When Chen Xiao saw [Expand physical and chemical machinery: 1. Ordinary lithium battery technology (LV20), 2. Power system (LV3)], he couldn't help but feel nervous. This is the second to last line. Looking down, That's what's new.
He didn't know what the influence system would do. If it was a brand new subject, he would probably have to work hard. If it is consistent with the original discipline, but the span is too large, the scientists will be exhausted.
Fortunately, the system is quite kind and gives:
[Expand intelligent creatures: 1. Biochip (LV3)])
[Can produce biochips connected to the brain]
"Biochip?" Chen Xiao couldn't wait to read the introduction, and after reading it, he had to say it was awesome.
Biochips are actually somewhat related to carbon-based chips, and they are all studied based on the characteristics of carbon-based organisms.
The difference is that biochips are chips placed in the human brain, while carbon-based chips are placed in electronic products.
Biochips are equivalent to the upgraded technology of neuron computing groups (all composed of neuron cells), which can cooperate with the brain to perform more sophisticated and complex calculations, and can process more mysterious human emotions and thinking.
This chip has three benefits. The first is extremely fast computing speed.
Once humans use biochips, no matter what they think about, this chip can immediately exchange information with the brain, much better than current wearable devices, which still need to transmit thoughts to the wearable device before they start to respond. This kind of biochip is like a part of the brain, it's straightforward.
The specific application scenarios are not difficult to imagine. Assuming that the user is an aerospace worker, then he can perform quick calculations based on the physics and mathematical formulas he understands.
But this kind of chip only speeds up the speed of human calculation and thinking, but cannot enhance human understanding.
The better a person understands a certain formula, the faster he can get the correct answer.
On the contrary, if a person does not know the formula well, it will be useless no matter how fast he thinks about the interaction.
Therefore, while it can process complex data itself, it can also serve as a conductor for products to help process human thinking.
This is the second benefit: it can cancel mobile phones and wearable devices, install quantum communication devices directly on the head, and directly realize external information exchange.
As mentioned before, the biochip is already equivalent to a part of the brain, so it can directly image the brain and retina. It no longer requires wearable devices to project on the brain, nor does it require the screen projection function of a mobile phone.
With just a thought, people can browse the Internet, the virtual world, and even make direct phone calls and have video contact.
Everything is as if the world is in one thought, extremely convenient.
The last benefit is that the biochip can automatically access the brain's movement status, identify the blood flow signals passing through the biochip, and read various blood indicators.
This means that biochips are performing physical examinations on humans all the time. In addition to blood routine, they can also read liver, kidney, heart, gastrointestinal and other indicators, which lays the foundation for humans to identify cancer and other adverse diseases in advance. Base.
In addition to blood indicators, the brain also receives various signals from the body, including illness, pain, and lumbar muscle strain. After all, the brain is the most important part of the human body, and nothing about the body can be hidden from the brain.
Sometimes it is not necessary to use blood, but also through some body fluids and hormone levels to judge the body's condition.
In this way, it creates excellent conditions for future virtual community hospitals to directly provide users with virtual consultations.
The current virtual consultation only covers daily diseases. Only those masters of traditional Chinese medicine can determine the disease by taking the pulse. As for Western medicine, which relies heavily on examinations, it is really life-threatening.
No matter how awesome Changtian is, he can't completely reproduce the MRI in the virtual world.
Now with the biochip, these checks are omitted, and the data can be uploaded directly to the server. All that's left is for the doctor to conduct a virtual diagnosis based on the seriousness of the condition, and then go offline to get medicine, surgery, and hospitalization for observation.
If such technology can be realized, human life will undergo earth-shaking changes.
The first is convenience. Just imagine, people all over the world get sick. Some people are born in small places, so it is very difficult for them to go to big cities with good medical conditions to see a doctor.
The medical level and medical resources in small places are limited. If they find some incurable diseases, they will recommend going to big cities. But when you go to a strange place to see a doctor, you don’t have to count the expenses along the way and the accommodation expenses. The key is to waste time. You have to go for an examination, and you have to wait for the results of the examination. Should the patient go back or stay in a big city?
I read a piece of news before, saying that a couple went to the United States for medical treatment. They spent hundreds of thousands in three to five days, and had to wait for the results in a few weeks. However, the couple had no money and could not borrow. , and finally had no choice but to return to China.
If they can see a doctor in the virtual world, then the travel expenses can be saved for medicine expenses, and they can last longer. Birth is not original sin, but it does become the difference between life and death. If biochip technology becomes popular, such differences will shrink or even disappear, benefiting the general population.
The second benefit of biochips is that human life expectancy will be greatly increased.
Just imagine, with a biochip, it is like a team of doctors using all the testing equipment to test your body. If there is a small problem, it can be discovered immediately and adjusted in time for timely treatment.
Many diseases are actually not difficult to treat at the beginning. The problem is that by the time people discover them, they often run out of time. Some diseases will not have much impact on humans in the early and middle stages. Only in the late stages will the body be unable to bear it and start to feel uncomfortable. By that time, the pain may have spread throughout the body, so how can we treat it?
Don't always say that people should have physical examinations on time, that is simply unrealistic. Everyone knows who can do physical examinations on time. They either have money and leisure, or their work units are very good. But the vast majority of people do not have this condition. Many people estimate that they will only have a physical examination once in their lifetime if they are seriously ill.
Furthermore, routine physical examinations are difficult to detect some well-hidden diseases. It would be unimaginably expensive to screen out these malignant diseases, and it is estimated that only a very small number of extremely important people can enjoy them. If some diseases sneak up on the human body during the physical examination, it may be too late by the time of the next physical examination.
With biochips, early detection and treatment can be achieved, and we no longer have to pin our hopes on physical examinations.
