Chapter Ninety: The Future of Biometric Sensing Technology

At the Fuyun Science and Technology Industrial Park research institute, Li Fu, dressed in a white lab coat, was talking with Yan Zhang, who was in charge of biorecognition research. The company currently had only one medicine, a treatment for AIDS, and that was its sole source of product revenue. Even so, it could still bring in twenty billion yuan a month.

But with Li Fu’s all-out expansion, even that looked inadequate. Moreover, Li Fu had personally taken part in the development of the Sky Arrow fighter, and he knew full well what a machine like that cost. A single Sky Arrow fighter came to more than thirty billion yuan, and that was only the cost price, without counting the many other expenses.

There were many precious resources that money alone could not buy. If a Sky Arrow fighter, capable of traveling freely between Earth and space, were ever sold commercially, it would never go for less than several hundred billion yuan. Of course, the state would never sell such a national treasure.

If Li Fu wanted to reach space, the stars, and the wider universe in the future, a solid economic foundation would be indispensable. This was a field of truly high technology and immense capital. With the funds he had now, he could pour them in and not even see a shadow in return.

So Li Fu had to open up new sources of revenue as quickly as possible. He needed far greater financial inflow; only then would he have enough capital to truly play in the space sector. Space was full of countless treasures. Not to mention anything else, merely being able to mine the Moon would already yield limitless resources.

What was more, if factories were built in space, agriculture developed there, and industries such as interstellar mining, interstellar energy, interstellar transport, and logistics were established, then any one of them alone would be enough to bring boundless benefits.

“Brother Li, since this biorecognition technology made a new breakthrough a few months ago, our research has moved quite quickly. At present, we can already use biowave technology to directly input video content into the human brain, but we still cannot accurately read the information contained in the brain’s electrical waves.”

“The human brain is truly amazing. Its leaps of thought and speed are far beyond what our current computers can keep up with. Even with the most advanced machines, we still cannot match the leaps and speed of the human mind. And the content the brain considers is simply too vast, the information far too rich, so we have never been able to read the information within it with any precision.”

Yan Zhang sighed helplessly at Li Fu. Biorecognition technology was already fairly successful at this point, but the human brain was simply too complex. Accurately reading the information carried in human brain waves was far too difficult.

“Yes. The brains of higher life-forms possess the ability for abstract imagination, and that is what allows civilization to develop little by little. That is something rigid machines like computers do not have. Computers can only run according to their programs; fundamentally, they can never keep up with the human brain. Even if future technology advances by ten thousand times or a hundred million times, in terms of abstract capacity alone, the human brain will still be irreplaceable, even though today computers already surpass it by a huge margin in raw calculation speed.”

Li Fu nodded. Even the super-civilization of the Han Technology Empire did not dare claim to have completely understood the brain of a higher intelligent species. This capacity for abstract imagination was precisely what distinguished humans from animals, and it was also the fundamental reason humanity could develop civilization.

“In our technical approach, we should make some adjustments. We only need to read the relevant major brainwave information; there is no need to extract every last detail. That should be achievable, and it would also take privacy and confidentiality into account.”

After thinking for a moment, Li Fu offered this measured suggestion. Human brains receive information extremely quickly, so there was no need to worry that they could not handle incoming data. The brain has a special ability to automatically filter out what is unimportant.

It was like the scenes we see every moment of every day: although the content and information are immense, the human brain only pays attention to a small part of it and automatically ignores the rest.

Yet the human brain has another marvelous quality. Information it has ignored can still be stored, and when later prompted by something, it can suddenly be recalled with striking clarity. This function was almost terrifying. If the principle behind it could be uncovered and applied to computer technology, then computers would never again freeze or lag.

What is more, when the brain encounters a thing, it can not only very quickly associate related information, but also expand upon it through abstract imagination, enriching and perfecting it.

