Superman, the Man of Steel, female, 6 years old!

In fact, for commercial companies, it is very difficult to deploy all the configurations of quantum hardware. The high price has blocked more than 90% of small and medium-sized companies that have ideas about quantum computers from a capital perspective.

However, modern society is an open source society, just like Android. No profit model can beat the free and open source business model.

Therefore, after large giant companies put quantum computing, which is currently only possible in a few isolated laboratories, on the Internet, many companies that want to join the future blue ocean of quantum computing have chosen to access quantum computing cloud services to gain future first-mover advantages in the market.

Financially powerful leaders in the field of quantum computing, such as IBM, can also obtain a better industry ecosystem and more cutting-edge applications from these small and medium-sized companies that access cloud services.

It also allows other programmers who have paid on the cloud platform or do not have to pay to improve the algorithm and software ecosystem of quantum computers for themselves.

Even for IBM's capitalists, there's no end to the money to be made. They don't need or have the ability to dominate the entire quantum computing market. Therefore, new models like quantum computing cloud platforms have become their best option for promoting their reputation, increasing their stock price, and demonstrating their technological prowess.

It was only after Anna's optical quantum computing was launched and made available free of charge to all laboratories and other commercial companies around the world...the current flourishing of quantum cloud platforms has suddenly ushered in a earth-shaking change.

Chapter 302: 400 million people access the cloud platform

The first groups to be affected by Anna's quantum computing cloud platform were research teams at companies like Google and IBM.

As soon as they received the news, these scientists were eager to connect to Anna's quantum cloud service.

After using their best skills, in less than two hours, these people were dismayed to find that Anna had developed a truly practical quantum computer, while what they were researching was garbage.

With the combined efforts of investors, UN diplomats and UN scientific research organizations, in less than a day, more than half of the members of these research teams jumped to the new company that Anna and the University of Tokyo laboratory had recently established.

For this reason, in just one day, after Anna's new company became a holy place in the hearts of scientists in the quantum field, she gained more than 500 of the world's top scientists who were already researching quantum computers.

And the remaining people did not break off their relationship with Anna.

These people are still using their previously obtained patents and engineering technologies in their original companies to research more advanced and easier-to-operate peripherals for Anna.

Although they no longer have a role in the CPU sector of quantum computers, other companies can still share a piece of the pie in the markets for optical prisms, various peripheral devices for quantum computers, the latest algorithms, and software.

After this rapid merger and reorganization in the field of quantum computers, within a short period of time, news of major breakthroughs in quantum computers caused an uproar in the external capital market.

In just a short period of time, the stocks of all companies involved in quantum computing began to soar, several times or even dozens of times. Yes, although companies like IBM lost the quantum race for the number of controllable bits, the very fact that caused them to lose was Anna, who brought the entire quantum computing industry into a new era of practical application and commercialization.

It was as if the entire Earth was about to enter the quantum age in the blink of an eye. And those companies that had previously lost the quantum race were, with the exception of Anna, the only high-tech companies still in the first tier of the quantum field.

Therefore, when the scale of the quantum market grows extremely in the next few years, even if these companies do not have a 100 million-bit quantum core, they can still make a lot of money in the market just by relying on a little bit of peripheral equipment.

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These are just high-tech companies researching quantum computer hardware.

In the traditional software programming field, the wave caused by the launch of the cloud platform is even more earth-shaking.

Because programmers are naturally highly integrated with the IT industry.

So as soon as the cloud platform was launched, news about quantum computers began to flood the screens of all programmers.

Many programmers and editors who have only a limited understanding of the matter began to exclaim at the news that after the highway toll collectors, today's software programmers will soon face collective unemployment.

So within just a few days, more than 400 million programmers with a sense of crisis were connected to Anna's cloud platform, and these people began to learn about quantum computers and the new programming system on the platform.

Some talented engineers developed some simple quantum programming and new algorithm software in just a few days and began testing them on the cloud platform.

Although most of the programs that appear on the platform now are used to solve specific mathematical problems, that is, small programs for one or several mathematical equations, they are not very practical for ordinary people.

