"Unfortunately, I have a stress assessment every year and so far, I'm in good spirits." Qiu Ming shrugged.

"So they're actually clones, not real humans, right?" The electronic sheep looked at the group of candidates in front of him with a calm expression, as if he wanted to grasp the last straw, and couldn't wait to ask.

"I don't think you need to worry about how you came to this world, because there's no such thing as a clone or an ordinary person." Qiu Ming said, "The fertility rate of human society continued to decline for a period of time, causing concerns from all sides, and as a last resort, the federal government and several pharmaceutical giants launched an artificial reproduction plan, and decided to use a machine to simulate the human womb to conceive and raise babies, so as to increase the number of people, you are actually right, whether it is natural childbirth or new humans hatched by machines, there is no difference between body and genes, so from the beginning the federal legislation gave these two types of people the same political and survival rights." ”

"What are you kidding, then why are clones treated completely differently from ordinary people in New Shanghai 0297?" The electronic sheep asked.

"Don't you understand?" Qiu Ming sighed, "The so-called clones in New Shanghai 0297 are still ordinary people, you just need to regard them as different professions, which are artificially divided by us, in order to meet different labor needs, but there is no difference in nature between people engaged in these two professions, so to speak, have you ever bought luxury goods?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"There is a huge difference between the price of a luxury shirt and the price of an ordinary shirt, but there is actually no difference between the materials used in them, but one of them is printed with the logo of a luxury company, and the clones of New Shanghai 0297 are the same as ordinary people, whether it is a locator or a code on the back of the neck, it just plays the role of a logo, so that people living here believe that their value is different, it's as simple as that."

"Is it also a lie that only clones can be rewritten?"

"It was like this at first." Qiu Ming nodded, "Clones, or new humans hatched by machines, are raised by the Federation, and some experts have always expressed concern about this, because the living environment of such people is too similar since childhood, and they are raised intensively, and they are worried that they will become too similar because of this kind of group behavior when they grow up."

"In addition, people have been arguing over how to raise them, the first batch of new humans hatched by machines are the same as ordinary people, and they have received all kinds of education since childhood, but they live together, separated from the family relationship, in addition to the problems mentioned earlier are too similar, there are character defects caused by the absence of the original family, and the training cycle is very long, and the investment in education funds is also huge, and it is taxpayers' money that is spent, and it didn't take long for it to trigger civil protests, The Confederation is also beginning to lose its finances.

"At this time, some large groups like Shengtang Morgan proposed to set up a special fund to support the artificial reproduction plan, so that the federal government would not need to invest any more public funds, and the population problem could be solved. And not long after, these large groups came up with a new set of training programs.

"Memory encoding?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.

"That's right, this technology was successfully developed in this context, at the beginning it was to solve the problem that the new humans hatched by the machine become too similar because they live in the same environment for a long time, and at the same time, the investment in education has been reduced, and the memory coding can give the new humans different personalities and memories, so that they are just like ordinary people, not affected by similar growth backgrounds.

"Then those groups thought, since they have done it here, why don't they go one step further and compile their skills together, so that when they leave the cultivation base and go to society, they can be better employed."

"The result?" The electronic sheep asked.

"Of course, the result was a great success," Qiu Ming said, "at least at the beginning, the artificial reproduction program was originally sponsored by these large conglomerates, they know their own employment needs very well, of course they know what kind of skills to write for those new humans incubated by machines, especially some high-end skill positions, in the talent market has been very scarce, everyone is competing for each other, but still unable to meet the employment needs."

"However, when memory coding technology appears, this problem no longer exists, except for some special professions that rely on inspiration and talent, pure technology to high-end talents have become completely mass-produced, and the new humans hatched by the machine are themselves human beings, of course, some of them will be born very talented, inspired people, plus their basic knowledge is more solid, and the development is faster.

"Soon, the management or technical backbone of many companies on the market are occupied by these new humans, and many of them have better personalities, stronger obedience, and are even willing to work overtime, so that the boss of course knows how to choose, and when the ordinary people react, they find that their small leaders or top bosses have become new humans."

Qiu Ming paused, "But on the other hand, the emergence of these new human beings has indeed accelerated the development of economy and technology, making human society unprecedentedly prosperous, which is a period of great abundance of talent reserves that have never been seen in any historical stage, although at that time there were already a lot of ordinary people in society began to protest, feeling that high-end employment opportunities were crowded out, and it was becoming more and more difficult to be promoted." However, in the face of rapid economic growth, these protests and opposition have become weak.

"From the point of view of the Federation, it is impossible for them to turn back the clock of history, stop the artificial reproduction program, and let mankind return from this golden age of a thousand years to the primitive era of inefficiency and backwardness, and the backward productive forces will inevitably be replaced by the advanced productive forces, just like the wave of unemployment of workers caused by the emergence of machines, which is a social consensus in itself.

Mankind has already experienced three industrial revolutions, and this is the fourth industrial revolution. There are more and more voices crying out and criticizing those who protest, who feel that they are just maggots with pink eye, and that they are not willing to learn and hone their skills to become better, but are jealous of others, which is simply the fury of the incompetent. In addition, the Federation has been sparing no effort to promote the equal coexistence of new humans and ordinary people, and the opposition is much smaller, and then the entire human society has begun to respect memory coding technology more and more. ”