Chapter 378 The changing world
Japan.
By the scenic little lake, two RVs unfolded into a temporary campground, with a group of boys and girls camping outdoors.
If it were a year ago, these twelve or thirteen-year-olds would not be allowed to camp out of the city without the supervision of adults.
Japan's natural environment protection work is much better than that of Red Banner, so in addition to the more places where the scenery remains original, it also brings another problem - there are wild animals in the wild.
Of course, they don’t come to the stage, but wolves, bears and other beasts are all beasts that can pose a threat to humans.
However, now in Japan, beasts are no longer a threat.
Each of these children has different robots around them. Not to mention large beasts such as wolves and bears. Even inconspicuous threats such as poisonous snakes and poisonous insects will be dispelled by these robots with different frequency sound waves. These robots themselves are not the property of these families, but the social welfare uniformly allocated by each minor by the Japanese government.
After these children are over sixteen years old, the robots will be recycled and re-raised by the government to those younger children.
These nanny robots have higher authority and more skills. This is a policy that the Japanese government and the Yagyu Consortium have not been introduced in order to reverse the natural decline in Japan's population's birth rate.
In fact, every developed country will encounter the problem of slow population growth, but Japan is particularly serious.
In addition to the stress of young people in life and some young couples are unable to raise and educate their children, more importantly, young people often do not have the time and patience to accompany their children.
No one is born to like to deal with shit and pee, even if the shit and pee are pulled by their own children.
If it is not the sense of responsibility of being a parent, everyone will definitely not be happy to change their children's diapers three or five times and wipe their butts five or six times a day.
Everyone likes the cute kids, but they have to devote themselves to it, start cultivating and educating a child from the baby, and then take great pains to educate various education, guidance, and corrections at different stages of the child's growth until the child grows up mentally and physically healthy. That is a very arduous task.
For a couple, the financial burden is relatively easy to overcome (although it is not easy) for raising a child to grow up, and the various efforts invested are greater efforts.
According to statistics, during the process of accompanying children to do homework, various symptoms such as heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage and hypertension increased by 200%.
In fact, even if the Japanese government and the Yagyu Consortium fully support it, Sakura* School opened one after another in Japan, the birth rate of newborns in Japan is still, well, not very high.
Japan's population has indeed rebounded in recent years, but most of them are due to the significant advancement in medical technology, which has led to an increase in average life expectancy.
Until half a year ago, the Yagyu Consortium suddenly announced a high-profile cooperation with the government. For children under the age of 0 to 14, as long as they are willing to implant bio-smart chips, they can receive a high-level monitoring intelligent robot as a social welfare for free.
The artificial intelligence robots of the Yagyu Consortium have been launched on the market for many years.
In the low-end market, sweepers, automatic suitcases, and front-end service robots have long been sold at bargain prices.
However, in the high-end market, the prices of medical robots for the elderly, smart housekeepers, and infant monitoring robots have always remained high.
This advanced monitoring intelligent robot has never been less than 100 million yen in the market. Of course, you get what you pay for. This robot can free parents from the hard life of caring for their children.
It is not that this kind of robot can replace the love of parents, but that this kind of robot exists, and parents no longer need to worry about their children's health and nutrition issues.
(The robot comes with its own medical system and is connected to the data of the Sakura* clinic. It can provide various medical services and feed back the child's physical data to the Sakura* clinic's data center at any time)
As for children going out to play, parents don’t need to worry about their children’s safety when they have these robots to follow.
These surveillance robots are authorized by the Japanese government and have the highest authorization level than intelligent robots in maintaining children's safety.
In order to protect children's safety, they can use electric shock, anesthesia and other means to control the invaders, and in extreme cases, they even have the right to directly kill the invaders.
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Since last year, the world's first space elevator began to be built, the whole world has entered a fantasy state.
First, someone revealed that the reason why this space elevator was built so smoothly was because the Lord of Desire personally flew into the universe with a special cable and used himself as a traction anchor to stay in the universe for six months.
