When Professor He honestly admitted his mistake, the hundreds of thousands of netizens who had come specifically to curse him out after watching Lin Feng's newly released video quickly stopped being angry.
After all, making mistakes was not frightening; what was frightening was refusing to admit them. Now that Professor He had acknowledged his error, they naturally no longer held any anger toward him.
They then became quite curious about Professor He's repeated calls to ban the sale of Handwriting Robots. Why had he been insisting on banning them?
Come to think of it, Professor He had been calling for this for nearly a month, hadn't he? Could Handwriting Robots really be some outrageously evil thing?
Driven by curiosity, they searched for information related to Handwriting Robots, and were soon shocked.
Several months had passed since the Handwriting Robot was invented, and many people had already come up with all sorts of ways to use it.
Using it to write lesson plans by hand, copy legal provisions, prepare archival materials, and take meeting notes were all standard uses. Using it to copy homework had practically become a trend and a routine practice.
On major video platforms across the internet, many students excitedly shared videos about how powerful Handwriting Robots were and how useful they were for copying homework.
Yet when adults watching those videos heard the students' comments, they could not help frowning, because copying homework like this was harmful to students.
A reasonable amount of homework could deepen students' understanding and reinforce their memories, while excessive homework could leave them exhausted from merely coping with it, or even mentally break them down.
But these students had directly started copying their homework. This was practically ruining countless students.
How could the netizens who learned about this not frown? They even began supporting a ban on Handwriting Robot sales.
However, before they could think about it for long, they were shocked to discover an announcement on Weibo that had reached the top five trending topics in less than half a day!
It was an announcement from the Ministry of Education. It clearly stated that formalism and bureaucracy must be rejected, that practical results and efficiency must be valued, and that the obsession with handwritten documents must be completely abandoned.
The announcement declared that the Education Network app would officially launch soon. From then on, lesson plans would be written electronically, reducing paper waste, improving teachers' efficiency in preparing lesson plans, and making inspections by superiors more convenient.
In addition, the article mentioned that the soon-to-launch Education Network app would support a scanning function. This function could directly scan and determine whether text was handwritten or machine-written, completely eliminating students copying homework.
Upon seeing the announcement, countless Weibo users exclaimed that Lin Feng was incredible, because he had successfully changed the world!
Although not a single word in the announcement mentioned Handwriting Robots or Lin Feng.
Everyone knew that this announcement was specifically aimed at Handwriting Robots—or rather, at the formalism behind them.
Through the Handwriting Robot, Lin Feng had successfully changed the state of Great Xia's education industry, directly freeing eighteen million teachers from the suffering of writing lesson plans by hand.
From then on, they no longer had to spend one-third of every day handwriting lesson plans. Although lesson plans themselves could not be avoided, they had changed from handwritten copies to electronic files.
After all, the level of fatigue from handwriting three thousand words and typing three thousand words was entirely different.
Just look at online novel authors, who wrote ten thousand or even thirty thousand words a day without getting tired. What troubled them was only how much time correcting typos and polishing their writing took.
So compared with handwriting, typing really was not tiring at all and saved far more time. No wonder this news announcement had entered Weibo's top five in just half a day.
The teachers were simply too excited and happy. It could be said that countless female teachers across the country would probably be unable to resist giving Lin Feng a kiss when they saw him.
If there were such a thing as favorability, Lin Feng's favorability among the country's eighteen million teachers had directly reached 99%. The remaining 1% were elderly teachers who did not know how to use computers to type.
Of course, to accommodate those elderly teachers, the so-called Education Network app would probably support uploads of handwritten lesson plans. That way, they would only need to take a photo of their handwritten plans with their phones and upload it.
Unfortunately, where one side rejoiced, the other worried. As Lin Feng's favorability among the country's eighteen million teachers soared to 99%, the hundreds of millions of students nationwide were probably going to be depressed.
After all, the so-called Education Network app could directly scan and determine whether something was genuinely handwritten or written by a machine.
That also meant they could forget about copying homework in the future. They would have to honestly do it themselves. How could the students not be upset?
Fortunately, alongside that announcement, policy documents were also issued emphasizing the need to avoid mechanical and ineffective training, and strictly prohibiting repetitive or punitive homework assignments.
However, those announcements and documents were far too official in tone. Aside from a small number of students, the vast majority did not like reading them and naturally knew nothing about the changes in the education industry.
But whether they knew or not did not affect anything. Before long, they would discover that the homework assigned by teachers had suddenly decreased, and there would no longer be passages that had to be copied N times until their hands hurt.
It could be said that Lin Feng had truly changed history with a single Handwriting Robot, freeing countless students from misery.
He had also successfully brought about the Education Network app, which had not even existed in his previous life, changing the situation in which teachers nationwide had to write lesson plans by hand.
Furthermore, because this app could identify whether something was handwritten or machine-written, it also changed the fate of countless students from his previous life who used Handwriting Robots to copy homework!
Of course, there was a price to pay. Among the three main groups purchasing and using Handwriting Robots were students and teachers.
Now, following the Ministry of Education's announcement, sales of Handwriting Robots, which were already below fifteen hundred units a month, would certainly plummet even further.
When the time came, selling a thousand units a month would already be cause for celebration. Monthly sales would likely amount to only a few hundred units, equivalent to losing more than a hundred thousand each month.
But for Lin Feng, compared with losing more than a hundred thousand each month, he was more delighted by the other benefits he had gained than concerned about how much less he would earn monthly.
Because following the Ministry of Education's announcement, Lin Feng's personal Weibo page received more than 1.5 million comments in a single day.
Nearly all of those comments came from teachers, who had come to sincerely thank Lin Feng.
They said that without Lin Feng's Handwriting Robot, the Ministry of Education would not have attached such importance to this matter, so Lin Feng was the greatest contributor to it all.
As they expressed their heartfelt gratitude, Lin Feng's Weibo follower count quietly rose to 4.82 million!
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