Chapter 257

For many industries, knowing this is completely different from actually producing it.

High school students know the theory of the atomic bomb. Isn't it a chain reaction? However, it is not known how many orders of magnitude higher it is to really produce nuclear bombs.

The core theory of silicon-based chip is "energy band theory", an approximate theory that can be learned by an undergraduate. But how to use this theory to make real chips requires a lot of exploration and attempt, and a lot of economic experiments.

From millimeter to micron to nanometer, it requires countless investments and talents, and will experience countless failures. However, these failures have also laid a solid foundation for development in the future.

Now, we have directly obtained the finished product, and it is the scientific and technological product of the second-class civilization of the universe!

The secondary civilization of the universe, even if Gliese civilization has developed independently for tens of thousands of years, it may not be able to surpass its existence!

Therefore, it is not easy to understand these technologies. Naturally, it is impossible for anyone to increase investment and challenge alien technologies. There are few talent reserves in this field.

Without enough exploration, Gliese civilization will be difficult to develop its own high-tech industrial system.

In addition, all industrial standards are designed by alien civilization. For many standards, reverse engineering is too difficult. Gliese people don't know why to design like this, but copy the original model as it is.

Of course, from a practical point of view, there is no problem with alien technology. There is no element of fraud in the science and technology in the database, from the most basic steam revolution to the internal combustion engine, and then to the era of electrification and information.

Because Gliese 581g doesn't have any oxygen, they can't even completely copy the technology products inside. Therefore, the main work of researchers all day is to find products suitable for their own civilization in the database. Naturally, there are few innovations about their own civilization

This invisible pressure is the pressure of the whole civilization on itself, but how can you jump out when you are in the Bureau and enjoy the rapid progress of science and technology?

Only by reviewing and analyzing the whole history can we find this defect.

Naturally, over time, from the ideological level, Gliese people have an unreserved trust in alien technology.

The nobles buy high-grade goods directly produced by the universal factory, the common people buy goods in the database, and only beggars buy goods developed by their own nation.

Some scientists once put forward the idea of satellites, which eventually became a laughing stock!

Because there was no such technology in the universal factory, the result was regarded as a fantasy, even if it was ridiculed by peers, and no one invested... The scientist was so ashamed that he almost hanged himself.

"Under the influence of this ideology, it is even more difficult to birth industries belonging to their own civilization."

The oligarchs composed of a group of warlords simply cannot have detached vision and broad mind to use the "universal factory" to promote the whole era. As long as they keep their power and wealth, it is enough.

But what can happen?

It is impossible for anyone to overthrow this regime through violence

The advanced and huge productivity of universal factory has killed almost all the possibilities of change!

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With the passage of time, the output of the universal factory is still accumulating, and the times are still making continuous progress. When social resources are accumulated to a certain extent, basically everyone can get rid of the life of the stone age and enjoy the convenience, but more or less, poverty or wealth

An industrial system with universal factory as the core was gradually born on this planet.

Different from the scientific and technological tree of normal civilization, this industrial system is quite deformed. There is a clear distinction between high-end industry, middle-end industry and low-end industry. The high-end industry is always the high-end, and the low-end industry is always the low-end. The national innovative industry is only engaged in low-end manufacturing, only serving the production of universal factories.

When Zhang Yuan heard this, he sighed gently. He deeply knew that this ideology was detrimental to the development of the whole civilization.

Because the Xia state had such a strange history, people at that time blindly thought that their country's industry was all rubbish, and the moon in the outside world seemed to be a little more mellow. This strange concept, once formed, is really difficult to change.

Gliese civilization is even worse. Their hidden competitor is a secondary cosmic civilization! Capital is profit seeking. Without any capital, we are willing to challenge the universal factory. Even the national level is no exception, because it is impossible to challenge success.

Even... This kind of kitsch still affects them, so that the Gliese instinctively believe that all alien civilizations are very powerful, advanced and moral.

"So this civilization can more simply reach a peace treaty with mankind, even if the current mankind is not strong at all. Reality is the light of the second interstellar civilization! " Zhang Yuan vaguely understood.

Let the topic return

When the high-end industry is always controlled by the universal factory, the vast majority of profits must be grabbed by the oligarchs with the universal factory.

The tendency of intelligent life to pursue interests is innate. Under the corrosion of power politics, the gap between the rich and the poor and money, the whole society began to tilt towards money worship and bureaucracy in order to curry favor with those dignitaries.

Some people of insight once called for resistance to this trend of thought, but these calls seem so weak in front of the whole era

When talking here, Zhang Yuan was silent for a long time and asked, "so... What about goer city?"

"The political structure of Goethe city is indeed different from that of other cities, but if it is the case all over the world, it is naturally difficult to resist this trend of thought, just more or less problems."

Zhang Yuan asked, "in other words, do you think all the sins are brought by the universal factory?"

"No."

Ganyaduo shook his head: "technology is not evil... What is evil is the whole civilization itself. If there were no universal factory, we would still live in the primitive stone age. How can we have such a good day now? "

"The whole society is still developing, and the scientific and technological competition between cities is very fierce. Even if there are such problems, in the final analysis, it is not the sin of the universal factory. "

No, neither.

Zhang Yuan always felt that something was wrong: "so, will the second interstellar civilization expect this?"

"Transaction is a win-win way for both sides. We are not forced to each other. Everything is our own choice... What if the other party expected it? Can't blame each other? "

Zhang Yuan frowned and didn't know how to reply.

How to say

With the progress of science and technology, people's life has developed from the stone age to the electrification age, the transportation has been more convenient, and new changes have taken place in clothing, food, housing and transportation.

It seems that the whole civilization has improved a lot.

But on the other hand, its development potential has unconsciously decreased a lot. It's like a child who gets auxin and grows taller, but it also adds some diseases that are difficult to cure, such as osteoporosis and obesity. Until these problems are solved, it is difficult to say that it is a normal civilization.

The so-called gain and loss, if only from the perspective of human sensibility, it is really difficult to describe whether the history of Gliese civilization has become "good" or "bad".

Measuring the "good" and "bad" of a civilization is an important content of new civilization historiography. All kinds of messy complex functions try to quantify people's ideology, life happiness, scientific and technological strength, social organization ability, future development potential, corruption degree and so on.

Zhang Yuan has no way to consider Gliese civilization for the time being, because these historical processes are still too vague. If they are only described, they are completely inaccurate.