During this period, He used various assembly parts sent through cables to build the initial space station base with one foot. Until the base station space is enough to carry the staff for the next step of construction, the Lord of Desire returned to the ground with the cheers of believers.
Of course, since the geosynchronous orbit corresponds to the earth's equator, Citi found a small island on the earth's equator and built a new desire pasture.
This desire ranch no longer accommodates ordinary civilians, but is used as a ground base for aerospace exploration. It is either the corresponding scientific researchers, or the construction personnel and technical personnel from various countries, majors, and are ready to board space.
This also marks the first development of international scientific research cooperation.
Since then, various changes have been dazzling.
The top 500 companies that originally had a semi-monopoly advantage in various fields have encountered various challenges.
Patents are published one by one for free from Desire Ranch, and one industry after another has emerged for free sharing - including but not limited to shared transportation, shared canteens, shared transportation and shared express delivery, and shared housing.
Citi's various industries began to disappear from low to high level, based on industries as units.
Just like the situation that appeared in the market when intelligent robots were launched, as long as the strength of Desire Ranch reaches the point where the service is provided for free, the relevant industries will completely disappear from the market.
These unemployed people who are caused by the disappearance of the industry will naturally be absorbed by the desire ranch and become the force for the desire ranch to move forward.
The launch of biochip ID cards has pushed the real-name system to the extreme.
A person corresponds to an identity. Apart from the power of the state, there is no technology that can forge an identity - a real-time database will promptly discover duplicate ID numbers.
Citi has opened a special zone to specifically accommodate those who are unwilling to accept biochip ID card implantation. There are all kinds of birds in the forest. There are really many people who pursue absolute freedom. These people do something wrong if they say it. People just think that after being implanted with biochip, they may not be able to protect their privacy.
For these people, Desire Ranch takes placement measures, neither supporting nor opposing them. However, more and more free services rely on personal biochip ID cards to support them. That is to say, without a biochip ID card implanted on your shoulders, you will not be able to enjoy most free treatments.
It's okay for people with jobs, but for those who are unemployed, this is a fatal blow.
What's more, most of the people who refuse to implant biochips are opposed to the Desire Sect. Biochips were originally proposed by the Desire Sect, and no believers of the Lord of Desire will oppose this project.
As the Desire Sect and the Accompanied the Holy Bishop, the influence in Citigroup and the EU became increasingly greater, and these people who opposed the Desire Sect gradually became non-mainstream people in society, either isolated or forced to change their positions.
The chain effect caused by this is that Citi's entire financial system is gradually replaced by the contribution mechanism of Desire Ranch. The contribution only represents the individual's contribution to human civilization, and cannot be transferred or become a legacy.
Although many wealthy people fled Citi, they faced a sect of desire that gradually showed their fangs and formed an irreversible trend. These people, as well as some freedom fighters, fled abroad with wealthy people, and those who had no money entered the Citigroup resettlement zone.
(The resettlement zone is specially designated by Citi, a state close to Greater Canada, which is specifically for those who refuse to implant biochips. It has a relatively independent legal system, which follows the original Red Banner maritime law system. Of course, the law enforcement and administrative system are still under the control of the Desire Sect)
Now, walking on the streets of any city in Citi is like walking in a futuristic science fiction city. There are almost more automatic robots (not human-shaped, but various small cars with robots) on the streets than people.
When you are thirsty, the portable smart center (mobile phone evolution version) will send a signal to attract robots to send drinks that match the taste;
When you are hungry, there will naturally be robots that deform and unfold on the roadside open space and turn into a table and chair. Of course, if you are a few friends together, these robots can also be spliced together to form an environment where multiple people can eat. If masking is needed, there are even robots that can pull out the curtain and form a large tent.
Even if someone needs to go to the toilet, there will be special robots that will transform into toilets for everyone to solve the problem. Of course, this is just a temporary emergency measure. Generally speaking, everyone is willing to go to formal public toilets to solve the problem.
