Silicon Valley

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Mittal was surprised why Henry Williams came to buy his company.

"Mr. Mittal, Mr. Williams has decided to merge Williams Steel and the Mittal Group into a new company, 75% for us and 25% for you."

"Surprisingly, how could Mr. Williams take a fancy to the Mittal Group?"

"Haha, to be precise, it should be Mr. Mittal's talent! Mr. Williams explained that after the merger of the two companies, in order to keep a low profile, the name of the new company is still called Mittal Group, and the company is owned by you. Take full responsibility! There are no special circumstances and will not interfere in company affairs. However, if the Mittal Group needs help, just let him know."

Mittal thought about it carefully. There are too many companies under Henry Williams' name, and he can't manage it alone. The new company is actually managed by himself! Although the shares on his side are only 25%, but with Henry Williams as his support, funds, resources, contacts, etc., will be greatly helped, and the company's development speed will definitely be fast!

Mittal agreed immediately.

"Okay, I promise! The Mittal Group and Williams Steel merge!!!"

"Mr. Mittal, this will definitely be your wisest decision! First of all, I congratulate you here. I believe that in a few years, the whole world will know your name, and your Mittal's name will be the same as that of World Steel. The kings are united!"

"thanks!"

Soon, word spread about the merger of Williams Steel and the Mittal Group. The world's major media and industry companies are paying attention to Williams Steel's next move. They originally thought they would acquire a world-class large steel company, but they did not expect to acquire a medium-sized steel company with a market value of less than $1 billion. This obviously does not match the style of Henry Williams.

However, this has reassured other steel companies a lot.

"Henry Williams still knows what to do and hasn't cut off our money."

"Mittal Group is just a company of average size, and Williams Steel is even just a newly established company. After the merger of the two companies, it is just that, the scale is not large, and it does not pose much threat to us!"

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A week later, Mittal himself traveled to Melbourne to sign Henry's contract. Henry is chairman of the Mittal Group, Mittal is CEO, and the company is temporarily headquartered in Melbourne.

The Mittal Group is small in scale, but the technology is good, and the quality of the steel smelted is very good!

In line with the principle that the fertilizer does not flow to outsiders, Henry contacted the company under his name that needed to use steel, and transferred all the orders to the Mittal Group. This has greatly increased the business volume and strength of the Mittal Group!

Seeing this, Mittal himself knew that his decision was the right one. In his opinion, the merger of the two companies was almost a pie in the sky for him, but fortunately he caught it.

"Mittal, Alpha's warehouse robot has been developed and is preparing for mass production. The Mittal Group needs to speed up its expansion to ensure that the production capacity can meet our needs! In addition, we will strengthen technology in the future to produce some special Aerospace steel. I know that Mittal's temporary technology is not enough, but I have hired a headhunter company to dig talents in Japan, Europe, the United States and other places..."

"Mr. Williams, please rest assured, I will attach great importance to the research and development of technology!"

"Well, technology is the key! In fact, other companies under my name can support the Mittal Group, and even make him a steel giant, but if the technology is not good, and qualified products cannot be produced, even if I want to take care of Mi The Tal Group is also powerless!!!"

"clear!"

"Okay, that's it, I'm going back to America today! Alpha has an important meeting waiting for me!"

After Henry explained to Mittal, he flew back to the United States that day.

He first went to Williams Manor to learn about the situation at home.

Although Karena, Helen and Princess Ulysses reluctantly agreed with Henry and Naomi, they firmly disagreed with her living at home. Henry thought, if you don't agree, then you don't agree. It's okay to live at the Beverly Hills villa. After leaving Williams Manor, Naomi immediately went to the crew to audition and became the heroine of "Mulan Hedao". Then, along with the crew, prepare for the shooting.

Henry has been in Melbourne for a long time, and now it is more than February 2000.

