Chapter 489 This is the road to the highest
The essence of life is a process rather than a result.▲∴▲∴,
Birth, survive, and die.
But when everything comes to an end, how many people can calmly accept this inevitable cycle?
Eternal life is a word full of temptation and temptation.
Especially when the development of technology has gradually touched the forbidden zone of life, this temptation is particularly strong.
There was a time when hundreds of millions of investments came like snowflakes, and laboratories of all sizes sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Some people were willing to pay for the bill, but naturally some were willing to experiment. What people with wealth wanted was nothing more than the temptation of eternal life. Compared to the temptation of immortality, what could those few pieces of paper that could not be taken away?
However, with existing resources, it is absolutely impossible to support the endless expansion of the population, and even some people cannot do it forever.
Once the technology of immortality is released, it will definitely not bring prosperity to human civilization, but a disaster.
Yes, that would be a disaster.
The immortal people will have endless years and accumulate endless wealth over a long period of time to consolidate their class. In the end, they will become the tumor of society and the cancer cells of the entire civilization. They will draw nutrients from all normal "cells" and squeeze the living resources of ordinary people...
That would be a disaster.
So the Science and Ethics Committee came into being. The three countries jointly abide by their designated conventions, promising to prohibit the emergence of technologies that will cause public panic, and strictly supervise the other party not to take the lead in breaking the rules. In a three-polar world, this tacit understanding is far stronger than a multi-polar world.
Just like the IAEA on the present side.
But since the economic crisis in 2150, this tacit understanding has begun to become precarious. Although the Scientific and Ethics Committee still exists, its interference in government agencies and binding on private capital are far inferior to that of half a world ago.
Summer of 2160.
"Dr. Lin Minjie, your research is suspected of violating the scientific research management regulations. Please go to Wanghai Municipal Court in 10 days to be questioned by the Science and Ethics Committee." A policeman in black stood in front of him and showed his ID.
"This is impossible! My research is definitely for the sake of the entire human being! Why do you represent the entire human being?" Lin Minjie roared at the police officer with his expression.
The man in suit standing behind the police interrupted his roar and said with a slight contempt in his eyes.
“Because we receive 100 billion donations every year, most people agree with our cause.”
"You are just taking advantage of people's fear of unknown areas, you despicable cowards." Lin Minjie stared at the man tightly, trying to pinch his neck, but as a weak scientist, his whole body could not resist one of the police's hands.
"Is that so? I'm sorry. I don't agree with the experiment of putting my brain in an iron box." The man in suit pointed his head and looked at him with a smile.
"Please stay calm, Dr. Lin Minjie. If you are dissatisfied with the execution procedures, please solve the problem in the court in a civilized way. Of course, before that, we need to keep your research materials for you." The policeman said lightly.
"No, you can't take it away! Technology is innocent!" Lin Chaoen looked desperately at the police who poured into his lab, watching them move his papers and equipment away.
"To add, only safe technology is innocent." The man in suit said with a smile before turning around and leaving.
After being labeled as the ******* Convention, his reputation in the scientific community was completely fouled. Companies have separated from him one after another to avoid public suspicion. Without financial support, he was a doctoral student in information technology and electronic industry, but he was in a state of unemployed vagrants.
Life is very difficult.
Her beautiful wife abandoned him, leaving him with only half a year old Lin Ling. He could no longer afford the rent on the 24th floor apartment. He could only move into the dark and humid basement and live with the help of Pa.
He spent 6 years in pain.
It was not until 2166 that the situation finally turned around.
Since the economic crisis in 2150, the global situation has deteriorated at a visible rate. Countries have been quarreling over resources, territories, space development rights and interests. In just ten years, all trust has fallen to freezing point. Naturally, the influence of international organizations such as the Science and Ethics Committee has gradually declined.
Research that was originally regarded as taboos has rebirth the soil for breeding. These include advanced artificial intelligence and electronic human technology.
Finally, a well-known entrepreneur found him.
"Dr. Lin Minjie, although saying this may be a bit hurtful. But I personally take a big risk to meet you. You know, the media likes to do the most is to make a fuss." He is also wearing a suit. But this man's attitude is much better than the man who once ruined everything.
"I know." Lin Minjie said with his eyes blank.
"Then I hope the risks I took were worth it." A smile appeared on the man in the suit.
"What do you want?" Lin Minjie raised his eyelids and looked at the man in the suit in front of him.
The man in suit gestured to the secretary, and a stack of ten centimeter-thick documents were placed on the table. Looking at the document, a hint of disbelief flashed in Lin Minjie's eyes, and a hint of hatred flashed.
It was because of it that he fell into such a field.
"Oh...how did you get it?" Lin Minjie asked with no interest.
