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Volume 4: Walking in the Solar System Chapter 1: The Fourth Scientific and Technological Revolution

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    Human society has experienced three scientific and technological revolutions. The third scientific and technological revolution is another major leap in the field of science and technology in the history of human civilization after the steam technology revolution and the electric power technology revolution.

    This is an information control technology revolution that is mainly marked by the invention and application of nuclear energy, electronic computers, space technology and bioengineering, and involves many fields such as information technology, new energy technology, new material technology, biotechnology, space technology and ocean technology.  revolution.

    While scholars debate endlessly over the concepts and dates of scientific revolution, technological revolution and industrial revolution, ordinary people¡¯s lifestyles and ways of thinking have been affected by the technological revolution.

    It has to be said that the third scientific and technological revolution has greatly promoted changes in the socio-economic, political, and cultural fields of mankind, making human living standards develop to a higher level, and the global village has taken shape.

    Theoretical research in the field of natural science is completely different from the field of social science. It is not as colorful as the latter, but its impact on human beings is no less.  Some important scientific theories, after being realized by engineering, will have as much impact on human society as ideological disputes.

    The utilization of nuclear energy is an unprecedented achievement in human history. In the early part of the last century, the world of theoretical physics was so bright that it seemed to have suddenly reached an explosive period, with top players appearing one after another.  Regardless of whether the theory of relativity is completely correct, Einstein is enough to rank among the top celebrities based solely on the famous mass-energy equation e=mc^2.

    The emergence of nuclear weapons has made people worry about whether mankind is one step closer to extinction. The largest hydrogen bomb test in history, the 50-million-ton-yield Big Ivan, has a suffocating power in the video that is still fresh in people's minds.  Its cousin, with a yield of up to 1 billion tons, probably cannot find a test site, and even the Big Ivan itself has reduced its charge by half.  Even so, one Big Ivan is enough to completely destroy a city the size of New York or Moscow.

    "In the face of absolute strength, all means are vain. This sentence is correct. In the face of the power of giant nuclear bombs, all slogans make people feel ridiculous."  Even deadly viruses cannot compare with nuclear bombs.  Soft kill and hard kill feel completely different.

    The invention of electronic computers and the application of large-scale integrated circuits, as well as the later expanded application of pure optical components, led to the emergence of a new species, intelligent computers and intelligent robots.  This is inevitable in historical development. The technical level in the field of nanoprocessing has never stagnated and is still far from the limit of this technology.

    IC chips, silicon photonic chips, and pure optical chips mean at least progress in three fields: chip design, laser technology, and nanoprocessing.  Li Zhuang is not really greedy, but helpless. All the boards of the bucket need to be long enough.  From the perspective of outsiders, United Technologies likes to get involved in all high-profit industries, but they never thought that these few important technologies are just by-products of certain research.

    Citigroup used to like to invest heavily in high-tech fields, but now it feels particularly unhappy when it encounters similar companies that are not inferior to them.

    In the biological field, the most impressive thing is genetic engineering, which, along with nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, is one of the three leading research frontiers in the 21st century.  A planet with a solid foundation and a planet with comprehensive technology is capable of producing what ordinary people think of as extraterrestrial items. Of course, those requirements that transcend the law of conservation of mass and energy cannot be met.

    The biological maid challenges human nerves. Although humans are advanced animals with fairly good self-control abilities, they are still animals after all. Countless vicious events in life are caused by competition for mates and indulging individual desires. Instinct is a powerful force.  .

    Powerful modified humans and biological robots rarely appear in the public eye, but many smart people can still deduce the technical level of combat biological robots from the gradual improvement of biological servants over the years.

    As for transforming people, it¡¯s hard to say that the technical difficulty of this is beyond ordinary people¡¯s imagination. The human body has a relatively complete internal circulation system after thousands of years of natural evolution.  Biological robots are products, and their lifespan does not matter. However, the modified person needs to be responsible for the object being modified and cannot change it at will.  There won't be so many unexpected accidents when transforming people. In a laboratory where everything is based on strict logical reasoning and tight protection, the progress will not be that fast, but it will be stable.  The ultra-precision experimental simulation system brings a lot of convenience to research and reduces the pain of experimental subjects.

    The emergence of genetic drugs has given hope of curing malignant tumors and some other terminal diseases.  Specific drugs for AIDS have appeared a few years ago, but they are expensive and cannot cure the disease.  The Great Leap Forward in bioengineering and the secrets of human genes are constantly being revealed, and stubborn diseases are being overcome one after another.

    ¡°Gene targeting¡± technology has been mastered by experts in the early years to repair gene chains and eliminate disease-causing genes.  The combination of nanotechnology, genetic technology, and medical technology has made nanobiochips, nanomedicines, nanomedical components, nanodiagnostic technology, and nanomedical materials practical.

    Three human beings?Significant progress has been made in the treatment of severe cases, malignant tumors, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Complete cure requires the cooperation of the living environment and medical research institutions to further find out the specific causes of the disease.

    In malignant tumors, "cancer-killing missiles" that can automatically identify and emit heat to kill cancer cells have been made. The technical means of nano-blocking cancer cell nutrition has been very mature after nearly two decades of development.

    Drugs for the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer and breast cancer have been put into use in batches, and other cancers are being conquered one after another.  However, the actual pathogenesis of cancer is still hotly debated in academic circles.  It is impossible to cure cancer without completely solving the pathogenic mechanism.

    In terms of cardiovascular diseases, automatic cholesterol cleaning machines, blood vessel fat cleaning machines and special drugs for cerebral thrombosis have all been put into use.  These devices are also widely used in weight loss, and the high-efficiency balancing liquid used together allows the patient's body to maintain a relatively good condition.

