Taking AI Back to 1980: Building Cutting-Edge Tech by Hand

[Period setting + technology + System + heavy industry + no angst]

Back in 1980, Lin Jiang is still an apprentice at Hongxing Machinery Plant, looked down on by everyone.

He’s framed by a vicious department head right from the start and faces the threat of being fired. An imported machine tool that even a Grade Seven fitter can’t fix has blown up?

Sorry, but I’m back with a 2050 “Industrial AI Brain,” and I won’t put up with any of that!

One glance is all it takes to analyze anything!

What others see as industrial waste is high-tech raw material in my hands!

“Director Zhao, I could fix this German machine tool with my feet. Believe me?”

“Factory manager, don’t beg me. You were the ones who drove me out!”

Starting with hand-building the first “never-freezes” cassette player, he goes on to develop lithography machines, stealth coatings, controlled nuclear fusion, and more…

Faced with foreign tech blockades, Lin Jiang stands atop the world’s industrial summit and sneers:

“You want to choke us? Then I’ll snap your necks!”

This time around, I won’t be a pushover. I’m going to become the one and only industrial hegemon!