Chapter 994 Worries in the Catering Field
For Chen Mo, the update of the Matrix Shopping Center of "Oasis" this time was just a trick, but it still caused a stir around the world.
It has even caused concern and even attacks from many catering industry giants.
Obviously, Matrix Shopping Center is a product that "defines the way players live in the virtual world", which represents a big step forward for human beings to move towards the "brain in the tank".
If in the most radical science fiction novels, such fantasies may arise: one day in the future, the world's resources will be exhausted, and most humans only retain their brains into the nutritional compartment, and only need to consume a very small amount of nutrient solution every day to survive. In a huge virtual world, people are doing various tasks and continuing to contribute to society, completely unaware that they are in an extremely fake world, and they think that the delicacies they eat, the handsome guys/beauties they meet at night, the house they live in, and the cars they drive are real things.
Maybe those food and car houses are just a bunch of code and models, and the other half you spend the rest of your life with is the artificial intelligence system that is made according to your preferences.
Some people even wake up by chance and discover the real world, but instead think that this is a terrible nightmare and have to return to the virtual world at all costs.
Maybe it can really achieve the goal by that day. After all, it can be said that it is "very abundant material" in the virtual world. Even if the class still exists, it can ensure that the people at the bottom can have no worries about food and clothing and even get most of the enjoyment, so that civilians can also obtain the quality of life of the middle and upper classes.
"Brain in the tank" is a conjecture that seems to coexist with hope and thriller. People want to get a better future, but they also hope it is an absolutely real future.
In the parallel world, people's concerns about the "brain in the tank" have never been as serious as today, because such a future seems to be becoming a reality step by step under the eyes of everyone.
Of course, judging from the current situation, most people think that the emergence of this technology is good, because the matrix game pole will not have any impact on the human body in reality.
However, its impact on many industries in reality is devastating.
Although the previous Nuannuan wardrobe also relies on products from the virtual world, it is physical in reality, at least it is an online store, and it produces real clothes. Players buy clothes in the game, but they still have to buy them in reality.
However, this is not the case in the food industry.
Some multinational fast food brands, beverage brands and high-end catering brands have serious concerns about the diet system in the matrix game cabin, believing that it will seriously impact related industries in reality.
Some people even put forward a guess about the future: in the future, everyone will customize some "nutritional meals" on the Internet. The taste of these nutritious meals is definitely not delicious, and of course they are not unpalatable. Their advantage lies in their balanced nutrition and easy consumption. This fast food that has been concentrated for a certain amount of time will be like a balanced nutrition compressed biscuit or instant noodles, becoming the staple food of future humans.
Human pursuit of delicious food and nutrition will be completely separated. In reality, people rely on these nutritious meals to make a living, and their taste requirements are basically infinitely close to zero; while in the virtual world, people are enjoying the temptation of food, and there is no need to worry about gaining weight or being unbalanced in nutrition, because this is just a bunch of code.
Obviously, this kind of conjecture is not nonsense, because it has already begun to appear.
Although there is no relevant evidence to support it, many players who have purchased the Matrix Game Cabin said that their requirements for food in real life are gradually declining, because if only taste is considered, the food in the Matrix Game Cabin is even better than the real food, and is completely overwhelming in terms of cost-effectiveness.
In reality, if you want to eat specific food, you need to drive there, queue up, and then spend a lot of money to buy. Money is not the main problem, the main problem lies in the time and energy consumed in this process.
Therefore, many fast food brands, beverage brands, and high-end catering brands have clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the Matrix Game Cabin. On various domestic and foreign networks, there are endless slander articles about the "brain in the tank" and Matrix Shopping Center.
Some media even made a serious statement saying that the matrix game cabin is like alcohol and poison, and is actually using a wrong pleasure that goes against physiology to destroy everyone's lives, making them feel happy threshold higher and higher, and eventually lose interest in the world.
There are many similar articles, and some multinational fast food brands and beverage brands are considering suing Thunder Interactive Entertainment, demanding Thunder Interactive Entertainment to immediately stop "infringement in the matrix game cabin."
For example, the manufacturer of Feizhai Happy Water is one of them.
Obviously, the matrix game cabin not only moved their cheese, but even brought away all the milk buckets that made cheese. What if everyone really didn’t eat fast food, didn’t drink fatty happy water in the future, ate nutritious meals all day, and then went to the virtual world to feel the happiness of fatty happy water?
That would be a devastating blow to these large catering companies.
Of course, those who have opinions on this are limited to some patented brands, such as some of the world's cuisines and classic foods. Any chef can make them, so it is completely OK to use Chen Mo directly.
The internal attitudes of these big brands are not uniform. Some firmly require Matrix Shopping Center to remove its own food/beverages, so that consumers can only enjoy them in reality; some require Matrix Shopping Center to raise the prices of their own food/beverages to the same price as in reality, and pay them a high share.
For example, the manufacturer of Feizhai Happy Water has the latter attitude. They require the price of Feizhai Happy Water in the Matrix Shopping Center to rise to 3 yuan per bottle, and every bottle sold will be paid 2.5 yuan as the brand fee.
Obviously, these manufacturers have very smart ideas. Even if everyone really enters the era of "brain in the tank" in the future, then for these manufacturers, they will really make money while lying down and don't even need to produce.
However, this kind of pressure is basically not something that Thunder Interactive Entertainment will care about.
Behind Chen Mo is supported by the Travel Commission. In China, the matrix game cabin has bound a large-scale community of interests. These things do not even need Chen Mo to worry about. Naturally, some people will try their best to take advantage of loopholes and play edges to maintain this huge market.
Chapter completed!