Compared with ancient civilizations, scientific and technological civilizations have much stronger ability to self-destruct. Nuclear bombs, chemical weapons, and self-destruction are only a matter of minutes.

But compared with these open war weapons, the fertility trap is also a very obscure crisis. The technological civilization with a fertility rate exceeding 2% is extremely rare and almost none!

The Yunhai and Hope have experienced several technological worlds and obtained historical information from these worlds.

Like the White Mist Continent, the Curse Continent, and the Abyss Continent, as long as it is a scientific and technological civilization, the more it develops, the lower the fertility rate will be.

In some civilizations, the fertility rate is only 1%!

That is, each generation has a population of only half of the previous generation. Over time, even if there is no need for too much disaster, human beings will become extinct.

Even if it is not extinct, it will decline. Without human society, no matter how advanced technology is, it will be meaningless.

There are many social reasons and many answers to the problem of fertility. From the perspective of economic and human nature, it can be explained accordingly.

But in a certain meeting, a security expert proposed: "Can it be some extremely powerful demon... tampered with human thinking?"

This statement is terrifying and creepy!

What if human nature itself is not like this?

Perhaps human nature is better than imagined? Is it because humans are like this after their thinking is forcibly tampered with?

This question cannot be verified...

But the most worrying thing is that, as a scientific and technological civilization, Yunhai must face the troubles caused by these problems in the future.

Or, I have been troubled by these problems!

"Of course, scientific and technological civilization also has ways to improve fertility, that is, artificial uterine technology and social robot maintenance." Lu Yiming said: "This is how the Akara civilization next door has done to greatly increase fertility and cross the threshold of self-extinction."

“We can learn what they do.”

"It's just that artificial uterus technology will be impossible for us to develop it for a while." Jin Lili shook her head. This is a scientific forbidden zone for human beings. It is impossible to study it seriously due to ethics.

Even humans deeply understand the great convenience of this technology.

But inventing new technologies requires experiments and a large amount of data.

Just imagine, how big an ethical challenge is to take human embryos for experiments?

At present, the laboratory strictly follows the 14-day rule. Scientists must not observe human embryos in the laboratory for more than two weeks, otherwise there will be a risk of challenging ethics. Scientists who violate this rule will be criticized by severe public opinion.

Ethics is the cornerstone of social morality and is not allowed to be destroyed.

Therefore, without enough experiments, the current Yunhai Society has no possibility of inventing artificial uterus technology.

"Artificial uterus is impossible, and socialized care is even more impossible at present... a more sound child care system can be tried."

Speaking of this, even Lu Yiming himself felt that the obstacles were long.

Technology self-destruction is not only a fertility trap, but also the end of history under the capitalist system.

That is, the historical process has entered a dead end. A scholar once proposed in the last century that "history will end with freedom and democracy", which sounds like a joke, but not without any possibility.

Technology self-destruction also includes natural laziness in extreme wealth. Most humans lose their spiritual pursuits and lose their motivation to move forward. Pursuing comfort is human nature, but being too comfortable will hinder development.

Like the Akara civilization in the next world, it fell into a state of extreme wealth, so that the whole nation hid in the virtual world.

Until the entire world was occupied by evil gods, no one was willing to come out, wasting a lot of technology given by Xia Wenming.

The Yunhai still struggles hard so far because external threats still exist and have not obtained a complete set of advanced technology in the interstellar era.

Hei Shasha can complete a lot of work, but cannot complete everything. Many things must be done by manpower.

If productivity explosion in the future and extreme wealth is extremely affluent, how many people are willing to fight?

This question is difficult to answer.

Lu Yiming didn't know the answer to the relevant questions, and finally he sighed: "It's also going to be degenerate... the quality of the whole nation is not as high as this level."

"So, explore... we must explore the ideal world next door as soon as possible, explore the remains of civilization, and understand the future path with spare energy."

"Otherwise... there will be big pits everywhere in the future."

...

Citizens come and go on the pedestrian streets of the capital of the Sea of ​​Clouds.

Men and women discuss new things and enjoy a life of slowly becoming rich.

"The electric vehicle factory has started construction, and the first batch of electric vehicles will be sold soon! There are about 500 cars!"

“The price must be very high.”

"The price of lithium-ion batteries is around 10,000 yuan, and the configuration is high and low. However, the previous crystal energy batteries are no longer available in large quantities."

