Deep Space Fleet

For many industries, knowing it exists is completely different from actually producing it.

High school students know the theory of the atomic bomb, isn't it just a chain reaction? But to actually produce nuclear bombs, the difficulty is many orders of magnitude higher.

The core theory of silicon-based chips is "energy band theory", an approximate theory that can be learned as an undergraduate. But how to use this theory to manufacture real chips requires a lot of exploration and experimentation, and requires a lot of economical experimentation.

From millimeter, micron, to nanometer, countless investment and talents are required, and countless failures will be experienced, but these failures have also laid a solid foundation for future development.

It's great now, I have directly obtained a ready-made product, and it is a technological product of the second-level civilization of the universe!

The second-level civilization of the universe, even if the Gliese civilization develops on its own for tens of thousands of years, it may not necessarily be able to surpass it!

Therefore, it is not easy to understand these technologies, and naturally it is impossible for someone to increase investment and challenge alien technologies, and even the talent pool in this area is very small.

Without enough exploration, it will be difficult for the Gliese civilization to develop its own high-tech industrial system.

In addition, all industrial standards are designed by alien civilizations. For many standards, reverse engineering is too difficult. The Gliese people have no idea why they designed them this way, and just copied them as they are.

Of course, from a practical point of view, there is no problem with this alien technology. The technologies in the database are not deceptive, from the most basic steam revolution, to the internal combustion engine, to the electrification age and the information age.

Since Gliese 581g doesn't have any oxygen, they can't even fully imitate the technological products inside. Therefore, the main job of scientific researchers is to find products suitable for their own civilization in the database. Naturally, there are very few innovations about their own civilization...

This kind of invisible suppression is the suppression of the entire civilization and itself, but in the middle of the game, enjoying the rapid advancement of technology, how can it be possible to escape?

This shortcoming can only be discovered by retrospective analysis from the long river of history.

Naturally, over time, from the ideological level, the Gliese people have an unreserved trust in alien technology.

Powerful aristocrats buy high-end products directly produced by universal factories, ordinary people buy products in databases, and only beggars buy products researched by their own nation.

Some scientists once put forward the idea of ​​satellites, but in the end it became a laughing stock!

Because there is no such technology in the universal factory, the result is considered a fantasy, and it is fine to be ridiculed by peers, and no one invests... The scientist was so ashamed that he almost hanged himself.

"Under the influence of this ideology, it is even more difficult to create an industry that belongs to one's own civilization."

It is impossible for an oligarch composed of a group of warlords to have a detached vision and a broad mind to use the "universal factory" to promote the entire era. It is enough for them to keep their power and wealth.

But so what?

It is simply impossible for someone to overthrow this kind of regime through violence...

The advanced and huge productivity of the universal factory has almost killed all the possibilities of change!

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With the passage of time, the output of the universal factory is still accumulating, and the times are still advancing. When social resources accumulate to a certain level, basically everyone can get rid of the life of the Stone Age and enjoy the convenience. It's just a matter of more or less, poverty or wealth...

An industrial system centered on a universal factory was gradually born on this planet.

Different from the technology tree of normal civilization, this industrial system is quite deformed. There are clear distinctions between high-end industries, middle-end industries, and low-end industries. High-end industries are always high-end industries, and low-end industries are always low-end industries. National innovative industries are only engaged in low-end manufacturing industries, serving the production of universal factories.

Hearing this, Zhang Yuan sighed softly. He deeply knew that this kind of ideology was detrimental to the development of the entire civilization.

Because the former Xia Kingdom also had such a strange history. At that time, the citizens blindly believed that the industry in their own country was all rubbish, and the moon in the outside world seemed to be a little rounder. This kind of strange concept, once formed, is really difficult to change.

The Gliese civilization is even worse. Their hidden competitor is a second-level cosmic civilization! Capital is profit-seeking, without any capital, willing to challenge the universal factory. Even the national level is no exception, because it is impossible to challenge successfully.

Even... this kind of xenophobic thinking still affects them to this day, so that the Gliese people instinctively believe that all alien civilizations are very powerful, advanced, and full of morality.

"That's why this civilization can reach a peace treaty with humans more easily, even if the current humans are not strong at all. It really takes the light of the second interstellar civilization!" Zhang Yuan faintly understood.

Let's get back on topic...

In the case that the high-end industry is always dominated by the universal factory, most of the profits will inevitably be captured by the oligarchs who own the universal factory.

The tendency of intelligent beings to pursue interests is innate. Under power politics, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the corruption of money, the entire society has begun to slowly lean towards money worship and bureaucracy in order to curry favor with the powerful.

Some people of insight once called for resistance to this trend of thought, but these calls seemed so weak in the face of the entire era...

When we talked here, Zhang Yuan was silent for a while, and asked: "So... what about Goer City?"

"The political structure of Goer City is indeed different from other cities, but if it is the same in the whole world, it will naturally be difficult to resist this trend of thought, it's just more or less a problem."

Zhang Yuan asked again: "In other words, do you think that all evils are brought about by Universal Factory?"

"No."

Gan Yaduo shook his head: "There is no evil in technology...the evil is the entire civilization itself. If there is no universal factory, we are still living in the primitive stone age. How can we have such a good life now."

"The whole society is still developing, and the technological competition between cities is fierce. Even if there are problems of one kind or another, in the final analysis, it is not the evil of the universal factory."

No, not right either.

Zhang Yuan always felt that something was wrong: "Then, would the second interstellar civilization expect this?"

"The transaction is a win-win way for both parties. We are not forced to each other. Everything is our own choice... Even if the other party predicts it, so what? It can't be blamed on the other party, right?"

Zhang Yuan frowned, not knowing how to answer.

how to say……

With the advancement of science and technology, people's life has developed from the Stone Age to the electrification age, the transportation is more convenient, and the basic necessities of life have undergone brand-new changes.

It seems that the entire civilization seems to have improved a lot.

But on the other hand, its development potential has been unknowingly reduced a lot. It's like a child who is injected with auxin backfires and grows a lot taller, but adds osteoporosis, obesity and other difficult-to-cure problems. Before these problems are solved, it is difficult to call it a normal civilization.

The so-called gains and losses, if only from the perspective of human sensibility, it is indeed difficult to describe whether the history of Gliese civilization has become "good" or "bad" for such a long period of time.

Measuring the "goodness" and "badness" of a civilization is an important content of the history of new civilizations. All kinds of messy and complicated functions try to quantify the people's ideology, life happiness, technological strength, social organization ability, future development potential, corruption degree, etc., to obtain a specific value.

Zhang Yuan has no way to think about the Gliese civilization for the time being, because these historical processes are still too vague. If it is just a description, it is completely inaccurate.