After years of research, the warehouse robot developed by Alpha company has finally matured in technology. It is very smooth in moving, transporting, releasing, etc. Although this warehouse robot is only composed of a tractor and two tentacles, the most important thing is the entire warehouse. robotic system.

Warehouse robotic systems need to deal with a variety of situations, identify goods, identify directions, choose transportation paths, avoid obstacles, accept instructions, etc. These are all intelligent, not human-controlled.

When Henry came to Alpha, the company's CEO, Raibert, greeted him.

"Chairman, you are here!"

"Well, let's have a meeting now, I want to know about the company's situation!"

"Yes!"

Half an hour later, the Alpha company conference room.

Henry sat on the chief and nodded to Raibert, "Let's start!"

"Um!"

Raibert responded and immediately began to introduce the current situation of Alpha company: "At present, in addition to the completion of research and development of Alpha company's warehouse robots, among military robots, robot dogs have been greatly improved, both in terms of stability and speed. It has been improved. And the bipedal bionic robots have also made good progress…”

"At the same time, we and icq, together with the siri smart program, have now designed a robot DAILY!"

After talking for more than ten minutes, Raibert said to Henry: "Chairman, the situation in the company is probably like this!"

While listening to Raibert, Henry browsed the company's presentation PPT on the computer, which included the introduction of the company's products, including text and pictures.

l After Raibert finished speaking, Henry nodded to him, "Very good! Since that's the case, let's start mass production of Alpha's warehouse robots. Every FedEx warehouse must use warehouse robots as soon as possible!!! "

"Okay!" Everyone nodded in unison.

Then Henry said: "As for the robot Derpy, it looks pretty good. It's not big, and it's round and cute. The front of the whole body is a face-shaped LCD screen, which is used as its mouth by lighting up a purple flash. Nose and eyes. Because of the different lighting positions, a rich expression is formed!”

Henry turned to look at Raibert and asked, "Is the voice a machine voice or a human voice?"

Raibert paused and replied, "It's a machine sound!"

"Contact icq and ask them to add a human voice to the siri smart program, preferably a girl's voice, which is lovely and cute! The machine voice is cold, and users feel a sense of intimacy when faced with such a voice!"

"Well, I see, I will inform icq over there!"

After reading the information, Henry closed the screen of the laptop and said, "By the way, Raibert, have you heard of androids?"

"I've heard it. The term android was first coined in the 1970s, when a sci-fi TV series called 'The $6 Million Human' was popular in the US, in which people saw an astronaut nearly die on a mission, Later, its limbs were reconstructed by artificial organs. Therefore, bionics mainly refer to people who use artificial organs! Of course, it is not limited to humans, but also robots!" Raibert couldn't help looking at Henry and asked, "Chairman , do you want Alpha to develop androids?"

"Yes, I intend to let Alpha company develop bionics. I will let Gene Umbrella cooperate with you to develop artificial organs, including skin, hair, liver, heart, etc... You say, cold robots and flesh-and-blood bionics Which would be more popular?"

Henry paused and said, "The android project is temporarily based on technical reserves. By the way, how many researchers does Alpha currently have?"

"Alpha company has a total of 100,000 employees, including more than 60,000 engineers!!!" Raibert said confidently and proudly, "Alpha company has very few production workers. Before, we dug a lot of Japanese computer numerical control systems. Talents in the field, and then developed an automated CNC machine tool, using robots to produce robots!"

"Using robots to produce robots? So, Alpha has become the second company in the world that can use robots to produce robots after 'Fanuc'!!" Henry was very happy when he heard this.

"Yes, Chairman!"

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"What's the matter, FedEx is laying off employees?"

"Yeah! I really don't understand. The rise of e-commerce has made the express industry very popular. How can FedEx lay off employees?"

"As far as I know, most of these fired are warehouse workers!"

"Warehouse workers? The importance of warehouse workers to express companies is self-evident. Without them, warehouse management will be chaotic, and the delivery time will definitely be greatly delayed. How could FedEx do this?"

