Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 251: National Fawning Thoughts
For many industries, knowing that there is such a thing is completely different from the actual production.
The theory of the atomic bomb is known to high school students, isn’t it just a chain reaction? But if you want to actually produce a nuclear bomb, the difficulty is not known how many orders of magnitude higher.
The core theory of silicon-based chips is "energy band theory", an approximate theory that can be learned by undergraduates. But how to use this theory to make real chips requires a lot of exploration and experimentation, and a lot of economic experimentation.
From the micron level, to the millimeter, and then to the nano level, countless investments, talents, and countless failures are required, but these failures have laid a solid foundation for future development.
It's fine now, I have directly obtained ready-made products, and it is a technological product of the second-level civilization of the universe!
The second-level civilization of the universe, even if the Gliese civilization develops on its own for tens of thousands of years, it may not be able to surpass it!
So, it is not easy to understand these technologies. Naturally, it is impossible for anyone to increase investment and challenge alien technologies. Even the talent pool in this area is scarce.
Without enough exploration, it will be difficult for the Gliese civilization to develop its own high-tech industrial system.
Furthermore, all industrial standards are designed by alien civilizations. For many standards, reverse engineering is too difficult. The Gliese people don’t know why they designed it like this, but they are just as they are. Copy it up.
Of course, from a practical point of view, there is no problem with alien technology. The science and technology in the database is not deceptive, from the most basic steam revolution, to the internal combustion engine, to the electrification age and the information age.
Since Gliese 581g does not have any oxygen, they cannot even completely imitate the technology products inside. Therefore, the main work of scientific researchers all day long is to find products suitable for their own civilization in the database. Naturally, there are very few innovations about their own civilization...
This kind of invisible suppression is the whole civilization, one's own suppression of oneself, but in the game, enjoying the rapid progress of technology, how can it escape?
Only by looking back and analyzing the long history of the entire history, will we discover this shortcoming.
Naturally, over time, from the ideological level, the Gliese people have an unreserved trust in alien technology.
Aristocratic aristocrats buy high-end goods directly produced by universal factories, and ordinary people buy goods in the database, and only beggars will buy goods researched by their own nation.
Scientists once put forward the idea of satellites, but in the end it turned into a laughingstock for a while!
Because there is no such technology in the Universal Factory, it turned out to be considered a fantasy, and 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 create an industry that belongs to your own civilization."
An oligarch composed of a group of warlords cannot have a detached vision and broad mind to use the "universal factory" to promote the entire era. As long as they keep their power and wealth, it is enough.
But what can be done?
It is impossible for anyone to overthrow this regime through violence...
The advanced and huge productivity of the Universal Factory has almost killed 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 evolving. When social resources accumulate to a certain level, basically everyone can get rid of the life of the Stone Age and enjoy the convenience of it, but it is more or less, poverty or wealth...
A set of industrial systems centered on universal factories was gradually born on this planet.
Different from the technological tree of normal civilization, this industrial system is quite deformed. High-end industry, mid-end, and low-end are clearly distinguished. The high-end is always the high-end, and the low-end is always the low-end. The national innovation industry only engages in low-end manufacturing and only serves the production of universal factories.
Zhang Yuan sighed softly when he heard this. He deeply knew that this ideology was not good for the development of the entire civilization.
Because the former Xia country also had such a strange history, the people at that time blindly believed that all the industries in their country were rubbish, and the moon in the outer world seemed to be more rounded. Once this strange concept is formed, it is really difficult to change.
Gliese civilization is even worse, their hidden rival, but a second-level cosmic civilization! Capital is profit-seeking, without any capital, willing to challenge the universal factory. Even the national level is no exception, because it is impossible to challenge success.
Even... this kind of fawning thought still affects them to this day, so that the Gliese people instinctively believe that all alien civilizations are very powerful, advanced, and moral.
"That's why this civilization can more easily reach a peace treaty with mankind, even if the current mankind is not strong at all. The truth is the light of the second interstellar civilization!" Zhang Yuan faintly understood.
Return the topic...
As high-end industries are always dominated by universal factories, most of the profits will inevitably be captured by oligarchs who own universal factories.
The tendency of intelligent life to chase benefits is innate. Under the influence of power politics, the gap between the rich and the poor, and money, the entire society is slowly leaning towards money worship and bureaucracy in order to curry favor with those rich and powerful.
Some people of insight once called for resistance to this trend of thought, but these appeals seem so weak in front of the entire era...
When talking about this, Zhang Yuan was silent for a while, and asked: "So... where is Goer City?"
"German City’s political structure is indeed different from other cities, but if the whole world is like this, it is naturally difficult to resist this trend of thought, but it is more or less a problem."
Zhang Yuan asked again: "In other words, do you think that all the evils are brought by the universal factory?"
"No."
Gan Yaduo shook his head: "Technology is sinless... the sin is the entire civilization itself. If there is no universal factory, we are still living in the primitive stone age, how can we have such a good life now."
"The whole society is still developing, and the technological competition between cities is fierce. Even if there are problems like this, in the final analysis, it is not the evil of the universal factory."
No, it's not right.
Zhang Yuan always feels something is wrong: "So, the second interstellar civilization, will this be expected?"
"Trading is a win-win way for both parties. We are not forced to each other. Everything is our own choice... Even if the other party anticipates it, so what? I can't blame the other party, right?"
Zhang Yuan frowned, not knowing how to reply.
How do you say...
Technology has advanced ~IndoMTL.com~People's lives have evolved from the Stone Age to the electrification age, transportation is more convenient, and new changes have taken place in food, clothing, housing and transportation.
It seems that the entire civilization has improved a lot.
But on the other hand, its development potential has unknowingly reduced a lot. It is like a child who pulls out seedlings to promote growth after being given auxin, and grows a lot, but adds osteoporosis, obesity and other difficult-to-curable problems. Until these problems are solved, it is hard to say that it is a normal civilization.
The so-called gains and losses. From the perspective of human perception alone, it is really difficult to describe whether the Gliese civilization has become "good" or "bad" for such a long period of history.
Measuring the "good" and "bad" of a civilization is an important part of the history of new civilizations. Various messy and complex functions try to quantify people's ideology, life happiness, technological strength, social organization ability, potential for future development, degree of corruption, etc., to get a specific value.
Zhang Yuan has no way to consider the Gliese civilization for the time being, because these historical processes are still too vague. If they are only described, they are completely inaccurate.