In 2024, AI medical entrepreneur Lin Shen encountered the liquidation of his company and the breakdown of his marriage during the capital winter, but he traveled back to 2000 due to a mysterious code on a rainy night. When he returned to the Beijing newsstand as a twenty-year-old man, holding the words "China's Internet users exceed 10 million" on the front page of "Computer News", a technological counterattack spanning two decades officially kicked off.
Starting from a cardboard stall with "free installation" in Haidian Book City, Lin Shen relied on future knowledge to magically modify the hardware, bury the system backdoor, and use the 800 yuan start-up capital obtained from selling blood to make the first pot of gold. He broke into the Hangzhou Lakeside Garden and bought Jack Ma's team's Chinese Yellow Pages source code for 200,000 in cash, which gave birth to the "Shenzhen Gou. Com" and "Shenlanbao" payment systems in advance; he met Zhang Xiaolong in Shenzhen and deliberately leaked the prototype idea of WeChat; he teamed up with Lei Jun to build a Xiaomi mobile phone with a pre-installed self-developed system, and insisted on fully self-developed "Star Track OS" in the wave of Android open source, just to leave the roots of Chinese technology in the mobile Internet era.
However, the closed loop of time and space hides mysteries...
This entrepreneurial epic that spans the golden decade of the millennium uses code as a blade to cut through the wrinkles of time, and depicts a dream maker who refuses shortcuts in the gap between capital bubbles and technology monopolies. When the ginkgo leaves fell again in Zhongguancun in 2010, the medical AI framework written by the boy at the newsstand overlapped with the dying images twenty years later. An ultimate inquiry about the temperature of technology and the ethics of time and space will finally be revealed: the so-called reconstruction of code is actually the reconstruction of the relationship between people and the future.
It's exhausting and brain-burning to watch.