The FedEx layoff incident caused a huge sensation in the industry, and tens of thousands of people were dismissed in two months.

As a result, many reporters wanted to visit the FedEx warehouse to find the reason, but they were all turned away. But this makes it even more suspicious! And what is puzzling is that FedEx has laid off a large number of warehouse workers, but the speed of express delivery has improved a lot!

There are no airtight walls in the world. The reporters heard that FedEx used warehouse robots to replace the original workers. For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the outside world, and the news of FedEx's use of robots was also reported many times. However, the outside world has no way of knowing what is inside the FedEx warehouse.

In fact, in the past two months, under Alpha's fully automated and mechanized production, the factory produced a total of 20,000 warehouse robots. During this period, Alpha began to help FedEx install the corresponding supporting equipment.

On April Fool's Day, April 1, 2000, 20,000 warehouse robots were delivered to thousands of FedEx warehouses in the United States. It was on this day that Henry announced that the FedEx warehouse was shown to the outside world!

Then, reporters rushed to the FedEx warehouse to find out.

As a result, as soon as I walked in, I was dumbfounded.

God, what is this! Robot army? ! !

I saw the dense number of robots in the warehouse carrying the goods, and the actions were orderly, which was spectacular!

"FedEx is really awesome, they all use robots!"

The reporters couldn't help but frantically press the shutter of the camera to take pictures.

"Excuse me, which company produced these robots?" the reporter asked.

"Alpha Company!"

"Alpha Company? I think it's Henry Williams' company?!"

"Yes, it is Mr. Williams' company." The head of FedEx smiled. "This robot is a warehouse robot, which is just one of Alpha's products. In the future, Alpha will also develop delivery. Robots, FedEx will directly use robots to deliver goods!!!”

"Can the robot deliver?"

The reporters were shocked and felt that the Alpha company was so awesome. They looked at the head of FedEx and waited for him to continue talking, but the head of FedEx smiled and said nothing.

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That day, news of FedEx's use of warehouse robots spread around the world.

"Warehouse robot? Damn it, it's a bunker, FedEx is really awesome!"

"Oh god, it's just an army of robots, here comes the army of Terminators!"

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As the FedEx warehouse robot thing becomes more and more intense, it has caused widespread discussion in the society.

Many economists have analyzed: "Robots are cheap, much lower than labor costs, and tireless and efficient. FedEx's introduction of warehouse robots for automated management is the future trend!!!"

And some people think: "When robots replace human beings, human beings can only be laid off and unemployed. Too many unemployed people will cause instability to society! This is a disguised act of destroying human beings themselves!"

Some people worry: "If a robot has a mind, will it still be at the mercy of others?"

Various discussions have emerged one after another, but major express companies around the world have consulted Alpha for warehouse robots. FedEx replaced tens of thousands of employees with 20,000 robots, saving too much labor costs. A warehouse robot costs 10,000 US dollars, while the salary of an ordinary warehouse worker is about 2,000 US dollars, and one can buy one in only five months. While workers work eight hours a day, warehouse robots can work 24 hours a day. Moreover, the service life of warehouse robots is at least 3 years.

Obviously, the cost of warehouse robots is much lower than that of workers, and the office efficiency is much higher! Merchants are chasing profits, and express delivery companies also hope to use robots instead of manual labor!

It didn't take long for Alpha to receive orders for more than 100,000 warehouse robots. Among them, FedEx ordered another 60,000 units to be installed in Europe, China, Southeast Asia and other places...

At this moment, Henry came to the Gene Umbrella Company and told them to develop a bionic man with Alpha.

"Artificial organs are very useful in medicine and can replace unhealthy organs of patients. Also, if Gene Umbrella can make kidneys, the price of kidneys will be cheaper, and fewer people will sell kidneys to buy mobile phones!"

"Selling kidneys to buy mobile phones?" Professor Thomson said in surprise.