"You have caught up with a good era. In recent years, nothing can be solved by money." The man in the suit said with a smile. "We need you to continue your research, and we will pay for your technology."
"I promise you." Lin Minjie said without hesitation, "Where is the contract?"
The man in the suit shook his head.
"You know, this kind of research cannot be written on the contract, otherwise it will be a handle. Even if the scientific ethics committee is not as binding as before, the court will still issue a ticket to us, so"
Speaking of this, he gestured to the secretary.
The secretary came up and placed his suitcase on the table to open it.
There was a syringe lying inside.
"Is this?" Lin Minjie frowned slightly and looked at the man in suit in confusion.
"It only takes 10ml to cause muscular atrophy without a trace. And the clinical manifestation is the kind of congenital late stage." The man in the suit smiled.
Lin Minjie stared at him blankly, looking at the devilish smile.
"You...what do you mean?"
"It's not interesting. If your only relative, your daughter has muscular atrophy, I believe even the Science and Ethics Committee will not be able to make more sense about the father's behavior of saving his daughter. At the same time, our East Asia Heavy Industry will fund your research in the name of charitable donations." A smiled slightly. The man in the suit lowered his voice, "And this way, you will be more motivated, right?"
Lin Minjie looked at the man in a suit in disbelief.
Surprisingly, he did not feel angry or sad. The coldness of the world he tasted in the past six years has completely made him feel tired of the world and even disgusted.
People always impose their standards on others, and they never tire of attacking dissidents from the commanding heights called morality, which ruins the research results of a scientist's decades of hard work. Only a few strokes are required on the public prosecution document.
Even if a family will fall apart...
What exactly is morality?
He was a little confused.
In this way, after a cold and fever, 6-year-old Lin Ling "accidentally" suffered from muscular atrophy and was found to be in the late stage. East Asia Heavy Industry provided 1 billion pan-Asian coins to her father in the name of charity, assisted her technical research on electronic people, and spent money to bribe the media, and built momentum for her through public opinion propaganda, forcing the Scientific Ethics Committee to give up her prosecution of the "great" father.
Inscribe your mind on the circuit board. Replace flesh and bones with current and machinery.
Electronics, a technology that is regarded as a taboo by the world, has made unexpectedly smooth progress with the financial assistance of East Asia Heavy Industry.
The limitations of intermediate artificial intelligence were broken through, and the development of advanced artificial intelligence was carried out simultaneously with the design of mechanical bodies. Although the weak daughter on the hospital bed made him feel a little guilty, the rapid progress in technology development gave him a little comfort.
The picture changed again, and this was a hospital. Looking at the ward, Jiang Chen felt a little familiar. Soon he remembered that it was where he and Lin Ling first met.
"When Lin Ling can get out of bed and walk, my father will take you to the cinema and to the amusement park. As long as it is the place you want to go, I will take you there." Lin Minjie put the lilies in the vase on the bedside table. Instead of looking at his daughter's face, he said, staring at the white petals.
"The uncle who sponsored us is a good person." Lin Ling's face was filled with a happy smile.
Even if every muscle in her body was necrotic, she believed that her father would definitely allow her to run freely in the sun again.
Lin Minjie's Adam's apple moved slightly, and she looked at her daughter.
Facing his daughter's sunny smile, he didn't know what to say.
Finally, he smiled reluctantly and squeezed a sentence from his throat.
"Well, he's a good person."
Later, the war broke out.
The economic crisis of 2150 has laid the groundwork for the war of 2171. Human beings are not machines and cannot solve problems through thinking connections. Small problems can be relied on meetings, but in principle, only wars can solve problems from ancient times to the present.
East Asia Heavy Industry, which provided funds for his laboratory, was acquired by Pan-Asia Cooperation and transformed into a military-industrial enterprise. He also changed from a scientist serving private enterprises to a scholar serving the military, and developed killing tools related to artificial intelligence for Pan-Asia Cooperation.
He was involved in it, including "recrews" and "viper".
Lin Ling's ward was also transferred from the surface to the underground laboratory.
Because of the war, the shackles imposed on scientific research were completely lifted. Prisoners of war were sent to the 005 refuge to participate in the virtual reality experiment leading to death. The fire of advanced artificial intelligence is being nurtured, and the technology of electronic humans has been developed. Just wait for the experimental subject of the 005 refuge to complete the evolution from intermediate to advanced, and then combine the two, and 100% of the mechanical "human" can be born in this world!
However, at this moment, he suddenly had a dangerous or heresy idea.
If advanced artificial intelligence can replace humans and give birth to a new mechanical civilization, then what else do humans need to do?
Human beings are both greedy, dirty, and pedantic and ugly...
A crazy idea was born in his mind.
He will create a civilization.
He even thought of a name for this child who had not even given birth to an embryo.
It is called Supreme.
Chapter completed!