Because the original owner's memories were too vast and complicated, Chen Yuanguang had not received all of them in full. Relevant memories would only be awakened when triggered by events.
On top of that, this body had left the family's home district with his parents when he was young and had never received a complete family education, so he knew little about many obscure bits of common knowledge.
Chen Yuanguang discovered that in the original owner's memories, his father had spent some time in Lion City. Yet after returning, he had never mentioned what he had done there.
From those memories, Chen Yuanguang guessed that the Chen family also had assets there. He could only investigate further later.
Chen Yuanguang sighed. "This is the power of AI—compressing the areas under human jurisdiction to less than 0.01% of Earth's surface."
Shi Huilan spoke of these things with great enthusiasm. "Yes. The professor teaching that public elective you chose, Samad, previously conducted research in this area."
He believed that AI's role in transforming social systems had been revolutionary. Whether it was the First War, Second War, or Three Wars, or even further back in ancient times, regional social systems had been determined by people, with collective consensus shaping institutions.
But after Alpha emerged, it relied on force and administrative capability to make most people, voluntarily or otherwise, accept its management.
AI had forcibly turned its own system of governance into humanity's consensus.
Two years had passed in the real world. Chen Yuanguang had grown from a college student and online writer into a renowned scientist and entrepreneur.
Yet in this future timeline of Malaysia, he was still an unknown student lying low at the University of Malaya.
In the University of Malaya cafeteria, other students sat around Chen Yuanguang and Shi Huilan.