Chapter 158

Zhang Yuan's heart is still a little sad, this time after hibernation, probably rate, never see his teacher.

He couldn't help asking, "teacher Don't you choose hibernation? Maybe we 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 very well for people who are already seriously aging like me... "

"When I am old, sometimes I want to have a rest and live a normal life together with some old friends."

"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 system, all the plans behind are just empty talk.

If nothing changes and develops steadily as it is now, they will still be the mediocre human civilization after a thousand years

This is something that no one wants to see.

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

Zhang Yuan can't help wrinkling his nose. What do you mean that even I have found a life partner?

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

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

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

Zhang Yuan was stunned, and the quality of life was not high, which led to a significant reduction in people's desire to have children, which is inevitable.

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

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

"After arriving at the destination and acquiring a lot of resources, the first thing we need to overcome in the future is to solve the problem of survival and improve our living environment. The most important thing of human beings is to survive. If we don't have enough food and material needs, we can't do anything else, let alone ideal morality. "

Zhang Yuan nodded, which is natural.

"But there are also priorities. Some technologies can significantly improve the quality of life and fertility rate, some technologies can get spiritual enjoyment, get appointment, and some technologies can improve medical services In my opinion, the most important thing is to reproduce the biotechnology on earth and greatly increase the life expectancy! It's not any other fancy thing... "

Zhang Yuan opened his mouth: "why?"

"Labor force, extending life span means increasing labor force!"

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

"Anyway, these technologies are all invented by the earth people, and we don't need to pay the patent fee or raise the price to make profits, so it should be regarded as a welfare of the whole people!"

"Besides, there will be no objection from the people. If you live a long life of 300 years or a higher quality of life, but you can only live 150 years, I believe most people will choose to live a long life. "

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Academician Ding said in a low voice: "more importantly, this 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, work pressure is very high, life expectancy is lengthening, society is booming, and no elders force these young people to have children. We will naturally want to regenerate later and let our children enjoy a brighter tomorrow. According to the historical experience on earth, children born at the age of 100 can be found everywhere It doesn't seem like a big deal to delay for decades. "

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

Academician Ding smiles, and this smile gradually turns into a steel like edge.

"We need population, but we don't need natural born population," he said

"The natural born population is a huge obstacle to the public welfare system! Moreover, the birth rate of natural population is too slow Too slow, too slow. ""Time is not on our side. The equipment we carry on the spaceship is limited, and the population is also limited. Once these equipment are fully started, they will rapidly age and depreciate. They can only last for decades at most."

“…… The high-quality population is also basically concentrated in our generation. We are the elites selected from the 10 billion people and the high-tech talents in various systems. It is impossible for the next generations to compare with us in terms of intelligence or other basic abilities... "

"So what's going to happen in the future? Even if we let go of birth, the birth rate in a year will never exceed 2%! 30 years has not been able to double, we are not farmers

"Without enough population, there will be no way to realize industrialization!"

"When our generation is aging and dying, and the failure rate of spaceships is getting higher and higher, if a complete industrial system has not been established, our descendants will be extinct on this alien planet!"

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, trying to think about the possibility of this future.

Yes, it will! Probably it will happen!

The outer planet is not the earth, the ecological environment is extremely bad, there is no strong industry, the spacecraft began to slowly aging, all kinds of mistakes emerge in endlessly, after the spacecraft scrapped, everyone is waiting to die!

“…… In this situation of no choice, we have to increase the population rapidly! Under the condition of very low natural fertility desire, the use of artificial uterus technology to cultivate babies in large quantities has become the only choice! "

When the earth age set out from the earth, it had its own human gene bank, including sperm and eggs provided by excellent geneticists.

"As a result, a large number of artificial babies have emerged. They have no father or mother. They have grown up in artificial wombs and have been raised by robots since childhood. In terms of ideology, they are different from those of natural people like us I call them new humans. "

"This process is about 20 to 30 years. By then, they'll be raised by robots. Millions of new human beings, whose number greatly exceeds that of natural people, have already stepped into society and exerted their influence. "

"They are the natural supporters of the public welfare system."