The End of Technology - Chapter 251 The overall pattern of the new era

At the First Base on the Moon, Chen Xi was making a video call in the temporary dormitory that she had packed like a princess. After the number was dialed, Zhuo Mingqian’s figure was projected on the opposite wall in about a second.

Tim Cook’s judgment is correct. Ten years of progress has indeed changed the pattern of the world’s communications industry.

With the upgrade of holographic technology, long-distance information transmission technology, data compression and decompression technology, and the laying of cross-space relay lines, the communication time between the earth and the moon has been successfully reduced to less than one second.

You must know that based on the distance between the earth and the moon of 400,000 kilometers, even if you don’t count the time consumed by the countless devices on the way between relay satellites and information to receive, transform, and transmit signals, even at pure light speed, it will take about 1.28 seconds. To put it simply It is said that information transmission exceeds the speed of light.

And the distance between the earth and the moon is too close. It does not fully reflect the strength of this technology. Theoretically, if the future Mars environment transformation plan is successful, as long as enough cross-space relay lines are laid, information transmission from Mars to the Earth can also achieve instant communication.

If we go one step further and lay enough beacon satellites that can connect to cross-space relays along the road from Earth to Mars, then slow-speed spacecraft can also interact with the Earth in real time at route nodes.

This shows how great this technology is.

Of course, the past ten years have been an era of explosive technological development, and if a thoughtful person summarizes it, they will find that all these technologies are pre-requisite technologies developed to realize civilized space immigration. For example, the speed of information transmission is faster than the speed of light.

Think about it, according to the orbit of Mars and the Earth, when the speed of information transmission between the two will swing from three minutes to half an hour, the connection between the earth and the fire will be more annoying. If you want to make a call to the earth from apogee, you have to wait half an hour to get through. For people who are accustomed to the Internet era, this is undoubtedly unacceptable.

Mars is not that far from Earth.

If there is no innovation in communication technology, habitable planets further away may become enclaves that are out of reach compared to the earth. It’s okay in the short term, but over time, without easy communication, the earth’s control over it will become weaker and weaker, and God knows what will happen in the end.

It can be roughly referred to the control strength of the huge empire in the feudal era over its territory. The farther away the territory is from the center, the easier it is to counterattack or be directly subverted.

The era of space voyages is actually similar.

It takes several months or even half a year to really contact a planet. After decades, hundreds of years or more of development, it is hard to say whether the people there still admit that their civilization originated from the earth. History has fully proved that the collective memory of mankind can be reshaped. All we need to do is quietly revise textbooks and wait quietly for three or five generations to grow into a central force in society. At least in a certain stage of civilization, history will be changed beyond recognition.

Now it seems that at least at this stage, this kind of thing is absolutely intolerable to the earth as the mother planet.

…

“Uncle Zhuo, the task assigned to me by the teacher has been completed. My leave note has been approved by Senior Brother, and the information has been synchronized to the student management backend of the official website. Please help me contact a ship to take me back to the Nuwa tomorrow. Is it good?”

“Oh, let me take a look. Well, I have indeed received your application. Chen Xi, do you want to report back to the branch on the Nuwa or do you want to go back to Earth?”

“Uh? I want to go home.”

“Then let’s go to the Wu Gang first. The Nuwa has just received the scientific expedition and sample collection mission to Enceladus. It will be very troublesome to go to the Nuwa now.”

“The Nuwa is going to Saturn again? What is it going to collect this time?”

“The base discovered many highly active organic cells from the samples captured last time, so it is suspected that single-cell organisms may already exist on Enceladus, so this time the Nuwa brought more than 600 unmanned excavators there. This time The plan is to collect enough samples to determine whether there is life on Enceladus.”

“Uncle Zhuo, the Nuwa is not an unmanned excavator, it is an exploration-level interstellar exploration and collection vehicle. But why Enceladus? Isn’t Enceladus covered with ice? It doesn’t have an atmosphere yet?”

