Shen Bing leisurely hung up the phone. Just as he had said when he first announced the Smart Home project, he really did not attach much importance to this line of business.
It was not that Smart Home was unprofitable. On the contrary, it was an extremely lucrative project, with exceptionally broad market prospects.
After all, everyone needed furniture, appliances, and the like at home, didn't they? Once all household products were intelligently interconnected, the convenience they offered their owners would be unmatched by any other products.
These Smart Home products, working together with Intelligent Robots, would form a complete industrial ecosystem, offering advantages in everyday living, medical care, education, eldercare, and more, fully integrating high-tech products into every aspect of people's lives.
Smart Home could be said to constitute a massive industrial chain with a market no smaller than that of Flying Cars. Any company that secured a share of it could rake in a fortune.
Mr. Zuckerberg had called specifically about this precisely because he understood that.
Shen Bing's lack of interest in this business was purely because he did not want to spread Phantom Immortal Technology's resources too thin.
According to Shen Bing's plans for the company, the projects Phantom Immortal Technology directly participated in would mainly focus on core industries—those capable of greatly advancing human development or influencing the course of humanity's destiny.
For example, Spaceships (Warships), Intelligent Robots, "Firmament" Game Pods, and so on...
What could he say? Shen Bing had already risen above such lowbrow pursuits as making money.
Although money could be deposited into the Gate to the Immortal Realm and exchanged for immortal jade, Shen Bing had now figured out that these deposits were not unlimited. In fact, even the total amount of immortal jade he could ultimately obtain this way was