The "Limited Precognition" experiment with the Mirror of Erised went surprisingly smoothly.
Perhaps it was Arhipovna's inherent purity, or perhaps her complete collapse of monetary values, or perhaps both.
In any case, the "memory alteration" process that Elena had planned did not unfold—Arhipovna directly saw the combination of ternary computers and magical energy in the Mirror of Erised, and they successfully embedded magic as a fuzzy quantity in electronic devices.
After a simple replication, the problem that had plagued the Hogwarts Institute for several months was instantly solved.
Looking at the device that had been running for more than fifteen minutes in front of her, Arhipovna still wore an expression of disbelief.
"This is really... unbelievable. I never thought of directly copying the answer—so, by extension, the research problems that hang in various fields, especially those conjectures that are extremely difficult to prove, can almost all be done this way..."
"Because your previous research and accumulation are sufficient, and in the meantime, we are very fortunate that there are no undiscovered theoretical barriers."
Elena replied with a calm face, "This is just the first step. Injecting magic into electronic components is a direction we have been trying before. What you saw is just the conclusion after compressing trial and error. It can't be regarded as an all-powerful magic mirror."
"I once thought about using brute force to test the numerical balance point, but most of the time we are looking for where the end point is..."
Arhipovna shook her head, "I can't imagine what would happen if everyone could accurately know the direction of the end point when doing research?"
"Anyway, it must be a bright and beautiful future, there is no doubt about it—"
Elena replied somewhat perfunctorily, glanced at Potato and Carrot who were curiously studying the first "magical ternary computer," and Lockhart who was explaining "timeline singularity" to Arhipovna, gently put down the pen in her hand, and blew on the ink.
"By the way, here are some subsequent arrangements, professors, come and have a look..."
While Dumbledore and Grindelwald, following the scene of Legilimency, jointly materialized the details of the ternary computer magic components with Arhipovna and a group of researchers, Elena had been sitting next to them writing and drawing on several parchments.
At the beginning, the two old wizards had paid attention to what Elena wrote, of course, unsurprisingly, they were all things they couldn't understand.
However, with the successful joint replication of the "Magic-Energy-Electronic-Ternary Computer" research group led by Arhipovna, their attention quickly shifted to the wonderful machine that could input and output text—you know, in Elena's description, that is the core of human civilization in the next few decades, even if the two of them have doubts in their hearts, they will give the "prophet" some face.
And after Elena's "plan draft" took shape, everyone immediately gathered around curiously.
Compared with a few hours ago, after the success of the Mirror of Erised, Elena's credibility has obviously increased by another level.
More importantly, Grindelwald and Dumbledore, after Arhipovna's success, obviously also thought of the role of the Mirror of Erised in the wizarding world. If the trust issue can be resolved, its assistance in the fields of spells, magic, and potions will definitely not be lower than that in the non-magical world.
"This is... what?"
Lockhart frowned, looking at Elena's manuscripts with some confusion.
Most of the parchment contained short sentences that he could not understand, and most of them were some kind of agreement.
At first glance, it looked more like a mixture of Gringotts Wizarding Bank's contract terms and English abbreviations, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, User Datagram Protocol, TCP/IP file transfer protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol...
And on another parchment, there were a series of unfamiliar names, numbers, and country names.
As the head of "wiB", Lockhart could roughly guess the role of the latter contents.
After all, a few months ago, his name also appeared on a similar parchment—at that time, the Titan Group directly dispatched three tactical teams with a total of fifteen people. With a sincere door-to-door visit, he directly devoted himself to the great cause without hesitation.
Not surprisingly, this should be a newly drafted "invitation list."
"These are all the things we lack in the follow-up, but we put them on hold temporarily because of the lack of hardware before—"
Elena pointed to the outermost parchments and explained unhurriedly.
"There are many connections between the ternary system and the binary system."
"From the current model and calculation results, the ternary computer can perfectly decode and present the existing content of the binary computer—but this process is almost irreversible, and sooner or later we will have to replace it with an encryption protocol that is exclusive to the ternary system. In other words, we have to start considering recruiting computer scientists to start building an architecture that is exclusive to the ternary system... or, a magic network."
"Uh... so, you're going to start going one by one... um... inviting again?"
Dumbledore glanced at Elena and said with a strange expression, "Which one is it this time? Professor Lockhart, or Professor Aleksey?"
If Dumbledore remembered correctly, Elena was a real demon when it came to inviting others to join.
"It depends, of course, on a voluntary basis, both are possible."
Elena replied sweetly, meaningfully tapping the parchment next to her.
"In fact, this is also a 'special rescue' operation. Muggle politics will eventually realize the importance of these technologies—and when politics and technology collide, it is difficult for pure researchers to remain neutral, and the Human 理存续保障機構 [Rénlǐ Cúnxù Bǎozhàng Jīgòu] (Human 理 Preservation Organization) was born for this."
"Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and researcher at the particle laboratory under the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In early May of this year, he released his web server and client on the Internet—he called it worldwideweb—this is a crucial signal for the arrival of a new era. If the wizarding world does not want to miss the train, then we must invite him..."
"Jon Postel, an American computer scientist and researcher at the University of Southern California's School of Engineering. He and Paul Mockapetris jointly drafted the DNS rules, and... in short, given their places of residence, we may need to develop special plans."
"Vinton Cerf..."
"Bob Kahn..."
With Elena's simple explanation, a series of "invitations" began to take shape in everyone's minds.
Perhaps they don't understand the future weight of these people, or the importance of their current research results.
In fact, in this winter of late 1992, most people in the world do not understand the meaning of these names and their research results—however, this obviously does not include Elena, who has seen the world decades in advance.
As the queen of Gringotts Wizarding Bank, the eldest lady of Titan Group.
As early as after the conquest of the former Soviet Union, Elena immediately began the investigation and statistics of these "tender" giants who support the cornerstone of the future Internet world. If the wizarding world wants to seize the opportunity in the future, it must occupy a position in the information age.
And now, the venue for the banquet is ready, it's almost time to send out the invitations.
"Perhaps we can't invite everyone, but we must at least find a way to get most of them..."
Elena recited this long list of names and their brief introductions in one breath. Not only Lockhart, but even Grindelwald and Dumbledore felt a little dizzy. This was not just a few or a dozen people's names.
On Elena's stack of documents, there were at least nearly a hundred names of Muggle scholars.
In addition to the leaders of those Internet projects, this time Gringotts directly provided the list of their respective teams.
And among these names, Elena did not fail to see some of the future big shots who will rise in various fields of the Internet...
Perhaps their life trajectories will change after they join the "Human 理 Preservation Organization [Rénlǐ Cúnxù Bǎozhàng Jīgòu]," but this will not dim their talents. At this point in time, since she has the opportunity to strike early, she will naturally not be half polite.
Of course, this is somewhat difficult for Dumbledore and Grindelwald to understand.
Unlike the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which could be deduced in those years, the information age is unimaginable to everyone in this era.
Even as early as decades ago, Dumbledore and others had used magic to establish a "book" similar to a video chat group in later generations, but that was only a privilege limited to a few people, rather than a true mark of the times.
Not to mention, the field of long-distance real-time chat is just a small branch of the information age in later generations.
Dumbledore rubbed his throbbing forehead and finally couldn't help but ask.
"So... what are the effects of those names and those agreements you just mentioned? Will it have a greater impact than the Soviet Union? Well, after all, from the description just now, these are more based on the communication of some knowledge and information..."
"Knowledge, never despise knowledge."
Elena raised her finger and said extremely seriously.
"Just like the importance of Hogwarts in the wizarding world, you should be clearer than anyone else about the importance of knowledge."
"If before the Middle Ages, royal power, divine power, and magic could deceive the people and distort the truth of the world, then in today's world where basic education and common social sense have begun to be popularized, this is almost impossible... they can only guide and instigate. And in the future world, when the threshold for obtaining information and knowledge continues to decrease, this change will be ten times or a hundred times that of the Middle Ages compared to our current society."
"Of course, perhaps these effects will not appear immediately at first. This is like the first Galleon being cast, the first wand being born, and the first spell being engraved. But as time goes by, it will surely spread all over the world."
Whenever she talks about this, Elena can't help but marvel at the wonderful time node chosen by the "original work".
In the short seven years from 1991 to 1998, milestones of the most stable and most dramatic technological and social innovation in the human world happened to appear, and at this time, the role of "prescience" can be infinitely magnified.
Strictly speaking, Elena can even take this opportunity to directly manipulate the entire Internet world and recast the glory of the wizards.
However, the wizarding world standing high above is not the world Elena wants to see.
Her wish is to completely break down the barrier between the non-magical world and the wizarding world, so that everyone in this world can feel the existence of magic, and let the power of fairy tales reach everyone, forming a new era.
Therefore, she must make a move in advance and grab as many people as possible.
It is not difficult to follow the original world rules, replace those superiors, and become the new masters and vested interests.
However, if you want to reshape an era, everyone on the chessboard cannot be accomplished by the people around her now.
If nuclear weapons are the visible sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of various countries.
Then the Internet, and even the lifeline of the entire information age, is the Pandora's box lurking around everyone.
Only by truly controlling these can wizards be qualified to stand on the other side of the scale in the future, and have equal dialogue and co-existence with the people of the non-magical world, instead of turning into another form of cold war—that would be too bad, she doesn't want to see that scene.
From the Internet age to the magic net age, this is her banquet.
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Hooray!