“Haha, then you really asked the right person. I don’t know anything about it, but I suggest you hurry up and go home to finish things, because when your teacher comes back, you may have to assign tasks to you again. If everything goes well this time, you will probably start to implement them. There is a plan to move Enceladus. This is a big project. Last time I heard them say that there are still more than ten plans under discussion. In three years, more than a thousand plans have been eliminated before and now there are still more than ten plans. …According to Academician Ning’s habits, I estimate that this last question may be your master’s graduation project.”

“Ah? Thank you, Uncle Zhuo. It’s agreed, I’ll wait for the boat to arrive tomorrow.”

“Well, please pay attention to your email. After contacting the ship, I will send you the time to pick you up. Just arrive at the base port on time.”

“Okay, goodbye Uncle Zhuo.”

“goodbye.”

…

After hanging up the phone, Chen Xi’s smiling face fell instantly and turned into a sad look.

Take Enceladus away and give it to Mars as a satellite, so that the abundant water resources on Enceladus can be used to nourish Mars and completely transform the Martian environment. This plan was proposed five years ago, but there has been no movement yet, naturally because it is too difficult. The difficulty is comparable to that of a particularly famous science fiction movie “Wandering!” “Little Breaking Ball” is comparable.

Even though the size of Enceladus is not comparable to that of the Earth, it is only about two-sevenths of the moon, but its advantage is that the entire planet is rich in water, or in other words, it is extremely rich in hydrogen and oxygen elements. As long as it can be successfully sent to the vicinity of Mars, after Mars gains enough gravity, the surface of Mars can be made into a small blue ball like the Earth, with more than 70% of the area becoming an ocean.

The problem is that these stars are constantly moving in a system.

Saturn has 62 moons, and everyone is in a delicate balance. It is almost impossible to quietly remove Enceladus. But at least the impact should be within control. These are actually secondary. The power of nature is very terrifying. Even if some movement is caused during the removal of Enceladus, it will naturally adjust to another stable state soon.

Even if there will be some damage in the middle, don’t be afraid. Anyway, there is no one in the entire Saturn system.

Well, radical environmentalists are probably going crazy. This is definitely the greatest damage to the natural ecological environment in human history. Fortunately, if you zoom in to the entire solar system, such a change is almost negligible.

But it’s still very troublesome.

Although it has been said that the number of plans has been reduced from more than a thousand to more than ten in three years, you must know that each plan is extremely complex. Once formal implementation begins, every step means a massive investment of resources. It is no exaggeration to say that the amount of resources and projects that need to be compensated for any mistake is huge, and the most profitable company in the world will go bankrupt in minutes.

This is a project involving interstellar…

When human beings could only play on the earth, the pinnacle of micro-technology – the chip was considered the biggest miracle of the world. However, when humans can go out of the earth, the difficulty and cost of any macro-project involving the planet will be compared with those before. The chip technology makes the latter look like a joke.

Taking this kind of thing as her graduation project?

Chen Xi suddenly felt a lot of pressure on him.

At this moment, she thought of her senior brother who had even won the Nobel Prize after ten years but still failed to meet the instructor’s requirements and successfully graduated, and suddenly she felt bad.

The senior brother is at least stuck on getting a doctorate, and she might be stuck on getting a master’s degree.

too difficult!

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Earth, China, Yanbei Space Exploration University large-scale scientific research base.

Zhuo Mingqian, who hung up Chen Xi’s phone, swiped on the desktop. Under the gesture operation, a traditional smartphone dialing screen was displayed directly on the desktop of the desk.

“Xiao Yi, help me contact Mr. Dupont Le.” After the casual instruction, the dialing screen disappeared, and the recent information about Mr. Dupont Le in many private areas or public media appeared on the desktop. While waiting to be connected, you can learn what this person has done recently by just clicking on the desktop, which can be said to be very considerate.

At least there is no shortage of topics to talk about when chatting.

However, Zhuo Mingqian was obviously not very interested in what the old gentleman had done recently, and his eyes were still fixed on the form being produced on the other side.

National Day was coming soon, and he had to sort out the new batch of laboratory upgrade lists.

Generally speaking, no matter how good the incentive policy is, it will become rigid and lose its original vitality after the past ten years. This has nothing to do with whether management is scientific or not. The main reason is that after ten years of accumulation, those talented people can often stand out and control sufficient resources. The rest have become the mainstay in another sense. For various reasons, I started to dawdle, or put my energy into internal consumption.