However, the supercomputing power of 100 million quantum bits also amazed the programmers who already worked in traditional supercomputer centers.

But don't be fooled by the fact that 400 million programmers have jumped on the quantum computing cloud platform. After a period of coming and going, and a cooling-off period after the shock of the news, the number of these people who will ultimately stay may not even reach 100 million in the next few years.

In other words, in the next few years, there will be only about 100 million programmers who will truly contribute to the operating system and various software of quantum computers.

However, compared to the original team of Anna and her subordinates Kobayashi and his three men, these 100 million software engineers who come with their own food... are enough for them to improve the operating system and early ecology of the quantum computer.

Although it is unrealistic to surpass the operating system of traditional computers from the beginning, the development of quantum computer software in special fields is still worth looking forward to.

Anna knew that in her previous life, Evans Data Corporation compiled statistics on the number of programmers in all countries. In 2019, the latest statistics at the time, showed that there were 2300 million software developers worldwide in 2018. By the end of 2019, there would be 2640 million programmers, and by 2023, the number of programmers worldwide was expected to reach 2770 million.

Of these, 600 million developers are involved in big data and advanced analytics.

200 million developers working on IoT applications.

Four million developers (26%) use cloud-based development environments.

By the end of 2018, 29% of developers worldwide, or a total of 6,452,000 people, were using some form of AI or ML, and in the following six months, another 580 million people began using AI or ML for software development.

Most of Anna's earliest cloud platform trial users actually came from big data, advanced analysis, and cloud development environments.

This is because these aspects have only become hot topics in recent years, and the knowledge they have developed based on these fields has just been updated, so they have a better acceptance of quantum computing programming.

As for other developers in the fields of industrial operating systems, online games, and various mobile apps, even though nearly 45% of their professional developers learned coding less than 10 years ago, they will not devote all their energy to the field of quantum computers until quantum computers truly mature.

Chapter 303: $35 billion programming mission

It is easy to understand why many programmers do not fully invest in the quantum cloud platform business. Although the cloud platform provided by Anna is free, these programmers do not earn any income from it either.

In fact, many people know that although quantum computers have been successfully developed, they are not used to replace current consumer electronic products such as personal computers and mobile phones.

At least before humans enter the interstellar age, the positioning of quantum computers will still be like that of current supercomputers, and only countries, large companies, and scientific research laboratories will use them.

Individuals cannot afford quantum computers, and they only use them for daily needs such as browsing Douyin and Toutiao, so there is no need to use quantum computers.

As for the virtual reality games described in novels...

To be honest, even after all the peripheral problems and the problem of large-scale signal transmission are solved, this level of calculation can be operated by using quantum computers to perform calculations in the cloud and then return the results to users.

Unless everyone has an interstellar battleship in the future, strong artificial intelligence and quantum computers will be necessary... otherwise, quantum computers will be a legend for ordinary people in the short term, just like supercomputers are today.

Demand determines the market, and the market determines that classical computers will not become obsolete for a long time to come.

Therefore, for many programmers, even if quantum computers are put into operation, they will not worry about losing their jobs like toll collectors on highways. In the next few decades, if they only want to make a living, they will have plenty of opportunities to join the quantum computer ecosystem after it matures.

Most importantly, even if they all rushed in now, it would be useless because the quantum computer market cannot support so many programmers to develop applications for it.

Anna's prediction of a future of one million self-employed programmers is largely due to the numerous commercial companies hoping to capitalize on the future quantum computing market, as well as researchers affiliated with the United Nations.

These companies and researchers want to enter new markets, and when it is profitable, they organize their employees and students to study and program quantum computers on cloud platforms. That is why Anna has so many people working for her.

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With so many new programmers registered on the cloud platform, there will of course be a communication platform where everyone can exchange experiences and publish paid programming tasks.

However, this online communication forum is not Anna's business. Apart from providing the most core quantum computer, all other matters are handled by the laboratory of the University of Tokyo and the more than 500 scientists who have jumped ship.

For people like Kobayashi and the other two, in addition to their original programming tasks, their daily work is to connect and communicate with the joint venture company established by Anna and the University of Tokyo to ensure that the quantum computer can operate normally when needed.

