Nie Yun had not bound these Virtual Helmets to specific users this time. After all, what boss would complain about employees voluntarily working three shifts and doing everything they could to improve efficiency?
This approach did indeed create certain problems.
Leaving the helmet users unrestricted meant that the helmets' value could be transferred. They could be traded, for example, or divided up among vested interests. Some countries had even openly offered the hefty price of three million dollars apiece to buy them.
Of course, no country with any foresight would be willing to sell.
Sensible power blocs would put their best resources where they mattered most, assigning the helmets to the scientists and scholars best qualified to use them, improving efficiency and accelerating research to secure an early development advantage.
With an enormous technical database at their disposal, the countries were now competing over nothing other than how quickly they could digest these technologies.
Even America, the country least willing to see its technological advantage erased, complained about the unfairness while grinning and mobilizing every resource it had to absorb these technological treasures around the clock in three shifts, hoping to turn them into tangible strength as quickly as possible.
Even at the same starting line, advanced countries with robust research systems and formidable scientific capabilities still possessed an early advantage that others could not match.
The weaker, smaller countries might not even be able to find anyone who understood the cutting-edge technologies, let alone absorb them into their own research systems.
Whether the technological gaps between countries would narrow or widen remained an open question!
What could be predicted was that this technological feast would also spark a research race!
Although Nie Yun had not restricted who could use the helmets, basic identity checks were still necessary to prevent