After all, it is a human society. As long as you stay long enough, once a circle is formed, there will always be differences between closeness and distance.

But there are obviously no such problems in this base.

The big players who upgraded quickly in the early stages have already been assigned to laboratories in space. Of course, there will be some scientific research experts who are not interested in those grand projects in space, and just want to stick to this one-third of an acre of the base and become the boss. However, such experts are really in the minority. Secondly, if the results are achieved on earth, If the standards are not met, laboratory standards will regress, and people may even be persuaded to quit.

Moreover, the so-called factional relationships and human relations found in any research laboratory are of no use here. Because the secret has now been made public, all personal laboratory promotions and demotions, and the amount of resources that the laboratory director can control, are all managed by the artificial intelligence system. There is almost no human kindness left to speak of.

After using almost two words, there are still people who can influence system decisions.

For example, Zhuo Mingqian, Chen Yonggang, and a few base directors. But it can only affect it, it is nothing more than adding some points to the distribution weight. If the punishment regulations designed by artificial intelligence are triggered, it is said that the only way to modify the system background decision is to find Ning Jie. For example, when it comes to internal unfair competition or suppression of achievements, it is one of the most taboo behaviors in artificial intelligence.

But so far, Ning Zi has never spoken out about any disciplinary decision, so this only loophole can only be rumored.

As for how Academician Ning, who protects students, decides how his family or students will not be affected by this system, it is actually very simple, that is, not to join the scientific research system of the base.

That’s right, Ningji’s students are not part of the base’s management, and naturally they will not compete for resources within the scientific research base. When they need the cooperation of the scientific research base, they can issue tasks through the scientific research system. Just like Chen Luo’s nuclear fusion project, it has received support from within the base.

At least within the small scope of a scientific research base, this proves that artificial intelligence management systems are more scientific and efficient than human management. The addition of various incentive policies has also kept the entire research base extremely dynamic.

The current base no longer needs to cast a wide net to find scientists to settle in. In fact, on the contrary, the base will release about ten to one hundred places around the world every year, and then receive at least thousands or even tens of thousands of applications. Applications, many of which are scientists working in world-renowned laboratories, are ultimately selected through the system based on their successful scientific research of three to five years.

Therefore, the day when the base releases quotas every year has been ridiculed by Chinese people as the college entrance examination in the world’s scientific research community. No way, having a laboratory at the base is the easiest way to have laboratories in each space fortress.

Take the Wu Gang, which currently seems to be the oldest and has the crudest facilities, as an example. If you want to own a laboratory of about 100 square meters on the Wu Gang, the rent alone will cost nearly 20 million Chinese dollars a month. This is only the most basic cost, not counting the cost of leasing or transporting various research instruments to the Wu Gang.

What’s even more annoying is that even if the rent is paid, the laboratory dispatchers still have to charge additional tickets when the Wu Gang shuttles back and forth with the earth. Therefore, for a personal laboratory, if you don’t have a mine at home, you definitely can’t afford to rent it. What is even more frustrating is that in order to ensure safety, research equipment and instruments that are not on the official approval list need to go through more than ten safety reviews before they can be sent on board.

But if it is a laboratory provided by the base, not only will all the above fees be waived, but a full set of supporting laboratory equipment and instruments will also be provided. Even if new equipment is needed, the approval can be simplified through the base’s unique channels.

There is no way, in this era, research that is divorced from the theme of space is basically outdated. At this time, humans all over the world have been whetted by space immigration, and the most watched science and technology news is about the progress in this great cause of space immigration. The collective will in the context of the times has basically taken shape, and any person or organization with different opinions can only be a mantis blocking the train.

Especially when the Mars transformation plan has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and the immigration to the earth is just around the corner, countless people hope to get a share of the pie when this great era officially begins. So no matter how high the price is, countless people will flock to it.

Science and technology are developing at a rapid pace, but the most advanced operating rules in the world have never changed. Things are rare and valuable, so monopoly can maximize profits.