"It's a pity that the crystal energy battery is gone."

A wonderful weekend.

What the people talk about is nothing more than the issue of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Houses are allocated, and cars have become everyone's main goal.

It's also quite interesting to drive a car around the island!

The number of commodities is slowly increasing, and a new wave of entrepreneurship has been born in this era of great development. The electric vehicle industry chain alone is enough to support tens of thousands of people.

The production capacity of universal factories did not directly intervene in the private sector, but there were still many scattered things flowing into the private sector. For example, some scrapped experimental equipment can be used simply by processing it; and many retired military products can still be used.

The loose pieces that flow out of this point alone are enough to allow 300,000 people to live a better life.

According to the general forecast of economic experts, in the past year, the original GDP growth was about 24%, but now it has soared to 31%, an increase of 8 percentage points!

Most of the reasons are the accidental leak of huge production capacity of universal factories.

This is also a helpless thing, I don’t know whether it is good or bad.

Most people are satisfied with their current living conditions. The pedestrians on the streets and alleys are smiling. Even if they meet strangers, they are quite friendly. They give each other a smile, without a trash person full of hostility.

The recent crime rate has been lower than an incredible number, and there is only one reason for this change...

Beautiful hope for the future!

As long as the future becomes more and more beautiful, the satisfaction of the people will not decline at all.

"Let's go! Go to your grandpa's house, don't think about drinking milk tea. It's not good to drink too much of this thing." Lu Yiming hugged Lu Lingling's child and stuffed her to his father-in-law.

After chatting with my relatives for a while, I turned around and left.

In the center of the capital of the Sea of ​​Clouds, a super building up to 800 meters stands, which is the current administrative command center.

Under the construction of black shasha and a large number of workers, this central building was completed in one year.

It towers into the clouds, and at the top of the tower, there are special devices like lightning rods. This is an important part of the defense plan: city-level psychic shields!

These special psychic devices can disperse like umbrellas at critical moments.

In this tower, the total number of soldiers resident is 2,000. The super psychic shield it produces can temporarily protect the city center from long-range strikes, and even nuclear strikes can weaken by more than 95%!

But don't underestimate this for dozens of seconds or a minute.

Perhaps, it was such a short time that was enough to make the army launch a counterattack.

It is also enough to allow civilians to hide in underground shelters in a chaotic environment and save tens of thousands of lives.

"Hey, I don't know how long this vigorous vitality can last..." Lu Yiming said suddenly.

"Maybe it's one or two years, maybe three or four years? I don't think it's too long, it can't be more than five years."

Lu Yiming and Jin Lili entered the Central Building after iris scan and fingerprint scan.

If a person has no future intentions, he will have immediate worries.

These difficulties sound far away, as if they are illusory, but if they are real, they must be considered as early as possible.

Jin Lili said: "You don't have to worry too much. We have not yet developed to that stage. Just like the earth civilization in the past, although it has many shortcomings, it is still improving, right?"

"Progress? Humph, if there weren't any challengers, history would have almost ended." Lu Yiming snorted coldly, obviously not very satisfied.

This tall tower is not only an administrative or military center, but also an excellent reconnaissance site. It can observe the surrounding 100 kilometers at an altitude of 800 meters.

The two of them came to the big conference room to sit. There was nothing particularly important today, just a routine annual development summary report.

Since this year is the first year since the establishment of the Cloud Sea Capital, many journalists are already waiting for it.

From time to time, the stable development this year has brought great achievements, and everyone is in a very good mood.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a government spokesperson officially came to the stage to speak.

"Dear comrades, good evening everyone. In the past year, it was the first year for us to build the capital of the Cloud Sea and the eighth year for this government to perform its duties in accordance with the law. Since we have owned a large area of ​​land and absorbed the underground heritage of the planetary fortress, new breakthroughs have emerged in the economy."

"The economy remains within a reasonable range, with the GDP created by humans growing by as high as 31.2%, with a total volume of 60.9 billion yuan. The economic growth rate matches physical quantity indicators such as electricity consumption and freight. Consumer prices rose by 1.9%. Government revenue and expenditure are basically balanced. The survey unemployment rate is stable at a low level of around 2.5%, achieving basic employment for citizens."
Chapter completed!