had their own representatives in the United Nations.
It can be seen that the Jamaican Olympics is quite representative, and it is also fun for countries that do not participate to see what their representatives will achieve.
What's even more odious is that even if the Windsor consortium completely withdraws from the Entente market, it still has a lot of financial resources in various countries, at least IBM is irreplaceable, right? As a result, Windsor Corporations will still be able to fund the participation of athletes from all Allied countries in a private capacity, and the funding is no less than the government's contribution.
The governments of Russia, the Qing Dynasty, and Japan were very face-saving and strictly ordered their own people not to participate in the Olympic Games without permission, but relatively liberal countries such as Britain, the United States, France, and Austria would not use any means to strictly prohibit them, so in addition to the Qing Dynasty, Japan, and Russia, not a single athlete came, the Entente countries also sent a large lineup.
The main countries in the United Nations that are economically and populously powerful are Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, the Chinese Federation, the American Republic, India, and Brazil. As for the Entente, after all, the official did not support it, and even if it had strength, it was left behind, and the most powerful Britain only achieved moderate results, only better than India, Italy, and Brazil.
Due to the use of P2P technology, IBM Internet has no pressure on the live broadcast of the Olympic Games, as long as the video is transmitted to Europe, the whole Europe will be downloaded from that PC, as long as it is transmitted to a certain country, that country will be downloaded from the domestic PC, and so on, to the province to the city to the town to the village, all the live programs are so smooth that people can't look at it directly.
Edison's group of experts still don't know about the content distribution mechanism of the IBM Internet, and they themselves even share pictures as a luxury, and they are stunned by the results of their subordinates that most of the world's PCs watch the Olympic Games smoothly, and some early PCs don't support video at all, so there is no way.
If you remember, Downing once built sculpture parks in major cities around the world, and at this time, Olympic medalists had to scan their full-body portraits and carve them remotely in all sculpture parks for people all over the world to see.
These medal winners also have to pose with their project-related props so that the audience can see at a glance what the owner is doing.
The Windsor Consortium's tricks of making money are really ingenious, and it obtained commercial authorization from these national heroes for the first time, and divided it with the athletes to launch figures in various poses and materials.
Generally speaking, the gold medal winner will have a large amount of money from that country to buy a small gold statue to collect, and the silver medalist will have a large amount of money to buy a small silver statue to collect, and the bronze medal is a small bronze statue.
One of the hottest gold statues is a French athlete, because of the Franco-German War, France and Germany formed an enemy, and it happened that their men's football team competed for the gold medal in the only ball game that the world paid the most attention to, France defeated Germany 3-2, and the captain of the French team was naked? Ben became the most famous athlete in the world.
The German team is stronger than the French team, but the football is round, and it is hard to lose to the opponent in the championship match.
That gold medal match was probably the best of all competitions.
The French football captain has set two all-time firsts, the first men's gold medal and the first bare? The volume shot appears in the video.
The reactions of the Qing, Japan, Russia and China who did not participate in the competition were different, and the more open Japanese and Russians felt that the Olympics were quite interesting, and regretted not participating in the Games, and I could say in a big way: "Look, something happened, the United Nations is really a morally degraded and incorruptible organization, if it is our live broadcast, we will definitely have a ten-minute delay, and we will never allow the occurrence of live broadcast accidents." ”
The reason why the French captain is so excited is because they defeated the powerful German chariot, and until the moment the French men's football team won the championship, Germany has been at the top of the gold medal table and has never fallen, so can the French not be excited to win the most valuable men's gold medal?
In addition to this strange man in France, there is also a women's figure that is the most popular. She is also a champion, the martial arts champion of the Chinese Federation. Tang Ning likes to watch martial arts performances the most, but what he was most shocked by was the identity of this woman, he actually knew - Xuedaiba!
It's strange that this Japanese girl will represent the Chinese Federation in the competition. It turned out that her younger brother Xue Daiyuan had been gangsters in Shanghai, and fused Chinese and Japanese martial arts to create the "Tiger Fu Absolute Sword Style". Martial arts are mainly fancy performances, and the mixed trick knife performance of these two sisters and brothers is very exciting, plus they are beautiful, and they have won the gold medal in the unrestricted trick martial arts performance.
Tang Ning only watched the gold medal competition, and he had never seen the two siblings before until he saw them win the championship. The underworld is not easy, our little brother Xue Daiyuan actually has to rely on martial arts performances to make a living, and he also brought his sister here. Because they were mixed in the ranks of the Chinese Federation, they also changed their Chinese names, one was called Dai Yuan, and the other was called Dai Fang, and Tang Ning was not sure that this girl was really Xuedaiba.
Tang Ning, who originally had a red paper-cut dragon painted with the symbol of the Chinese Federation on his face to disguise ordinary spectators, temporarily decided to award gold medals to the two siblings to see who she was and why she was competing.
The Olympic Organizing Committee also temporarily gave him the identity of vice chairman of the Organizing Committee from the Chinese Federation, and swaggered up to present awards to the two of them under a false identity in the spotlight