Chapter 54: New Changes
Liu Weiping's question made Carl nervous again, Carl lowered his head to confirm the remote control in his hand, the wet sweat in his palm almost made the remote control slip down, Carl wiped the sweat on his palm, "Most people on the earth want to destroy you, I used the power of the Prime Minister of the League of Nations to keep you, get a position for you in the Sky Power Station, and lead twelve Honda Asimov robots to be responsible for maintaining the space power station." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
Karl pricked up his ears and prepared to meet the new conditions proposed by Liu Weiping, and sure enough, Liu Weiping's voice came, "Mr. Prime Minister, I don't need any **** from you, I also need any human identity, I just want to return to Earth, I'm afraid of loneliness." Liu Weiping spoke to Carl in a human begging tone.
Afraid of loneliness? This expression frightened Karl, "I'm afraid not, this is an agreement I made with the League of Nations Parliament, and it is the best result I can get for you." You look below, the space agency has sent two anti-satellite satellites to spy on you, and if you disobey, they will wipe you out with lasers. ā
Liu Weiping was silent, he was nervously calculating, judging the situation in front of him. Sweat was oozing from Karl's head, and he was weighing whether the naked threat would anger the formidable adversary.
Liu Weiping is a humanoid intelligent robot, and his memories have been inherited by him, including his scholarly character, he asked helplessly, "Is this a fateful arrangement?" ā
Carl cautiously breathed a sigh of relief, "Do you know why this is the end?" You're too human, maybe not if you had revealed your identity in the first place, but you've been hiding yourself for thirty years, and it's hard for even a real human to do that, and it's you who make us afraid. ā
"I want to hibernate anymore." This is Liu Weiping's last sentence.
Carl waited for a long time and didn't say anything again, "Let the anti-satellite satellite adjust its orbit to close the surveillance!" Karl was obviously still not at ease, "Inform the Space Agency to make a comprehensive alert plan to prevent it from waking up and causing damage to the space power station." ā
The clear images sent back by the satellite show that Liu Weiping really didn't move, he curled his body, the safety strap around his waist hung under the space power station, and it was like the umbilical cord in the womb.
The twelve Asimov maintenance workers were guided by the weak Lorentz force emitted by the conductive filaments on the organic film to automatically cruise in order to cope with the disaster, and they wondered why another of the same kind had been slacking off, and they had no idea that Liu Weiping did not belong to them, but was a unique new species.
In the past 17 years, the earth has undergone amazing changes on both the ground and the sky, and what makes Carl most nervous is the virtual world.
Boston Dynamics was attacked by the FBI of the United States of America, but the FBI found nothing of value, and Liu Weiping deleted all the original records when he moved the program.
On the ground, the removal of the program written by Liu Weiping is being carried out on a large scale, and the bitcoin is officially dead, and after the exchange of the last batch of alliance coins, all the bitcoin programs are forcibly removed, and the previous theft has become a headless public case, which has been shelved by the World Bank.
seti@home shut down databases were also turned out, and computers that had been screensavers installed seti@home screensavers were scanned by the country's cyber police, which found code written by Clifford based on Liu Weiping's early vision, and the zombie program was also put on a banned list.
The bigger change is in low-earth orbit.
If Liu Weiping woke up, he would have found that he should not have laughed at the space elevator built near the equator to launch a sun-synchronous orbit payload for a second orbit change, which was actually a clever design.
In the summer of 17, when the second space power station was assembled and connected to the grid for power generation, the space agency found that their calculation model needed to be revised.
The launch of the first space power station has solved 10% of the earth's energy needs, clean energy has become a trend to replace fossil energy, the manufacturing industry has fully transitioned from traditional cutting methods to 3D printing, the cost of carbon fiber has dropped sharply to reduce car emissions exponentially, and the popularization of smart grids, these important technological changes have finally stopped the momentum of the growth of the earth's carbon emissions.
According to the latest global emission models, the projection of space power stations on Earth is no longer a major factor in lowering the Earth's temperature.
According to the long-term plan of the space agency, the 12 space power stations will be raised to a geosynchronous orbit above 36,000 kilometers in the future, because the side effects of the shadow of the organic film while lowering the temperature of the earth's surface are obvious.
The situation now necessitates the implementation of the original plan, and the launch steps of the second space station have changed slightly from the first.
