Chapter 740 Civilization Dilemma

Xiamen, this new city has been upgraded and transformed.

The city has been covered by a dome system, and in the northwest district of the city, there is a very lonely passage that extends northwest for about 5.3 kilometers.

At the end of the passage, there is a specially designed small dome system. In this area, it is very quiet, or more suitable, deserted.

Because this is the hibernation center of Fujian Province, and many of the people who hibernate here are citizens who are on the verge of death and who are too old.

Today, the Xiamen Hibernation Center welcomed a group of special guests, namely a group of scientific researchers over 90 years old.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, when the federal government formulated the hibernation plan for young scientists, it did not recommend that everyone be concentrated in one hibernation center. This was to prevent accidents.

Currently, there are a total of 12 hibernation centers in the federal territory, which can ensure that hibernating personnel receive the safest protection after entering hibernation.

Of course, because hibernation technology is not very mature yet, the current hibernation period is only about 45 months at most.

Considering the physical factors of these old scientists, they usually only hibernate for 30 months.

Don't think that 30 months is a short period of time. In fact, it has been two and a half years.

Moreover, after hibernation, it can be recuperated for about half a year before entering hibernation again.

The Federation does not want those elderly scientists to leave completely because of the exhaustion of their lifespan. It hopes to use hibernation technology to delay time and wait for the emergence of new technologies in the future, so that these old scientists can rejuvenate and rejuvenate.

You must know that scientists are very valuable resources, especially before humans have the technology to quickly learn knowledge. It is not easy to train a top scientist.

Even if the Federation spends money and resources like crazy, and annexes the scientific talents of the Noah Society and Lucia, it still seems to be stretched thin when it comes to promotion to interstellar civilization.

Currently, the number of scientific talents who can be evaluated as senior researchers in the Federal Ministry of Science is 321,436. If some quasi-senior researchers are included, the number will not exceed 800,000.

What a small proportion that is.

You know, the total population of the Federation at this time is 3.247 billion people.

There is only one senior researcher for every 10,000 people.

This is a very small proportion. Many times people don’t want to admit the gap between people, but the reality is so obvious.

Genius scientific researchers will indeed play a vital role in the scientific research team.

The knowledge accumulation and experience of older scientists are very good, but their energy and creativity are not as good as those of young people.

If such accumulation of knowledge and experience is added to a young person, it will be unimaginable with the energy and creativity of young people.

Just like Huang Xiuyuan, he has the memory of the future and his young body. The combination of the two will produce a very obvious complementary effect.

Now the Federal Ministry of Science is secretly preparing two big plans, one is the "Rebirth Plan" and the other is the "Suhui Plan".

The Rebirth Project is aimed at elderly scientists. It uses the relatively mature cryonics technology to put elderly scientists into a state of hibernation.

Waiting for the development of future technology to extend human lifespan, these old scientists can become young people again.

As for the Suhui Plan, as the name suggests, you know what it is.

This plan is to research memory implantation technology so that humans can memorize most of human knowledge in the brain within a few years through memory implantation technology.

This can quickly cultivate young people with rich accumulation of knowledge and reduce the phenomenon of learning that cannot keep up with the times due to the growth of the total amount of human knowledge.

As human society enters the information age, the total amount of knowledge in modern human civilization has become more and more abundant. As a result, many students may not be able to master a small subject until they are in their thirties.

Let alone the emergence of scientific generalists like those of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The fundamental reason for this is that the gap between human learning ability and the total amount of knowledge in society as a whole is rapidly widening.

Just like now, in the federal scientific community, the relatively unpopular field of marine geology has 500 to 800 relatively valuable scientific papers every year.

Not to mention popular nanomaterials, semiconductors, electric field synthesis, cosmic astronomy, etc., there were thousands or even tens of thousands of scientific papers that year. Even a person with super memory like Huang Xiuyuan could not handle such a huge amount. knowledge increment.

This is the amount of new knowledge remaining after excluding some low-value papers.

With such a huge amount of knowledge, future students can imagine that they will face a situation where they will never be able to learn a single subject in their lifetime.

In order to solve this problem, schools have to extend the learning time or continuously refine the subjects.

Such solutions only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and may even be counterproductive.

Extending the study time means that the graduation age of students continues to be pushed back, and the most energetic and creative golden age of human beings is between 20 and 45 years old.

You can't graduate with a doctorate in the future until you are 40 years old.

In this way, after graduating with a Ph.D. and working for only a few years, students can enter a state of retirement, and their creativity and energy will plummet.

And constantly refining disciplines is also an act that does more harm than good. You must know that the various human disciplines are never isolated systems, but an organic whole.

The more disciplines are subdivided, the more it will lead to a decline in human creativity.

For example, the so-called nanomaterials are themselves a comprehensive subject that requires understanding of chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology, and chemistry is divided into inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, electrochemistry, polymer chemistry and so on.

By analogy, a large subject is divided into dozens or even hundreds of small subjects.

In this case, how do students learn?

After studying organic chemistry, I found that I didn’t understand topology; I tried my best to study topology, but found that I couldn’t understand high-energy physics...

In the end, the more subdivided subjects are, the weaker human learning effects and creativity will be.

Many disciplines are closely connected and complementary to each other, and it is difficult to completely separate them.

In the foreseeable future, mankind will inevitably fall into a "knowledge learning dilemma." If this problem is not solved, the current speed of human scientific development will become slower and slower, and eventually we will enter an era without innovation.

This is like a person climbing a snow-capped mountain. He can only carry as much food as his body can carry, and the food can only be eaten for two days, so he can only go two days in the end.

Even if there are a few individuals with amazing endurance (geniuses) who can continue climbing without eating or drinking, they can only climb for three days longer at most.

The dilemma of learning bottleneck is like climbing a snow mountain.

The way human knowledge is passed on is that every newborn can only start at the foot of the mountain, rather than directly inheriting the end point of its predecessors.

In this way, mankind may encounter a dilemma that cannot be surpassed by other successors after a certain peak.

In fact, this dilemma has already arisen.

After the birth of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, particle standard system and other knowledge in the last century, human beings can only do some patchwork work on the building of physics instead of moving to the next level.

The so-called God particle is also an existence that has been predicted long ago in the standard particle system of the last century.

Human civilization has reached a bottleneck.

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