Chapter 163

Zhang Yuan is still a little sad in his heart. After this hibernation, he will probably never see his teacher again.

He couldn't help asking, "teacher... Don't you choose hibernation? Maybe you can hibernate and wake up after reaching the future home star. "

Academician Ding waved his hand: "no, according to the doctor's advice, I may not be able to wake up once I sleep. All kinds of life prolonging technologies will not work well for people like me who are seriously aging... "

"When I'm old, I sometimes want to have a rest, provide for the elderly with some old friends, and live a normal life."

"But before that, there are a few things I want to talk to you about."

Zhang Yuan's spirit was shocked and business came.

The first thing they want to promote in the whole school is the "social public support system". Without this social public support, all the plans behind are just in vain.

If nothing changes, they will continue to develop steadily as they are now. After a thousand years, they will still be the mediocre human civilization

This is what no one wants to see.

Seeing the serious face of Zhang Yuan and Zhao Qingfeng, academician Ding smiled faintly: "don't be so pessimistic. First of all, take a look at this population report. Over the years, the number of people who choose to become life partners has increased by 422%, and only 38% of the population are still single. Even Zhang Yuan, you have found a life partner. Congratulations. "

Zhang Yuan could not help but wrinkle his nose. What is it that even I have found a life partner?

After a little joke, academician Ding continued, "that is to say, we have about 150000 couples!"

"Over the past two thousand years, only more than 1000 babies have been born, that is, the new population. Even under the policy of poor living conditions and not encouraging childbirth..."

"Do you know what this extremely low fertility means?"

Zhang Yuan was stunned, and the quality of life was not high, which led to a significant reduction in people's willingness to give birth, which was inevitable.

The population inside the spaceship is basically a highly educated population, not farmers in the mountains. If they can't give the next generation a good living environment and give birth and education, they would rather not give birth. In fact, this cultural phenomenon has appeared in the era of the earth. Children are not toys. The purpose of being born is not simply to provide for the elderly, but also a responsibility and a burden.

Academician Ding continued: "according to the current statistical data, the environment is bad and the material conditions are poor, so the fertility rate is not high, which is easy to understand."

"After reaching the destination and obtaining a lot of resources, the first thing we need to overcome in the future is to solve the survival problem and improve our living environment. The first essence of man is survival. If he can't even eat enough and meet his material needs, he can't do other things at all, let alone ideal morality. "

Zhang Yuan nodded. It was natural.

"But there is also a sequence of development. Some technologies can significantly improve the quality of life and fertility, some technologies can obtain spiritual enjoyment and pleasure, and some can improve medical services... I think the most important thing is to reproduce the biotechnology on the earth and greatly improve the life expectancy! Not other fancy things... "

Zhang Yuan opened his mouth: "why?"

"Labor force, prolonging life is to increase labor force!"

"For you young people, the effect of various technologies on prolonging life will be much better, that is... Everyone can live 200 years or even more."

"Anyway, these technologies are invented by people on earth. We don't need to pay patent fees, raise prices and make profits. It should be regarded as a national welfare!"

"Moreover, the people will certainly have no objection. If you live a long life of 300 years or a higher quality of life, but you can only live 150 years, choose either. I believe most people will choose to live a long life. "

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Academician Ding whispered: "more importantly, in this way, we can reduce the willingness to have children and provide for the aged..."

"The natural growth rate of population will continue to be greatly suppressed!"

"You think, there is a lot of work pressure, life expectancy is lengthening, society is booming, and no elders force these young people to have children. Everyone will naturally think of regenerating later and let their children enjoy a brighter tomorrow. According to the historical experience of the earth, there are many people who have children at the age of 100... It seems no big deal to delay for decades. "

Zhang Yuan pondered for a moment and wondered, "but don't we need a large population... Now there are only 500000 people, which is far from industrialization."

Academician Ding smiled, which gradually turned into an iron edge.

He said word by word: "we need a population, but we don't need a naturally born population!"

"Naturally born population is definitely a huge obstacle to the social public support system! Moreover, the birth rate of natural population is too slow... Too slow, too slow. "

"Time is not on our side. The equipment carried on our spacecraft is limited and the population is limited. Once these equipment are fully started, they will age and depreciate rapidly. They can only last for decades at most."

"... the high-quality population is also basically concentrated in our generation. We are the elite selected from the 10 billion population and high-tech talents in various systems. The next few generations cannot compare with us in terms of intelligence or other basic abilities... "

"So what will happen in the future? Even if we let go of birth, the birth rate will never exceed 2% a year! We can't double it in 30 years. We are not farmers. "

"Without sufficient population, there is no way to realize industrialization!"

"When our generation all ages and dies, and when the failure rate of spacecraft is getting higher and higher, if a complete industrial system has not been established, our future generations will become extinct on this alien planet!"

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and tried to think about the possibility of this future.

Yes, it will happen! Probably will happen!

The outer planet is not the earth. The ecological environment is extremely bad and there is no strong industry. The spacecraft begins to age slowly again. All kinds of mistakes emerge one after another. When the spacecraft is scrapped, everyone is waiting to die!

"... in this situation of no choice, we must increase the population rapidly! When the willingness of natural reproduction is very low, using artificial uterus technology to cultivate babies in large quantities has become the only choice! "

When Earth time set out from earth, it brought its own human gene bank, including sperm and eggs provided by excellent geneticists.

"Therefore, a large number of artificial babies have emerged. They have no father or mother. They grow up in an artificial womb and are raised by robots. Their ideology is different from that of natural people like us... I call them new humans."

"This process takes about 20 to 30 years. At that time, they will be raised by robots. Millions of new human beings, the number of which greatly exceeds that of natural persons, have stepped into society and exerted their influence. "

"They are natural supporters of the social public support system."