    In terms of diabetes, the nano-intelligent glucose detection system and "nano nose" have been put into use, which greatly reduces the pain of diabetics and ensures "early detection and early treatment."  The treatment of diabetes relies on gene targeting technology. However, it takes enough time to analyze the gene chain, but it will be a matter of time before the goal is achieved.

    AIDS, which everyone fears, is no longer a chronic disease as the human genetic code is gradually cracked, but the cost of treatment is still not cheap. On the one hand, the cost of drugs and technology is relatively high, and on the other hand, several major institutions deliberately raise service charges.  Create a monopoly situation.  As one of the few United Technologies Corporation Medical Research Institutes in the world that can treat AIDS, at Li Zhuang's request, except for some charity activities, it did not act as a good person to avoid incurring the public indignation of its peers and the soaring of its own charity expenditures.

    Whether this virus is transmitted through sex, blood, or mother-to-child transmission, every infected person has his own story and his own helplessness. However, as a research institution, before finding a reliable and cheap treatment, we can only boast about it.  It will bankrupt your finances.  The story of "fighting rice for kindness, rising rice for hatred" is not uncommon everywhere. When people face death, if they know that they don't have to die, the kind of crazy power will make people tremble.

    Some people don¡¯t care about life and death, some people are obsessed with life and death, and some people are helpless about life and death. No matter whether they are indifferent or unwilling, they can¡¯t really change anything.  The rapid changes in science and technology will greatly change human beings' concepts of life, death, illness, and old age. This will not take long. Just twenty or thirty years will be enough for us to see everything.

    New energy technologies, including controllable nuclear fusion power plants, solar and wind power generation, hydrogen fuel cell power generation, etc., are all environmentally friendly technologies that will not cause pollution to the earth. Compared with nuclear fission power plants and coal-fired oil power plants, the technical level has been significantly improved.  a generation.

    Construction of Citigroup¡¯s first controllable nuclear fusion test power plant began after the experimental reactor was announced to be operating normally. It took three years to ignite successfully. Although it met the design requirements, the power was not high enough.  Citigroup's Department of Energy's strategy is very prudent to avoid accidents and become the laughing stock of other countries. The high-power power plant they designed is expected to take four years to complete.

    "Other forces will not wait for Citi to take all the credit. It is not Citi that is the first to realize the connection of high-power nuclear fusion power stations to the grid for power generation, but silent Australia.  United Technologies completed the construction of two 1,000,000-kilowatt units near Canberra in early December last year. After ignition, they were run and tested for a long time and the operation was stable.  The federal government used the power provided by nuclear fusion power plants to drive various high-tech propaganda devices deployed in Canberra to celebrate this special Christmas with the public. This is nearly six years after Citigroup announced the success of controllable nuclear fusion technology.

    United Technologies¡¯ position in the fields of solar cell technology and fuel cell technology is already solid, but less so in the field of wind power.  With the production of complete controllable nuclear fusion technology and equipment, this already famous company has further strengthened its position in energy, not to mention the oil and gas fields discovered in the Gibson Desert.

    In terms of space technology, NASA¡¯s nuclear fission rocket was very successful. This was the first time humans used high-specific-impact nuclear rocket technology.  If it weren't for funding constraints and pollution considerations, NASA would have restarted the construction of its lunar base and Mars plans long ago.  Nuclear fission rockets cannot be launched on the earth, and the various components can only be sent into space one by one by moving ants.  Even if NASA has this confidence, those around the space center will not agree.  When Russia's highly toxic propulsion rockets of dimethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide were launched from the Bainur Space Center, Kazakhstan protested every time. They were still powered by conventional fuel.

    In terms of conventional rockets, the three-stage high-thrust rocket nwww.piaotia.comasa, esa, and asa launched by asa the year before last are relatively advanced in technology, and asa is catching up from behind.  The plasma propulsion power of ASA has been increased hundreds of times compared to the first generation.

    In ten years, asa has become a giant group with 150,000 employees, providing all related services.Space services.

    Australia has quietly become a nuclear weapons state, with intercontinental missiles, multi-warhead technology, a global positioning system composed of 30 kd series navigation satellites known as "koalas", strategic land-based lasers, high-power ship-based lasers, and various types of  Highly intelligent missile systems have appeared in the catalog of the Australian military, and the number of troops has increased sixfold.  With the influx of high-quality foreign people and the large-scale promotion of eugenics and education programs, Australia's population has increased to 60 million.

    Some scholars started with the emergence of artificial intelligence and ended with the connection of nuclear fusion power plants to the grid for power generation, naming the changes that have occurred in the past ten years as the fourth scientific and technological revolution.

    Li Zhuang doesn¡¯t know whether this classification is correct, but in the first half of the 21st century, human social structure and understanding of nature have improved significantly, and technological progress has been particularly obvious.

    This so-called fourth scientific and technological revolution is basically the sublimation and improvement of the third scientific and technological revolution. What can be called revolutionary changes are nuclear fusion power plants and biological servants, so Li Zhuang feels that this statement is a bit reluctant, but given that  Achievements in the fields of medicine and nanotechnology and artificial intelligence seem to make this statement tenable again.

    With the grid-connected power generation of controllable nuclear fusion power plants and the leap in solar technology, humans no longer have to worry about energy issues, and they no longer have to smell the disgusting smell of soot and gasoline in the air.

    Biological robots and alloy robots, represented by biological servants, are a new species in human society. The existence of this new species has made the existence of some people embarrassing.

    Since biological servants began to enter society in large numbers two years ago, the volcano seems to be gestating energy. Is it an explosion or a peaceful release?

    In the so-called fourth technological revolution, the most impressive thing is not these products, but a golden storm launched by an unknown force, which successfully changed the pattern of the earth and caused heavy losses to the global economy.

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