Traffic lights have been completely cancelled. The profession of drivers is only available on racing fields. In cities, humans are allowed to drive vehicles.
In fact, since the ultra-long-distance wireless power supply technology covering the entire earth was put into use, power energy has no longer been the shortcomings of various robots, but has become their advantage - unlimited battery life. As long as it is not broken, it can continue to work.
Speaking of this ultra-long-distance wireless power supply technology covering the earth, it is not a breakthrough technological progress.
It can even be said that this is an empirical evidence that capital hinders technological progress.
This technology was first proposed by legendary engineer Tesla nearly a hundred years ago.
It sounds like a fantasy thing, but the content is not complicated. This thing is just wireless transmission through the "high-power high-frequency transmission line resonance transformer".
Simply put, the principle is to use the earth as the inner conductor and the earth's ionosphere as the outer conductor. Through the transmitter, the unique radial electromagnetic wave oscillation mode is used to establish a low-frequency resonance of about 8 Hz between the earth and the ionosphere, and use the surface electromagnetic waves surrounding the earth to transmit energy.
Due to technical limitations, Tesla only theoretically verified the feasibility of this transmission method, but it was unable to put it into practical applications.
However, this technology actually matured twenty years ago.
Even in the world, more than one company has developed this technology, but everyone tacitly submerged this technology in the filing cabinet and did not let it appear. All researchers who attempt to publish related papers are blocked!
The reason is very simple. This kind of global power supply method can't make money.
The power generation party cannot collect money!
People only need one receiving device to use electricity for free. If the receiving power required by this receiving device is not large, it can even be made smaller than a watch, so it is impossible to check it.
Even if the two countries are in a state of hostility, the power sent by Country A and Country B can still be used for free. No country will do such a thing.
Transmission companies cannot make money, and the various power grid facilities that have been built with great effort can basically be recycled as waste.
So everyone knows it very well, just pretend that this technology does not exist.
Of course, by the way, everyone put this legendary engineer Tesla, who was so stupid and proposed such an idiotic plan, on long-term play. Until he died, this person was always a poor man.
When he died, everyone happily divided up the legacy of this person, such as AC power, multi-phase power distribution system, radio, wireless power transmission (point-to-point transmission, not the kind that covers the world), flying furnaces, world systems, hydropower stations, etc.
Anyway, everyone was very happy about eating. Only Tesla itself did not get any benefit from its achievements.
This is the treatment of most scientific researchers in reality - you are disobedient? No matter how great your contribution is, you will not have the share of your benefits. You are just a slave to work. Only obedient scientific researchers can have a bone to chew on. As for eating meat, you are completely overthinking.
Another lie that countries around the world tacitly abide by is that oil is the remains of ancient organisms, accumulated in lakes, seas, or on land, transformed from complex biological and chemical actions by high temperatures and pressures.
In fact, the academic community has long known that this theory is a deceptive.
As early as decades ago, some people suggested that even if all the creatures that have appeared on the earth have been used up, they have long been used up by everyone - life matter is a drop in the bucket among all the matter on the earth, and even if they are converted into oil, it is not enough for everyone to use.
However, biopetroleum theory can support the sale of oil at a high price, so all scholars who oppose biopetroleum will either be blocked by money or be blocked by guns.
For the tycoons in the oil industry chain, it is very pleasant to die a few scholars who hinder their money.
In other words, in the past forty years, the power brought by oil tycoons under the control of energy has caused uneasiness among other forces. Everyone has begun to work hard to develop new energy and counterattack the oil industry. Only then can these theories emerge and cause small waves.
Knowledge is never power. Only knowledge that can be transformed into power or has been transformed into power will be respected!
Academics are the same. Academics without power support are just toys and tools in the palm of capital.
This phenomenon prevailed until the Desire Ranch overturned the table.
The "Patent Barrier Invalidity Act" and the "Second Edition of the Calculation Method for Contribution of Civilization" were officially announced at Citi!
Chapter completed!