"Mr. Chen, it has nothing to do with material welfare."
“In the space age, our productivity has long since achieved universal welfare, universal prosperity, and equal access to housing.
Everyone can apply for one for free when they reach adulthood. When they start a family or have children, they can also apply for better improved housing.
Medical treatment has also been fully popularized. Although after receiving injections of life-span medicine, we no longer have any diseases except genetic and psychological diseases.
With the support of virtual technology and virtual learning, education is also based on balance, equality, and people-centeredness. "
"It can be said that the people under Yi Fei no longer have any pressure."
Facing Chen Yi's inquiry, He Yu shook his head helplessly.
"Since it's not a welfare issue, and it's not the pressure burden of previous concepts, there must be a reason for this."
Chen Yi tapped his fingers on the table, raised the document and asked calmly: "It can't be because of the injection of life-span medicine. The life span has exceeded three hundred years. Coupled with the advent of the neuron-modifying medicine, the real life span is expected to exceed a thousand years in the future.
These young people aged 20, 30, and 40 suddenly turned into 300-month-old or 400-month-old babies. They felt that the matter of having a baby was still too far away for them, and none of them had this aspect. idea? "
In the past, for a 300-month-old baby, this was just a kind of self-deprecation, a kind of self-complaint.
Now, with the promotion of Yifei's longevity medicine and the advent of neuron-modifying medicine, 300-month-old babies have become a reality.
Calculated based on three hundred years, the age of twenty or thirty is about the same as the age of seven or eight before.
If neuromodification drugs are included to increase the upper limit of neurons, the life span is expected to exceed a thousand years. Thirty years old is equivalent to two years old before. Calling him a baby is definitely the appropriate name.
However, there is no legal requirement that a thirty-year-old baby is not allowed to have a baby.
He even understood the importance of population. After entering the space age, after Yifei took over most areas, he also provided a series of welfare rewards and honorary rewards for having babies.
However, judging from He Yu's report and the investigation data of the documents, such benefits and honorary rewards have no actual effect at all.
Except for some areas that were relatively backward in the past, had conservative ideas, and were difficult to make comprehensive changes in a short period of time, such as the Federal Reserve South, Camel, Camel East and other areas, the birth rate in other areas is almost zero.
The total birth rate, which is only a few tenths per thousand, is almost entirely dependent on those from these backward areas.
But according to the Fed area, the situation in Yifei's home area.
Chen Yi could foresee that as the living conditions in the Federal Reserve South, Luotuo, Luotuo East and other areas keep up with Yifei's overall plan and conservative ideas gradually open up, the birth rate in these areas will definitely plummet.
"Director Lin has already done some research on this issue."
In response to Chen Yi's continued questioning, He Yu did not answer, but stepped aside and handed the stage to Lin Qian.
"Mr. Chen, this is the analysis report of our External Relations Department."
"With the development of the times and the advancement of science and technology, many social contradictions in the past will disappear, and many concepts and burdens will dissipate. But new problems will also appear in the new era."
Lin Qian handed the report in her hand to Chen Yi and reported calmly: "In response to the sudden drop in the birth rate, we conducted an investigation and analysis in the virtual second world.
With fully automated production, the explosion of productivity, and universal welfare coverage, issues and concerns such as housing, education, medical care, inability to give children a good future, and even betrothal gifts that previously hindered marriage and childbirth have disappeared.
Instead, another new concern and worry is spreading. "
"Concerns about the talent of future generations?"
Chen Yi probably guessed what Lin Qian was going to say.
"Yes."
"In the past, industrial development and production required a large number of workers and a large population. Coupled with the uneven wealth and uneven education, many adults of the right age for marriage and childbirth, out of their inability to give their children a good future, gave themselves I want a good education for my children, and I don’t want my children to become assembly line workers, screws in society, and become the bottom class of society in the future, so I chose to live in peace and remain unmarried and infertile.”
"Now, the above problems no longer exist."
"There is no need to worry about the education of children and future generations, and there is no need to be a worker in fully automated production. The old social classes will be completely refreshed, with a balance between rich and poor, and a balanced education."
"However, another social class is also forming, that is, a new class composed of researchers, scientists, and sociologists."
"For this class, balanced education is only a supplement. After all, everyone's education is the same, which means there is no gap in education. The test is more about innate talent."
