Zhang Yuan still felt a little sad in his heart. After hibernating this time, there was a high probability that he would never see his teacher again.
He couldn't help asking: "Teacher... don't you choose to hibernate? Maybe, you can go through hibernation and wake up after reaching the future home planet."
Academician Ding waved his hand: "No, according to the doctor's suggestion, my current The state of the body, maybe there is no way to wake up after falling asleep. Various life-extending technologies will not be very effective for people like me who are already seriously aging..." "Older
, Sometimes I also want to take a break, retire with a few old friends, and live a life that normal people should live." "
However, before that, there are a few things I want to talk to you about."
Zhang Yuan was shocked, Here comes the business.
Their entire school, the first thing they want to promote is the "social public support system". Without this social public support, all subsequent plans are just empty talk.
If nothing changes, and they continue to develop steadily as they are now, after a thousand years, they will still be that mediocre human civilization...
This is something that no one wants to see.
Seeing the serious faces of Zhang Yuan and Zhao Qingfeng, Academician Ding smiled lightly: "There is no need to be so pessimistic. First of all, take a look at this population report. Over the years, the number of people who have chosen to be life partners The number of people has increased by 422%, and only 38% of the population is still single. Even Zhang Yuan, you have found a life partner, congratulations." Zhang Yuan couldn't help wrinkling his nose, what does it mean that even I have
found a life partner up?
After making a small joke, Academician Ding continued: "In other words, we have about 150,000 couples!
" Living conditions are poor, under the policy of discouraging births..."
"Do you know what this extremely low birth rate means?"
Zhang Yuan was stunned. The low quality of life has led to a significant reduction in people's willingness to have children, which is inevitable.
The population in the spaceship is basically a highly educated population, not farmers in the mountains. If they cannot provide a good living environment for the next generation, they would rather not have children. This kind of cultural phenomenon has actually appeared in the earth age. Children are not toys, and the purpose of birth is not simply to provide for the elderly, but it can be said to be a responsibility and a 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
obtaining a lot of resources, we will be the first in the future The point to overcome is to solve the problem of survival and improve our living environment. The most important thing for people is to survive. If you don't even have enough food and material needs, you can't do other things at all, let alone ideals. Moral."
Zhang Yuan nodded, it was natural.
"However, there is also a sequence of development. Some technologies can significantly improve the quality of life and increase the fertility rate, some technologies can obtain spiritual enjoyment, get appointments, and some can improve medical services... I think the most important thing is to reproduce the life on the earth. Biotechnology has greatly increased the average life expectancy! Instead of other bells and whistles..."
Zhang Yuan opened his mouth: "Why?"
"Labour, prolonging life means increasing labor!
" The life extension effect of science and technology will be much better, that is...everyone can live to be two hundred or even three hundred years old." "Anyway,
these technologies are invented by people on earth, and we don't need to pay patent fees, and we don't need to raise Prices, making profits, should be regarded as a national welfare!" "
Besides, the public will definitely not have any objections. If you live 300 years longer, or have a higher quality of life, you can only live 150 years. Years old, choose one of the two, I believe, most people will choose longevity."
Zhang Yuan nodded.
Academician Ding whispered: "More importantly, in this way, the desire to 'have children for the elderly' can be reduced..." "The
natural growth rate of the population will continue to be greatly suppressed!"
"Think about it, the work pressure is very high. , life expectancy is lengthening again, society is booming, and there are no elders forcing these young people to have children. Everyone will naturally think of rebirth later, so that their children can enjoy a brighter tomorrow. According to the historical experience on the earth, a Centenarians are everywhere... Delaying for decades doesn't seem to be a big deal."
Zhang Yuan pondered for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "But, don't we need a large population... There are only 500,000 people now, far away. It's far from industrialized."
Academician Ding smiled, and this smile gradually turned into a sharp edge like steel.
He said word by word: "We need population, but we don't need natural-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 also limited. Once these equipment are fully activated, they will quickly age and depreciate. At most, they can only Persist for decades." "
...The high-quality population is basically concentrated in our generation. We are the elites selected from a population of 10 billion and are high-tech talents in various systems. The next few generations, In terms of intelligence or other basic abilities, it is impossible to compare with us..." "
So, what will happen in the future? Even if our group of people let go of birth, the birth rate will never exceed 2% a year! 30 years There is no way to double it, we are not farmers."
"Without enough population, there is no way to achieve industrialization!"
"When all of our generation is old and dead, when the failure rate of spaceships is getting higher and higher , if a complete industrial system has not been established, our descendants will become extinct on this alien planet!"
Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and tried hard to think about the possibility of this future happening.
Yes, it will happen! High probability will happen!
The alien planet is not the earth, the ecological environment is extremely harsh, there is no strong industry, the spaceship begins to age slowly, and various flaws emerge one after another. After the spaceship is scrapped, everyone is waiting to die!
"...In this situation where there is no other choice, we must increase the population rapidly! When the willingness to have children is very low, using artificial uterus technology to raise babies in large quantities is the only option!" The Earth Times starts from
Earth At the time, it brought its own human gene bank, including sperm and eggs provided by excellent gene creators.
"As a result, a large number of artificial babies appeared. They had no father or mother, grew up from artificial wombs, and were brought up by robots. Their ideology is different from that of us natural people...I call them new human beings. "
This process will take about 20 to 30 years. At that time, they will be raised by robots. Millions of new humans will greatly exceed the number of natural people. They have already entered society and exerted their influence."
"They are natural supporters of the social support system."