OMG! Chrono Cross!
Let me start with some habitual craps.
First, have you read Lord Hawking's "Brief History of Time", no? Well, then you must have read the famous internet novel "combed black hair", right? No again? For God's sake, think for a second for the third question: at least you have heard about the Chrono Cross, Yes? Perfect, and congratulations, you’re finally grown up. In fact, the Chrono Cross I’m going to talk about today is simply a simplified version of Hawking's theory, which is beyond human understanding for a long time. To put it in a simpler term, through a very super approach or by a very mysterious machine, such as the time machine in the bag of the robot-cat Doraemon, and with a speed higher than the light and other conditions I don’t quite understand, you can somehow make yourself into the future. But you can be assured that you will not end up with a pig face like the pathetic Marshal canopy, who carelessly and tragically slumped into a pig house, instead, you will safely land in an exhibition hall of 6,000 square meters, and more importantly, you’ll be emotionally stable.
Second, Shanghai will hold the World Expo next year. The news is not new now, and even the cleaning lady knows it. So you must know. Expo, in simpler terms, is an event that, people around the world, be them fat or thin, high or low, and ugly or pretty, will all come to Shanghai, China, to show to our dear mother country the most fantastic things in their mind. In other words, you can view all the best things in the world in the 180 days during the Expo in Shanghai alone, and pretend that you have travelled around the world at such a young age. Whether you are pure or mature, blond or blue-eyed, I assure you will find one of your type on the stage of the Expo (believe me, the stage is much larger than the one for the super girls). It will be far better than the 16-day Summer Olympic Games, because what you can see, will be beyond your imagination, even if you are born a fantast.
Third, can you drive? It does not matter if you can’t. Nobody will look down upon you because once you have done the Chrono Cross thing, you will feel it just as normal not being able to drive as you cannot play a table game.
All right, now let’s start our Chrono Cross journey. Given that the time machine is out of warranty, and has carelessly used by Yasuo for so many times, now we can only pass through 20 years. So, here we are, in the year 2030. Don’t worry that you will get too old to take care of yourself after the cross, because time will slow down during the cross, so you’ll be fine. But make sure you have eaten enough before the crossing, because I do not know if people still need to eat 20 years later. You know, anything is possible.
As mentioned earlier, you will come to a shining building with a spiraling shape, yes, that is our destination today. Obviously, it is a thriving city 20 years from now. Here you can hear no hustle and bustle of car engines; you see no emissions from motor vehicles, or traffic congestion. Future cars look different; you can even customize your own car according to your handsome face. You do not need to drive, because at that time cars will automatically drive themselves. All you need to do is tell the car your destination, and the arriving time, and then you can do anything in the car as you wish: do your makeups, drink coffee, and play Mahjong on the computer, anything. (I think Sun and Zhang are more expecting the arrival of 2030, because it means much more to them, hoho.)
Of course, in addition to automated driving, cars can do much more. For example, if you happen to find your car broadcasting a very nice music, and you did not have that song in your car at all, take it easy, I promise this is not a supernatural phenomenon. This is because your car is sharing information with its partners. Theoretically, you have free access to information in anyone else’s car. I suggest you do not store all your personal audio, video, and photos, of course, in your car, because you do not know when the system will be broken ^ _ ^
Doesn’t this remind you of the time when you were asked by your primary school teacher to write a painful essay on the year 2000? I remember at that time, children all try to make the best of their imagination and came up with ideas like: you can get full marks without learning; cars can rash in the sky without any crash; and that robots will take good care of everything, such as the weekly cleaning. By the year 2000, we find that none of the wishes have come true; we not only need to study, but also have to study hard. Yes, sometimes imagination does not turn into reality, but you need to know, the building you are in today, is called SAIC - General Motors pavilion.
General Motors? Absolutely correct, GM from the United States. Buick, Chevrolet, and Cadillac and so on, which are so familiar to you on the streets, all come from this company. You might ask what does General Motors has to do with my life 20 years later? Well, calm down, and let me answer you.
Whether you are now wealthy enough to have your Mercedes-Benz or BMW, or your are on the way to join them, or you’ve just made a fortune and bought a Japanese or German car, or you are simply riding a two-wheeled bicycle, the transportation system in 2030 General Motors will bring you will change your life. For example, automatic driving technique can avoid collision. If by any chance you get absent-minded and do not see a car approaching, then our V2V technology, which is closely related to automatic driving, will remind you: buddy, please look around you with your big eyes (Note: also applies to small ones). Now you understand. In fact, General Motors has showcased the super V2V technology on September 24, 2009, in Anting, Shanghai. Believe me, this technology can guarantee that Shanghai will not become the nearest place to heaven like Hangzhou when the accident happened several months ago.
Also, things like memory metal, that is, metal that does not easily distort, fuel cell cars, purely electric vehicles, and so on will all be shown to you in the SAIC - General Motors pavilion.
By the way, let me provide you with some information on the history of GM and the Expo, which is much longer than the Yangtze River. Looking back at the days when the monk Tang Seng headed to the west in the Tang dynasty. Uh... ... seems not so early. Well, long, long time ago, General Motors, after it was founded in 1908 (very young at that time), has always been very active in the Expo.
A typical example is in the 1936 Chicago World’s Fair, General Motors for the first time put forward the vision of an Interstate Highway System. In just less than 20 years, the United States built the highway and changed the modern transportation. In fact, GM's innovation is far more than that. Today, some standard equipment for vehicles you are familiar with, such as airbags and V8 engine, are all masterpieces of General Motors.
Another thing you need to know when having small chats which will make you look well-educated: GM developed and manufactured the inertial guidance and navigation systems for the entire Apollo moon program (including Apollo 11, the first manned landing, in 1969). GM was also responsible for all mobility systems and components of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) that Apollo 15 astronauts first drove on the moon in 1971.
This is no ordinary super, you know the technology needed is even more difficult than when Bai Suzhen searched for Xu Xian 1,000 years ago. So let’s pay our admiration to the diligent and intelligent GM people!
It is almost the time for me to stop here. In fact, GM has a long story with Expo. However, for EXPO 2010, GM is not alone; it has SAIC along with it in the battle.
Ok, so much for today. Thank you very much for time and concern. I warmly welcome you to vote for me. Of course, if you forward it to your friends to vote for me, then believe me, you can certainly succeed in crossing back to today.
One last heart-felt sentence: Chrono Cross should start from the children!
GM is indeed the greatest and the most important in car's histroy. By the way, the author is handsome!