As the most powerful quantum computer on earth today, Anna itself occupies the largest market.

So after the programmers on the platform were able to do some basic programming, she started posting her own tasks on it.

After the foundation and the three new gods developed the quantum computer, they allocated a total of $4 billion in several installments. However, Anna did not even use up $200 million when building the quantum computer.

In addition to using the remaining funds for her own private work and research, most of the money, that is, nearly 35 billion US dollars, was posted by Anna on the programming task publishing platform within a few days.

In other words, in just a few days, Anna raised the quantum computer software market into a profitable market worth $35 billion for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Even if this amount of money is evenly distributed among the next one million programmers, each person will only get $3500, which is not even enough for their monthly salary. Not to mention the four million programmers on the platform now.

Moreover, the tens of thousands of programs and algorithms that Anna required, which are worth $35 billion, all require all programmers to participate in programming competitions on the platform. Whoever progresses faster and completes the task first will get the task reward.

However, as more and more companies post paid tasks on it, this programming market will continue to grow in the next few years.

Quantum computers do not have much of a market in ordinary people's consumer terminals, but they have a huge market in industrial manufacturing, large-scale agriculture, artificial intelligence, unmanned driving, as well as national government affairs, intelligence, military and other fields.

For this kind of software and hardware package, each order is worth hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars, so there is no need to worry that the commercial programming companies and programmers on the platform will starve to death.

Well, Kobayashi and the other two have another task in the company. After Anna posts tens of thousands of programming tasks on the platform for a fee, their job is to take charge of Anna's task status, track the tasks, and review the completed programs.

With the platform and 400 million programmers, Anna broke down her desired programs and software features into tens of thousands of programming tasks of varying difficulty. The average price of each of these tasks ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the difficulty. For a skilled programmer, this typically took about a year to complete.

However, because it is a programming competition, these tasks are usually taken on by small and medium-sized companies, as well as studios with a few people working together. Moreover, they can usually compress the completion time of the task to within one month.

Generally, after each task has four or five competing teams, the platform will reject new programmers from joining the competition. In addition, during the programming process, all participating teams can track the progress of all participating teams' tasks.

When the progress is too far ahead and there is absolutely no hope of getting a commission, it usually takes about a week for everyone to see the winner of a programming competition and they can give up the task.

If the winner of the competition cannot maintain the previous progress, then as time goes by, the commission for this task will continue to decrease, and their credit rating will also be affected when they take on new tasks in the future.

Chapter 304: Salary increases must also comply with the Basic Law

Anna outsourced the quantum computer software on a large scale on the platform. This is not a new approach for programmers. This kind of programming and outsourcing method has existed for more than ten years. At best, the scale of her outsourcing at one time was a bit large.

This kind of programming outsourcing behavior is indeed attractive to programmers who live in countries with low living costs, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Ukraine, as well as freelance programmers who work in their hometowns in the mountains.

Although Anna's commissions weren't high, and were even lower than similarly paid positions in the US, these people didn't have to live in places like Northern California, New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, or Tokyo. Therefore, the teams that took on the assignments didn't complain that Anna, the capitalist, was exploiting them.

Well, if Kobayashi and the other three were to take on these missions, considering the cost of living in Tokyo, it would be a bit of an exploitation.

However, Kobayashi and the others live with Anna, Saikawa, and Kanna-chan, who are constantly emitting original energy, which causes the mental power of these guys to increase day by day.

Even Yamashita, who only saw Anna at work and in meetings, had already reached a mental power of 8 or 9. Kobayashi and Takiya, who lived with the energy source every day, had both reached a mental power of over 20 points.

In other words, even Yamashita, who has the weakest mental power, is now almost three times stronger than an ordinary person in this world.

When applied to work, the brain works faster, the reactions are quicker, the hearing and eyesight are sharper, the learning efficiency is higher, and the work is more powerful.

For example, Xiaolin, whose mental power has reached 28 points, is now programming at a rate 20 to 30 times higher than that of an ordinary person after she has mastered all the front-end and back-end functions and has the experience of independently handling the entire process of a project.

