Chapter 131 Future Plans

  "Aida, you actually look better than her. I'm serious."

  Catherine came to this conclusion after thinking about it for half a day.

  "Don't try to comfort me, Kate."

  Aida pinched her own face.

  "Although I'm confident about my figure, this face is just so-so."

  The aesthetic views of Westerners and Catherine are really different.

  "However, it's you, Kate. If you were to act in a movie, you would definitely mesmerize a large crowd of people. You know, after "Red Alert" was shown, everyone was completely enchanted by Elizabeth. I bet they didn't expect there was a real person like that!"

  Catherine shrugged.

  "But Catherine, with your great talent, why don't you go into acting?"

  "Catherine shook her head: 'You know, Ada, I have limited energy and the Ark Group can't do without me.'"

  Indeed, Catherine is the helmsman of Ark Group, guiding the direction of the company's progress. Without Catherine's foresight, the company cannot stay ahead of others. Although the future will not decline, but to continue advancing at a pace that is at least halved.

  "Alright Kate. Uncle Hormann once said you have a gift for acting, it's a shame if you don't pursue it."

  "But we must learn to let go, Ida."

  Catherine listened to this and suddenly felt that filming seemed quite interesting. Maybe she could try it out in the future too?

  "Actually I still think I'm more awesome as a director... who knows, maybe in the future I'll be acting less and less."

  Catherine estimated that taking one photo a year was about right.

  For the next month, Katharine remained on location. "Flags of Our Fathers" was shot quickly, but finding actors for "Letters from Iwo Jima" proved difficult.

  But what's shot is better than what's not - as a capitalist, profit comes first.

  Now, US-Japan relations are on the rise, which is also why Japanese products can quickly enter the United States.

  Japan has given a generous subsidy to the US military stationed in Japan, known as "Daddy's Country". In this day and age, it is impossible to split the US-Japan relationship.

  Why bother with that when you can ride the wind and make some extra money on the side.

  Anyway, the set has already been built, even if filming is required, the cost can be reduced by more than half.

  Moreover, the box office of "Letters from Iwo Jima" in history is higher than that of "Flags of Our Fathers". Catherine believes that if it can be released in Japan, the box office will definitely be "powerful".

  In fact, this was also shot to comfort the Japanese people's emotions. Slapping the Japanese in the face and giving them a sweet date is something Americans like to do. As for domestic box office, Catherine didn't think it would be that good.

  But at this time, Catherine was holding a market survey and laughing because the price of that Japanese TV had started to rebound.

  "What's next?" asked Olsson, "Shall we press our advantage and drive the Japanese out?"

  "No, let them do it and get in touch with them. I think they're already anxious to make a deal. Tell them we can consider dropping the lawsuit, but..." Catherine held up another finger: "the standard has to be set by us."

  Prohibition alone is not enough, Catherine knew. Moreover, the relationship between America and Japan also determined that she could not do so.

  Moreover, if one does too well, antitrust laws will make things very troublesome.

  Although the patent for integrated circuits is in our hands, we can own more than 90% of Intel's shares!

  So Catherine can't monopolize it.

  She chose the standard.

  The standard was the boss, just like the later 3.5-inch floppy drive. Sony and Philips, Panasonic each received $790 million in patent licensing fees from 85 to 05, and just the patent licensing made these three companies a handsome profit.

  "Moreover, Olsson, you are the president and should be like Saunders, you should have some decisiveness."

  Catherine's "standard" sales plan is not too difficult for the other party to think of either.

  Olson nodded: "I'm just worried that the policy is incorrect and will lead to losses."

  "Loss is not to be feared, the so-called CEO, is not like those government officials, once a mistake is made, they must step down. An executive should take responsibility. In this world, there is no one who will not make mistakes, if a mistake is made, one should compensate for it himself, rather than using various methods to resign."

  Olson nodded, "I see. I think that maybe the new 'J-pipe' technology will give us an even more solid advantage in the TV business. Nothing can intimidate us now except for the law."

  "Alright, I'll go and write a report with the Pentagon too."

  Olson nodded, guessing it had something to do with Intel's Z80.

  A military version of the Z80 has been released.

  The military version is actually very simple, because looking at the Pentagon's appearance, it seems to be mainly used on guided weapons, so it does not need to withstand high temperatures and low temperatures like satellites, the most important thing is system stability.

  But Catherine's report was not about this aspect, but a new trick that came out of this opportunity.

  Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (FMD) technology.

  FMD is a floppy disk format developed by Steltion-3D, although this company has not appeared yet.

  Unlike conventional CDs, FMD uses fluorescent technology rather than reflective materials to store data.

  Fluorescent materials allow the disc to use three-dimensional optical data storage, and have up to 100 data layers. These additional layers may enable FMDs to reach capacities of up to TB while maintaining the same physical dimensions as traditional discs.

  Such an FMD disc, with full-spectrum reading of the disc, can read 100 layers of data at a time, with a data flow of G per second. In history, fluorescent discs were European technology, so they were suppressed by IBM - once this disc appears, all current industries will become a joke, and Blu-ray is just a fleeting cloud.

  In 2000, the first generation of FMD storage capacity had already reached 50GB, while Blu-ray technology took several years to catch up. However, after a few more years, the second-generation FMD had become a TB-level storage powerhouse.

  This thing costs over $3,000, and for civilian use, it's naturally not very possible, but Catherine believes that the military will be very happy to accept this technology.

  Catherine also had considerations for choosing FMD, mainly because of --- "Spectrophotometry".

  Using this spectroscopic concept to create optical fiber gate circuits and develop optical storage devices can be said to be a sharp tool, in conjunction with Catherine's fiber optic technology, even achieving computers that do not require optoelectronic conversion.

  Although it was something decades later, it was because I started too late.

  Computers were a new thing after all, and Catherine's Microsoft computer was a joke, but it showed other manufacturers the way. If Catherine wanted to stay ahead, she could only rely on her own foresight.

  Although these technologies sound far-fetched, how can they deceive people into pushing their own technological reserves without these concepts?

  Having had FC, Catherine would never let players play on PS with the idea that she was very selfish in planning for her own future.

  Just like now, Catherine is working with IBM to develop LaserDiscs, while on the other hand, she has handed over the beautiful future of fluorescent discs to the Pentagon, and Catherine herself is developing VCD format...