"As for talent, this is an innate problem that makes people hopeless and beyond their control."
"When having a baby becomes a bet with a high probability of losing, it's natural for people to feel worried."
"Most people of marriageable childbearing age understand that their offspring have little hope of entering this class, and they don't want their offspring to be like themselves and have to look up to a higher class throughout their lives."
"Such concerns, coupled with the increase in lifespan brought about by life-span medicine, and the fact that everyone is young and there is no need to rush to have children, have become one of the main problems hindering fertility."
People do not suffer from scarcity but from inequality.
This is the most essential social experience summarized by mankind over thousands of years.
If there is no higher class, everyone is the same, so naturally there will be no problem. However, if there is a better class, there is a high probability that there is no hope of getting into it. This problem and anxiety will naturally arise.
After all, it is not the original intention to eat and die. If there is a better direction, people will instinctively pursue it.
But if there is something better and you cannot pursue it, lying down will be unavoidable.
"There is no solution to this problem."
Chen Yi rubbed his head.
He understood Lin Qian's concerns.
It's just that this question is unsolvable for the time being.
If Yifei and human civilization want to ensure stable and rapid development, scientific research is fundamental.
In order to cultivate more scientific research talents, it is inevitable to provide scientific researchers with better welfare conditions and social status.
Without better benefits and status, a lunatic will be miserable as a scientific research dog while others are enjoying the benefits of the times.
Unless, of course, the ideal person.
But idealists are, after all, a minority group.
From such a minority group, a very small number of talented scientific researchers are selected, and this number cannot meet the needs of scientific research.
Although it is possible to increase the number of idealists through education and even through ideological stamping technology.
But there are too many idealists, which is an unstable factor in itself. If you are not careful, human civilization and even Yi Fei will be blown to pieces.
After all, no decision or policy can satisfy everyone's ideas.
The mediocre people feel that their ideas are inconsistent and can manage and suppress them, but the idealists fight for their ideas, which is too fierce.
As for increasing the constraints of ideological stamps and limiting the scope of ideals, human thinking potential will also be obliterated, and the problem will return to the original point, unable to cultivate enough scientific research talents.
"You just said that concerns about talent and the scientific research class are just one of the main reasons."
"What's the other reason?"
Thinking of this, Chen Yi did not continue to read the report, but asked about other reasons for the collapse of the fertility rate.
"The improvement of the people's knowledge level and the awakening of self-consciousness have suppressed the instinct of reproduction."
Lin Qian briefly explained the remaining factors affecting the birth rate.
"All right."
Chen Yi shook his head helplessly: "This is another unsolvable problem."
Let’s describe this problem briefly.
That is when people began to focus on the pursuit of spiritual culture and values, thus suppressing the instinct of biological reproduction.
From a biological and physiological perspective.
Reproduction is the pursuit of biological genes, not the pursuit of biological consciousness.
Looking at the history of the development of human civilization, it is not difficult to find that every progress of civilization is to get rid of the constraints of genes step by step and improve self-awareness bit by bit.
The more developed a region is, the more people pay attention to spiritual and cultural resonance, rather than the simple complementarity of men and women.
At the same time, the fertility rate in these areas is also relatively lower.
Human beings exist due to the reproduction of genes.
But human development is betraying the pursuit of genes step by step.
Perhaps, ever since humans abandoned genetic evolutionary choices and embarked on the path of autonomous intelligent evolution, the problem of fertility has already laid the foundation for disaster.
only.
In the past, the level of human civilization was too low and the material conditions were not sufficient. This disaster has not yet become apparent.
But now, as civilization has entered the space age and materials are extremely abundant, this problem has completely emerged.
"Do you want to use artificial reproduction technology and enable socialized parenting to solve this birth rate problem?"
Chen Yi did not read the final analysis and suggestions of the report, and directly stated the purpose of He Yu and Lin Qian's visit.
"yes."
"This is the only way to comprehensively address fertility rates right now."
"At the same time, according to the analysis of the think tank, this is also a necessary choice for the development of civilization."
He Yu and Lin Qian nodded and acknowledged their intentions.
No matter what.
The current problem of human civilization's birth rate collapse needs to be solved in a short time.
The longer it is delayed, the greater the impact will be on the future of mankind.