Henry found that he had slipped his tongue, and couldn't help but smiled awkwardly, "Hehe, it's just an analogy... I mean, there are many criminals in the world who dig up other people's organs to sell, if the organs are cheap, These outlaws wouldn't take such a big risk!"

After Henry finished speaking, he planned to leave the Gene Umbrella Company. At this time, Professor Thomson called him and said, "Chairman, please come to the laboratory with me, I have a good thing for you!"

"What good stuff?" Henry showed a curious expression.

"Hehe, you'll know when you go!" Professor Thomson smiled and deliberately sold off.

Henry followed Professor Thomson to the laboratory.

At this time, Professor Thomson took out a bottle of red medicine from the safe.

"Chairman, this is a special medicine that we have specially developed for you to promote fertility!" Professor Thomson took a drop of medicine with a straw, put it on the detector on the laboratory bench, and started it for Henry on the spot. demo.

"Chairman, on the left is your sperm, on the right is the special potion I just put in. After drinking this special potion, it can reach the testicles, stimulate the vitality and fighting power of the sperm, and help to fight with the woman. The combination of the X chromosome! You can see the data of the Y chromosome on the computer, it should help you!"

"How did you develop this potion?!" Henry asked excitedly and curiously.

"Oh, and it's a coincidence that people who were collecting plant genes suddenly discovered a plant in the Amazon forest that has a strong androgen-stimulating hormone. The smell alone can make people excited, and then we focused on it. , and then extracted its essence to make this special potion! After many trials, it is indeed very effective!"

Henry calmly put the special effect potion in his pocket, "Is there only this bottle?"

"Yes, there is only one bottle for now. When you use it, you only need to drink a drop. This bottle is enough for you to use it hundreds of times."

"Um!"

Henry immediately said goodbye, ready to test whether this medicine was effective!

In the following month, Henry almost sang every night in Williams Manor. And I don't know if this kind of medicine can help Henry complete the reproduction of the next generation, but the urge to love is real, and the effect is very powerful, one against three is no problem!

However, after so long, there is still no good news, Henry almost gave up. One morning, Henry was sleeping soundly when he suddenly heard a loud scream of surprise from the toilet.

"Finally!"

"Honey, I'm pregnant!"

Hearing this, Henry bounced off the bed.

"Really pregnant!!!"

Henry didn't wear his shoes, and rushed into the toilet with bare feet. Princess Ulysses took the pregnancy test and cried with joy. Seeing Henry coming, she immediately rushed into his arms.

"The control line and test line on the pregnancy test paper are colored, and the color of the test line is obviously clear, indicating that you are pregnant!" Princess Ulysses said while holding the pregnancy test paper to Henry.

Henry was very excited at the moment, feeling that God had given him the most precious gift. He walked out of the toilet with Princess Ulysses in his arms, then put her on the bed and wiped the tears from her face. Henry did not hide his physical problems, so as long as there was a glimmer of hope of pregnancy, Karena, Helen and Princess Ulysses would work hard for it. After so many failures, and now that I finally succeeded, tears naturally flowed out uncontrollably.

"Ulysses, don't cry, we should be happy, the Williams family finally has a future!"

"Well..." Princess Ulysses nodded, snuggling into Henry's arms.

At this time, Karina and Helen rushed in listening to the voice.

As soon as he came in, he asked loudly, "Sister Ulysses is pregnant?"

Henry smiled and beckoned to the two of them, "It should be. The pregnancy test paper shows that she is pregnant. After a while, I will take her to the genetic umbrella to make sure."

"That's great, congratulations to you Ulysses!!!" Kaelina and Helen leaned over, happy for Ulysses, but also a little disappointed in their hearts, after all, the two of them are not pregnant yet.

After a busy morning, after breakfast, the Henry family went to the Gene Umbrella Company together. After testing with the most advanced equipment, it was finally confirmed that Princess Ulysses was indeed pregnant!

(To be continued ~^~)