Tech Nation: My Creations Have Upgrade Panels
Chapter 21

A heartless merchant harmful to the nation?

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Lin Feng's video then moved on to the third point. This third point was glossed over because the topic was too sensitive.

It mainly discussed the grassroots evaluation problems within the system, pointing out that electronic office operations were not thorough and that various archives and meeting minutes still needed to be handwritten.

With that, the first theme of the content concluded. Everyone who had watched the first theme was left in deep thought.

Indeed, is all this formalism really necessary?

If all this formalism had a significant purpose, it would be fine. But the problem is that this formalism actually increases the complexity of work and study, leading to lower work and study efficiency.

But the video wasn't over yet. It then transitioned to the second theme.

The core of this theme was the usefulness of the handwriting robot, the problems it solved for whom, and its various applications.

The first point was its replacement of printers, allowing it to achieve the effect of a black and white printer. Due to its low price, more people could afford their own "printer."

The second point was its use in artistic creation. The handwriting robot possessed a unique handwritten feel, especially for sketches, which printers could not replicate.

In addition, there were many other aspects, such as in education, office automation, personalized services, assistive tools, and entertainment.

Each of these functions was explained in the video, and these were precisely things that printers could not do because printers could not imitate the traces of human writing on paper.

Through this video, people understood that the function of the handwriting robot was not just for copying homework, writing lesson plans, or preparing meeting materials.

It actually had many other uses, and those uses were precisely what printers couldn't achieve.

In some ways, the invention of the handwriting robot was useful, it was just that some people had misused it.

Then came the third theme, which was about what the handwriting robot could do in the future and in which direction it should develop.

The final answer was undoubtedly intelligent education, or rather, a writing education robot!

Although internet education courses currently appeared online, covering everything from infants to high school.

This was still too far from children. There was no human-computer interaction, nor any engagement. If a student made a writing mistake, they would continue to make it. Thus, a writing education robot naturally emerged.

With it, not only could writing tasks be completed, but it could also help people learn and improve their writing skills through interactive teaching methods.

After watching this video, much of the hostility towards the handwriting robot dissipated. People felt that although the invention of the handwriting robot had caused some negative phenomena.

These negative phenomena couldn't really be blamed on the handwriting robot, just like how knife-making was for cooking, but humans used them for murder.

However, no matter what, the moment a knife was manufactured, the maker inevitably bore the name of a killer. Although many people no longer harbored as much hostility towards Lin Feng after watching the video.

Lin Feng's handwriting robot had indeed allowed many students to be lazy and copy homework, so Lin Feng couldn't entirely shake off this blame.

Of course, even if he couldn't shake it off, it wasn't a big deal. With most of the hostility gone, even if some people thought the knife maker was evil, such people were ultimately a minority.

Lin Feng knew he couldn't win everyone's favor. There would always be people in this world who were unhappy with him, like Su Da, and some who were jealous of him. So, he just needed to do his own thing.

Moreover, he had unexpectedly gained a large number of orders from this incident, earning nearly ten million in profit out of thin air.

Overall, Lin Feng was sure to profit. He wondered what Professor He would think if he knew about this. He would probably be so angry he'd spit blood if he knew the truth.

The only concern was whether the authorities would adopt Professor He's expert opinions and completely ban the sale of handwriting robots.

If that happened, it wouldn't matter if Lin Feng defeated Professor He and his team ten thousand times. After all, if the authorities directly banned sales, he wouldn't be able to sell them.

Time continued to pass. As Lin Feng released videos on Bilibili and Youku, many netizens who heard the news clicked on the videos.

In this situation, the video's view count rapidly increased. In just two days, the total playback volume across multiple websites reached over 3 million.

As for the article Lin Feng posted on his personal Weibo account, it received over 5.3 million clicks. This showed how big the recent handwriting robot incident had become and how much attention it had garnered.

And as so many people watched Lin Feng's articles and videos, the hostility towards Lin Feng on the internet and offline quickly dissipated.

Facing this situation, Professor He was extremely angry. He had no choice but to post on Weibo again.

He refuted Lin Feng, calling it sophistry and a "discourse detrimental to the nation." He outright called Lin Feng a "black-hearted merchant of no benefit to the country" and urged the authorities to pay attention to the problem of students copying homework.

He appealed to Daxia to ban handwriting robots before they became fully widespread. Otherwise, if they became established, it would be much more difficult to ban them in the future.

Among these efforts, Professor He even privately called a high-ranking official at the Ministry of Education, hoping that the official would pay attention to the handwriting robot and ban its sales.

In response, the official at the Ministry of Education naturally couldn't ban sales with just one phone call, nor did they have the authority to ban a certain type of product. The official merely stated that they would assign someone to investigate the matter and asked Professor He to wait patiently.

Outsiders, including Lin Feng, were unaware of these events. No one expected Professor He to resort to such a sinister tactic.

It could be said that this phone call carried significant weight. When the higher-ups speak, the lower-downs scramble. The Ministry of Education would definitely start investigating the harmfulness of handwriting robots.

If the assessment concluded that handwriting robots posed a significant threat to students' learning, then the authorities might indeed implement a blanket ban.

It could be said that Professor He's move was too insidious and completely lacked sportsmanship.

That evening, at Lin Feng's family dinner table.

"'Discourse detrimental to the nation,' 'black-hearted merchant of no benefit to the country.' How dare Professor He make such a final judgment on our Xiao Feng and label him with such a big black hat!"

Lin Feng's mother, He Xueqing, was extremely indignant.

On unpaid leave at home, only managing the company's finances and looking after the online store, Lin Feng's mother, He Xueqing, had plenty of time.

So, she often used her phone to browse Bilibili and Youku, checking Lin Feng's account status.

She would like comments praising their product and was fully aware of the recent events.

In this context, she naturally saw Professor He's one-sided remarks.

But at this moment, Lin Feng's father, Lin Guohua, sighed and said:

"The handwriting robot we developed has indeed allowed many students to evade their homework. This is an undeniable fact."

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