The last benefit is to achieve the most reasonable allocation of resources and improve the level of treatment.
The treatment level of hospitals in many places is not high, but it cannot be revoked because it is an essential facility for people's lives. Once consultations can be conducted in the virtual world, people will choose doctors with strong abilities to treat patients, and the income of capable doctors will rise rapidly.
What if you can’t get an appointment with a good doctor? Then make an appointment with the next-level doctor, and so on.
In order to increase their income, these doctors will work hard to improve their own skills. Those doctors who do not improve themselves and try to live offline will gradually be unable to stay in their original units. Then those hospitals will reduce their scale, except for the minimum requirements to protect people's livelihood, and the extra doctors will be fired.
Then there is the tilt of funding and medical resources. Good doctors and hospitals will receive more investment, and the higher they are, the more popular they will be. In this way, people who are messing around with their professional titles will be eliminated, and the waste in some hospitals in reality will be eliminated.
In many hospitals, many drugs are still unused after they expire. This is not their fault. No one can estimate the dosage. Excluding those with ulterior motives, this is actually quite normal.
Once medical consultation in the virtual world can be realized, the production and purchase of drugs will be reasonable. After all, medicines are prescribed based on medical treatment. You only need to buy what you need, not what you buy and use. Doctors in many hospitals actually know the best medicine to prescribe, but the hospital itself does not, so they can only prescribe it. I don’t dare to ask people to go out to a drugstore to buy it, otherwise they will say that the doctor and hospital have invested in an outside drugstore, and there are no human beings on both sides.
Chen Xiao quickly figured out a lot of things. Things have to be done step by step. It's useless to think about it. Let's figure it out first.
After summarizing the relevant research and development instructions, Chen Xiao returned from South Africa and returned to the Nagasawa Life Sciences and Medical Laboratory to start experiments.
The scientific researchers have become so accustomed to the boss suddenly coming up with good stuff that they don't know what's going on with the boss, why he has so many good ideas, and where did these ideas and technologies come from?
As the leader in this field, Qu Ping was even more shocked. This old classmate was not so dazzling before. Even though he had some academic talent, he could not reach this level. Over the years, what he has come up with is wide-ranging and of a high level, as if he is an omniscient and omnipotent person.
Sometimes, knowledge is also a kind of sexy. Obviously, in Qu Ping's eyes, Chen Xiao is the sexiest and most exciting man in the world. It's a pity that there are too many excellent women around him.
Putting away these messy thoughts, Qu Ping put her energy into research and development.
In fact, the idea of developing biochips is not very complicated. After all, with the neuron computing group technology in front, the next step is to miniaturize this technology and arrange it more rationally to achieve maximum application efficiency.
However, since the initial biochip could not be put into production immediately, it is now just a relatively huge model, as big as a fist.
This is the original model. All ideas are tried here. Once they are feasible, they will be miniaturized.
It’s just that the idea of miniaturization is not easy to imagine. The initial direction is to plan the layout. The advantage of this is that it is neat and controllable, simple and clear. For initial technology, the problem of having and not having to be solved must first be solved.
As groups of neurons are continuously arranged, the entire model looks a bit complicated and sci-fi. This is based on the arrangement of general chips. The advantage of this is that it is relatively flat and takes up less space after being placed in the brain. It should occupy a relatively small area.
"We are now conducting an experiment on computing power. Please note that all units are entering the computing topic."
The experiment started soon, and the effect was okay, but the computing power was not very strong, which proved that there was no problem with the design idea and it could work.
"Increasing arrays of neuron computing groups."
So more neuron computing groups were arranged on the original model. When the computing power was reached, everyone found that the area was a bit large, and it was difficult to meet the application requirements by miniaturizing it according to current technology.
The team did not give up, increasing or decreasing the number of neuron calculation groups, and then changing the way the plane was arranged to perform the same calculations.
After doing this experiment several times, it was found that it was simply not possible and could not meet the processing requirements.
"It seems that the traditional arrangement is not working. We have to make the chip the size of a scalp to keep up with the processing requirements." Qu Ping reported the progress.
Chen Xiao didn't feel surprised. New technology couldn't be that fast. But there is no need to worry too much. Strictly speaking, this technology is an innovation of applied technology. The basic principles are all there, it just depends on how it is designed.
After several discussions, the team implemented additive processing.
That is to say, the neuron computing groups are stacked layer by layer like building a round tower. This model is more suitable for the human body. The round tube state is placed in the blood vessel, which is more fitting and safer. At least it is safer than the boxy flat chip, right?
This kind of chip has many requirements. It is like a pipe rolled up by barbed wire. Those wires are neuron computing groups, and gaps are left to allow blood to flow, minimizing physical discomfort.
But this is a big test for manufacturing capabilities. It requires smaller neuron computing groups and stronger computing power.
In line with the progress here, the manufacturing department also formed a technical team for public relations, and the technology was quickly improved.
The specific idea is to set up a screening channel, so that neurons that meet the standards can be stably produced, and those neurons that are too large will be excluded, and then the petri dishes that can stably culture compliant neurons will be left. Screening, so that the neurons produced in the future will develop in a smaller direction.
This has very strict requirements for the cultivation environment. Humidity, temperature, light, and nutrient ratio are all very particular. If you are not careful, you will cultivate messy things.
Once successful, all factors recorded in detail are reproduced perfectly until stable production is achieved.
This illustrates from the side that theoretical progress and manufacturing progress are complementary to each other. No matter who cannot keep up, both will stagnate.
"This answer should be enough, right?" Looking at the original model that was more than ten times smaller, everyone was full of hope. The original model was so small. This was because the need to magnify and observe the details was so great. If it is completely compressed, it is probably not as big as a fingernail.
"Start!" The new round of experiments began in anticipation.
(End of chapter)
