The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 218 The last blow

After listening to Donald's introduction, Jiang Yu said: "We should call modern times the genetic era, because life in Guanghan City is enjoying the benefits of genetic research.

"When the solar system is full of spaceships powered by nuclear engines and can also use new nuclear energy systems to generate electricity, we will call it the age of nuclear energy!"

Donald made a note on the computer: "We will use the definition given by the Wallfacer."

Jiang Yu smiled: "This is just a suggestion, and the specific technical standards have to be determined by you."

Donald nodded: "The last thing I want to report is the final blow to the 'Poisoned Apple Project'."

The Academy of Sciences in Guanghan City has been paying attention to brain insertion technology.

Because this technology can improve people's memory and learning ability, and this technology PDC has been improved to a certain extent, brain-inserted devices no longer have the function of networking.

This prevents someone from attacking a person's brain by using a brain-inserting device.

It's just that after such an improvement, if you want to update your brain plug, you need to do a craniotomy.

Therefore, general brain plugs are lifelong, and once installed, they will no longer be updated.

People who have not used the technology will have a huge disadvantage in both memory and learning compared to people with brain implants.

Because Jiang Yu issued a strict order not to allow people who have used the three-body star brain implant technology to become residents of Guanghan City, so the Academy of Sciences prepared to develop its own brain implant technology.

However, this plan was quickly stopped by Burton, because both Bai Xiangdong and Gu Zhize had made great breakthroughs, and the life span of human beings has been extended a lot, so they have more time to spend on learning.

People are so looking forward to brain insertion technology, largely because of the time for learning, which takes up too much of their own life.

In modern society, generally speaking, it takes about 20 years of study to have the ability to survive.

If you want to go further, you must continue to study while working. If you want to engage in research in a certain field, studying before the age of 30 can only be regarded as a start.

Compared with humans who are more than 70 years old after the average life expectancy, the cost of this study is too great!
So when the life expectancy is extended, many people will calm down and spend more time studying.

And although Burton didn't know why Jiang Yu had such strict orders, his previous lessons told him that it was better to obey Jiang Yu's orders.

In the 67th year of the crisis, when the great plague broke out, no one dared to use the brain implant technology of the Trisolarans.

It's just that more than 20 billion people on earth have already used this technology, and taking it out will seriously affect their life and work.

At that time, the PDC was already in a mess, unable to investigate the flaws of this technology by itself, so it entrusted this project to the Academy of Sciences in Guanghan City, and then the PDC decided on a plan to deal with the possible consequences of this technology.

After several years of research, experts from the Academy of Sciences finally understood Jiang Yu's good intentions. It turns out that people who use brain implant technology have limited brain capacity.

Here Donald explained in more detail that after humans walked upright, the brain volume increased rapidly.

Donald uses bamboo poles to describe this change, animals that walk on four limbs, such as cats, dogs, cows, sheep, etc., and reptiles, such as crocodiles, etc.

Their posture is like a horizontal bamboo pole. No matter which end of the bamboo pole is, adding a little thing will affect the balance.

Homo sapiens standing up is like a vertical bamboo pole. Even if a bucket of water is placed on the top of the bamboo pole, it will not affect the balance of the bamboo pole.

This is the premise of a substantial increase in human brain capacity, which was subsequently shrunk accordingly.

This is because in the Stone Age, everyone had to master many skills, such as what to eat, how to orientate in the wild, how to make tools, and so on.

At that time, everyone had to be an "all-rounder", otherwise it would be difficult to survive.

So at that time, the human brain capacity was the largest. Later, the social division of labor gradually became more refined, and the human brain capacity decreased rapidly.

Without him, it's all because the brain consumes too much energy. Since there are so many unused places, let's lighten the burden.

In modern times, as scientific knowledge becomes more and more profound, and as life in space requires more and more skills, the human brain seems to be insufficient.

At this time, in order to save trouble, someone used the brain insertion technology of the Trisolarans.

Research by the Academy of Sciences shows that people who have lived in Moon City for more than 20 years have an increase in brain volume of 0.8% to 1.2%.

And the newborns in Moon City, especially Guanghan City, without any genetic modification, had about 3% more brain volume than ten-year-old children on Earth when they were about ten years old.

It is estimated that after adulthood, the brain volume of adults on Earth will increase by about 3.8%.

After research, it was found that this is an emergency evolution.

First of all, human beings need a larger brain capacity to learn those complicated technologies and knowledge.

Then there is the low-gravity environment in Moon City, which relieves the burden on human necks, cervical spine, etc., just like a person who has just stood upright, and it doesn't matter if the head is a little "overhead".

However, this kind of emergency evolution will stop when the brain volume increases by about 4.2%. After a slow accumulation of more than ten generations, the genes related to the increase in brain volume will be stable.

Some people say that humans in space may look like aliens in movies with big heads.

What is surprising is that the brain capacity of people who have used the brain implant technology has not increased in space.

In particular, there was a case in which a newborn in Lunar City, USA, was suffering from dyslexia and had brain implantation technology at the age of seven. As a result, there was no sign of any increase in brain volume after the age of ten.

After further demonstrations, the Academy of Sciences can basically conclude that it is precisely because of the existence of brain-plugging devices that the brain has no "motivation" to increase brain capacity.

The trick of the Trisolarans is extremely sinister. They should have confirmed that this technology has no future in space, so they gave it to humans.

It is hard to imagine that without Jiang Yu's reminder, this technology might have been popularized long ago.

Residents of Guanghan City can hardly resist the convenience brought by this technology. When everyone uses this technology, they will not know the change of brain capacity in space.

Then some evolution of human beings in space may not happen. After all, the space environment is very different from the earth environment. In order to adapt to such an environment, the human body must undergo certain changes.

In fact, there are many similar emergency evolutions. For example, the newborns in Guanghan City have very thin legs, because the gravity is reduced, and the pressure on the legs to support the human body is much reduced.

Therefore, every resident of Guanghan City is very grateful to Jiang Yu for not letting them be disturbed by the plague, nor affecting the emergency evolution of their brains.

Residents of Guanghan City and other planetary cities of the Wallfacer Federation began to support Jiang Yu from the bottom of their hearts after these incidents.

People who have used the technology of the three-body star also regret not listening to Jiang Yu's advice.

In particular, most of the businessmen in Guanghan City who bought genetic technology quotas died in the plague. Those who were lucky enough to be rescued by Bai Xiangdong also lost their status as residents of Guanghan City. They almost regretted it. blue.

Hearing Donald's sincere expression of gratitude, Jiang Yu was a little dazed. He just had an intuition before that he felt that the technology of the Trisolarans must have evil intentions.

He never imagined that there would be such a "merit" now!
After Donald's report was over, he bowed again before leaving.

Then Burton came in, he was not as reserved as Donald, he sat down opposite Jiang Yu and said:

"Now Guanghan City, Mars City, Ceres City, and Vesta City are all our forces to build and support the Wallfacer project.

"Together, we formed the Federation of Wallfacers."

Burton Exchange reported: "Now Guanghan City has more than 120 million permanent residents, and Mars City has about 60 residents.

"The two space cities of Valley God and Kitchen God each have about [-] residents.

"You may not imagine that we still have more than 300 million Federal City residents on Earth!"

(End of this chapter)