Take something very simple, the moon. When you hear the moon or think of it, an image forms in the mind: the round full moon, the first quarter, the last quarter, the moon with stars around it, the dim moon without a trace of light, and so on. One might even very quickly think of the legend of the Moon Goddess, or of Apollo’s landing on the Moon.

And this was far beyond what a computer could compare with. No matter how fast it was, a computer remained rigid, able only to execute according to its program. The so-called artificial intelligence of today was merely a little better than an inflexible machine; it could hardly be called intelligent at all.

Of course, this did not diminish the power of computers. In single-minded calculation, in the reading and storage of information, the speed of the human brain was far inferior to that of a computer.

“We have also done related research, but at present it always feels like trying to see flowers through a fog, impossible to make out clearly. We still have no way to distinguish the primary from the secondary information contained in biowaves, and reading abstract information is especially prone to error.”

Yan Zhang shook his head. Mentioning this issue, he could not help but furrow his brow. They were already at the final step of biorecognition technology, yet they had been blocked at this very point. One could imagine the urgency and frustration building inside Yan Zhang and the others.

“It’s all right. Take it slowly. As long as we keep searching and exploring, we will always discover some pattern within it.”

Li Fu smiled and comforted him. In his heart, he already understood clearly that Yan Zhang and the others had nearly reached the final stage of biorecognition research. As long as they could accurately read the information contained in human brainwaves, biorecognition technology could be declared a success.

Of course, that would only be a preliminary success, still unknown how far it was from the biorecognition technology contained in the civilization seed of the super-civilization Han Technology Empire.

And once this technology was realized, the next product in Li Fu’s mind could essentially be brought out: biorecognition devices, with the two most important ones being the biorecognition computer and the biorecognition phone.

With biorecognition devices, all content and information would be transmitted directly to the human brain through wave signals. Human operation of computers or phones would also be completed entirely through brainwaves, without needing hands or speech, achieving a leap forward that would mark an era.

There was also a more advanced and high-end biorecognition communication technology. Once this technology matured, human communication would become extremely fast and far more secure, because every person’s brainwaves are entirely different, just like each person’s DNA.

For Li Fu, once this technology matured, Fuyun Technology Group could formally enter the electronics industry and overturn the computer and mobile phone sectors in one stroke.

If one no longer needed to stare at a computer screen to watch movies, go online, or play games, if one no longer needed to type or operate with one’s hands, and could even achieve faster input, then once such a computer appeared, all traditional computers would be swept away without a trace.

If one no longer needed to stare at a tiny phone screen, yet could still make calls, use voice, browse the internet, chat, and so on, and no longer had to laboriously type or send voice messages on that tiny screen, but could instead read information from the phone with closed eyes and even chat with friends in real time, then once such a phone emerged, it would, without question, also herald the end of all traditional mobile phone industries.

And more crucially, the current trend in technology had already been moving toward combining phones and computers into one. Of course, many features were still lacking in today’s feature phones, after all they were so small. But if biorecognition technology were used, then phones and computers could truly merge into a perfect whole.

In the future, there would be no need to distinguish between phone and computer at all. One electronic product would be enough, capable of handling all functions of both computers and phones, achieving a perfect fusion and an earthshaking leap in development.

The civilization seed carried by every citizen of the super-civilization Han Technology Empire was, in fact, an unimaginably advanced version of exactly this kind of product. With a single terminal device, a citizen could perfectly connect to the entire social network and read or input information at any time and from anywhere.

What Li Fu now wanted to research and bring to market was precisely this. And once such a product truly appeared, Fuyun Technology Group would be able to monopolize the global electronics industry outright. Then all computers, phones, and the like could be completely eliminated, bringing Li Fu a vast and inexhaustible stream of funds.

A glance at the current list of the world’s top five hundred companies was enough to understand. Companies such as Fruit, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, and the like were each colossal behemoths. And if one counted the many internet-related industrial enterprises as well, the scale became even more enormous.

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