What was limiting her programming speed now wasn't her train of thought or any other miscellaneous factors, but the fact that her fingertips and the computer's response speed couldn't keep up with her rapid thinking. Even so... Xiaolin still achieved an efficiency that was about 20 to 30 times that of an average person.

But even so, Kobayashi could basically complete the work that an ordinary person could complete in a year in just over ten days. If she and Takiya were willing, and didn't mind Anna's exploitation and the commission that was lower than the average level of Tokyo programmers...

Then these two guys could definitely team up with Yamashita and take on tasks on the platform in their spare time. In a week or two, each of them could earn a year's salary for an average programmer.

Of course, in Anna's company, there is not much work to begin with.

Anna also used this method to let Xiaolin and others accept tasks on the platform to earn extra money reasonably and allow them to have more income.

Otherwise, Kobayashi and the other two, whose personnel relations and various insurances are still in the original company, would have to overcome the lifetime employment system and the seniority-based salary system of their original company if they wanted to earn a higher income, no matter how capable they were.

As for the job-hopping that employees in other countries are all too familiar with, and the "merit-first" salary system in Europe and the United States...

I'm sorry, but in Japan, job-hopping is seen as a sign of personal disloyalty to the company, and such people cannot survive in society.

If a company emphasizes meritocracy and performance, then some disadvantaged groups within the company will not be able to survive. This system ensures that the traditional Japanese corporate values ​​of unity and harmony, as well as the philosophies of "collectivism" and "long-term talent development" can continue normally.

Moreover, some solid and meticulous work will not be intentionally or unintentionally neglected by those employees who need performance and higher income. This will prevent the quality and reputation of the company's products from continuously declining.

Saikawa and his friends receive a living allowance from Kobayashi's company every year, but this is thanks to Japan's seniority-based salary system. Otherwise, given that Saikawa's father has been dead for so many years, if his original shares were transferred to Europe or the United States, they would have been diluted and swallowed up by other shareholders and management.

There are gifts given at the time, and invitations to company team-building activities and so on.

So even though Anna had greatly reduced the working hours of Kobayashi and the other two, and greatly increased their freedom, their personnel relationships and nominally 'official' salary income were still the same as in the old blood-sucking company.

Unless Kobayashi and the others no longer live in Japan, they will have to abide by the basic salary rules agreed upon by Japanese companies.

So even if Anna wanted to pay Xiaolin and the others more, she would have to use extra income and other means outside of work to increase their salary.

Well, actually, it’s not just Xiaolin and his friends who can take on tasks on the platform.

If Thor and the others worked harder and weren't so lazy, then with the super high attributes of these dragons, any one of them would only need one day to complete the work that would take an ordinary person one or two years.

However, these guys' power has already reached the level of low-level gods in the other world, so money is naturally meaningless to them. This is not the kind of meaningless as a certain rich man said, but the real meaningless.

Besides, each of these guys can easily refine gold, so why would they use it to make money as programmers for Anna?

So, apart from Kobayashi and the other two who would occasionally take on a mission and send the money they earned back to their hometown to supplement their family expenses, Thor and the others were still working as idle as usual in the restaurant.

Although the outside world is very excited about the sudden emergence of quantum computers, these people do not have much intuitive impression of quantum computers except that they can be used to play dodgeball.

In addition to working in the restaurant for a few hours every day, Thor and his friends’ favorite thing is to take their new pets, Gungun and Brain Axe, to the grassland for food camping.

During this process, Chef An not only had to take care of the company's affairs and several projects that were being carried out simultaneously, but she also had to happily prepare food for everyone at the camp. And this was not because others bullied her, but simply because this guy liked to cook for familiar friends.

Chapter 305: Cooking Western Food Learned from Julia’s Mom

Life is full of happiness, and food carries emotions.

No matter how the world will develop in the future, no matter how life changes, but for Anna, the de facto winner in life, this is her most beautiful and happiest time when she goes camping with Kanna and the others.

Although she had traveled through several worlds, the soul of the otaku in her previous life had not changed much even after becoming a little girl. So for someone, the grassland where she and everyone camped together was not only the place where she received the seeds of the World Tree that flowed from the source.