According to the analysis of Lin Qian and Yi Fei's external relations department and think tank.
There are two main problems hindering the birth rate today, both of which cannot be fundamentally solved.
Since the problem cannot be solved and people don't want to have rebirth, then simply there is no need for rebirth.
If it cannot be solved from the aspects of social structure and spiritual thinking, then it can be solved simply from the technical level.
Whether it is artificial reproduction technology or socialized upbringing, Yifei now has sufficient technical foundation and productivity conditions.
However, the implementation of technologies and policies in this area requires consideration of ethical issues and concepts.
But ethics, in the face of the development of human civilization and the continuation of human species, seems so insignificant.
"Tell me what you think are the pros and cons of artificial reproduction and socialized upbringing."
Chen Yi tapped his fingers on the table. He did not directly say no or agree, but asked He Yu and Lin Qian to express their specific views on this choice.
He Yu and Lin Qian looked at each other.
Finally, Lin Qian stood up and answered: "In terms of benefits, the first one is naturally to completely solve the problem of human fertility."
"By enabling artificial reproduction, we no longer have to worry about the continuation of the population and future generations, and at the same time, we can achieve comprehensive planning and coordination for population development."
"The second benefit is that Yi Fei's neuron-modifying drug has achieved breakthroughs and will be promoted to the outside world soon after its internal popularization is completed."
"At this time, using artificial reproduction technology can more conveniently optimize and transform the next generation."
“A human individual who has not undergone neuron modification and has not been implanted with a biological quantum brain chip will not be able to understand the data model and complete documentation of Higgs field technology for decades or even a lifetime.
"Through this, we can foresee that in the future, as human civilization continues to progress, human individuals will also need to be continuously optimized and transformed to keep up with the needs of civilization development."
"By enabling artificial reproduction in this way, in addition to making it more convenient to complete transformation and optimization, it can also collect various data more comprehensively and improve the technology of human transformation and evolution."
"As for the disadvantages of enabling artificial reproduction, there are three results from the current analysis."
"One is the ethical impact, the other is safety considerations, and the last is the issue of fetal psychological growth and thinking talent."
"Ethics goes without saying."
"If it's safe, just like today's human mothers are pregnant, pregnant women need to pay attention to the use of various drugs, viral infections, radiation contamination, etc. A little carelessness may have an impact on the fetus, and even lead to premature death or malformation of the fetus. .”
"When artificial reproduction is enabled, the subject of pregnancy and reproduction changes from a human mother into a biological factory for reproduction."
"In addition to the strict attention required to the factory's health management, radiation, material pollution, etc., the factory's control system, equipment and instruments are all at risk of being controlled by external parties."
"On the issue of the psychological growth of fetuses, we retrieved files from several welfare institutions and collected more than a million data specimens. We then used the virtual second world to ensure that privacy was not leaked. We conducted several studies. Months of actual tracking and analysis.”
"The final analysis results show that children who grow up in welfare institutions are 18.9 times more likely to develop psychological problems than children who grow up in normal families."
"The proportion of lower-level talents in art and scientific research is 8.9 times higher than that of children from normal families, while the proportion of higher-level talents is also 4.2 times higher than that of children from normal families."
"However, based on further simulation predictions, we will improve the conditions of the orphanage, improve various conditions for socialized parenting, and then change the external environment's views and discrimination against socialized children through education."
“Problems in this area can be fundamentally solved.”
Lin Qian methodically explained the pros and cons of artificial reproduction and socialized raising.
After listening to Lin Qian's report, Chen Yi nodded, thought for a moment and said, "This matter is too important. I'll think about it first, and you can improve the plan first."
"It would be best to refer to the previous methods of establishing economic development zones and special economic zones in the past, conduct several pilot projects, and actually promote them for five or ten years. After it is determined that there is no risk, we can then gradually and comprehensively promote them."
"Yes." Lin Qian replied respectfully.
"Boss, the artificial intelligence in the base's detection command center suddenly fed back an urgent piece of information."
At this time, Xia Keke suddenly ran in from the outside with a report in his hand, and said anxiously: "The tachyon space-time detector we launched has detected abnormal space-time fluctuations. The speed exceeds the speed of light, and it is suspected of curvature navigation." Trajectory.”
(End of chapter)