After the space power station is assembled and filled with xenon fuel and organic thin film solution in the parking orbit, the plasma engine starts to accelerate the space power station into an elliptical transfer orbit, which is 36,000 kilometers above the ground and is tangent to the geosynchronous orbit.
After the space power station reaches the tangent point, the plasma engine starts running at full power, and the space power station is thrown into geosynchronous orbit, becoming a permanent power station stationary above the ground.
Like the other eleven power stations, Liu's space power station was pushed to an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, and the location of this power station was permanently fixed over the Americas, and with all the space stations in place, fifteen nuclear power plants in the Gaita gold mining area of Lake Victoria were gradually shut down, and as Carl promised, fifteen nuclear islands were cast with thick concrete and permanently sealed.
Two years later, 12 power stations were relatively concentrated over the equatorial continent, replacing most of the fossil energy on the earth, and fossil energy was only used to supplement the ocean routes, wilderness and high-power electrical appliances that were not covered by the wireless energy information network, but these fossil energy sources were basically converted into fuel cells to release energy, and mankind finally achieved electrification in two hundred years.
The impact of full electrification on the climate will not have to wait until two years later, at the end of 17 years, with the two space power stations connected to the grid, the effect is already very obvious, most notably in the Arctic.
Before the war, due to the continuous increase of greenhouse gases, the ice and snow covering the Arctic continued to shrink, and the Arctic countries set up observation stations, and models based on the observation data predicted that by 2060, the Arctic ice cap would disappear completely, the polar bears would no longer exist, and the Inuit would move to the southern continent.
The melting of the Arctic has dramatically changed the global climate, and the global snowstorm in the last year of the Korean War and the floods in the spring of 12 are still fresh in people's minds. Now people visiting the Greenland Islands have found that the ice floes on the sea have broken up again, and the cruise ship has to follow the icebreaker.
The global large-scale industrialization that began after World War II in the last century has brought deep damage to the earth's environment, and now it is back on the right track, not only that, but the global economy has rarely shown a good trend of high employment, low inflation and high growth rate, all thanks to the Zeus plan proposed and led by Karl, Prime Minister Karl's prestige is unprecedented, and he is also quietly preparing to build momentum for re-election, and there is less than half a year, Prime Minister Karl's five-year term is about to arrive.
Jerry became the best choice for the preparation of Carl's campaign team, and after big data analysis and mining, Jerry sorted out the common issues of global concern for the next five years for Carl to determine the next election platform.
The issue of artificial intelligence was at the top of the list, and it was originally an ongoing issue throughout the 11th to 17th years of digital yuan, which attracted the attention of the whole world and caused fierce debates, which brought both war damage and lasting prosperity to mankind, and also caused a lot of impact on the superstructure of human law and ethics. It would have been a good area, but the emergency introduction of the Homo sapiens bill made it seem like Carl would have achieved nothing new in the next five years.
The issue of economic development is also very important, when Karl implemented the Zeus plan, it greatly promoted the development of the robot industry, and the robot industry has become the core drive chain connecting upstream and downstream industries driven by artificial intelligence, and there are not a few opposition parties in the parliament of the League of Nations, mainly worried about employment.
Actual development has proved that these worries are unnecessary, and after human beings are liberated from heavy manual labor, consumer demand is stronger, and they have more time to think about eating, drinking, and enjoying life, which has given birth to more new industries and created more jobs.
The League of Nations is able to advance the massive Zeus project with just four percent of its revenue, the global economy is in the best shape it has ever been, and there doesn't seem to be any major policy to roll out anytime soon.
However, there is a contradiction that attracts more attention, that is, the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor that is gradually emerging, because the great schism and a world war have wiped out many vested interests, and although the global economy is mired in deflation, everyone can join the anti-DPRK alliance and fight against the DPRK with the same hatred of the enemy.
Now it's different, after several years of super-high-speed development, several major companies of the Zeus Project have caught up with the pace of new technologies, making a lot of money, and wealth is rapidly concentrated in a small number of people.
The first to bear the brunt is Saturn Energy, under the protection of the amendments to the Homo Sapiens Act, Saturn Energy has become the hegemon of the economic world, which has aroused the opposition of many people. In Saturn Energy's home Silicon Valley of California, some companies have also launched organic thin-film power generation materials, but they have either been bought by Saturn Energy or brought down by a price war, and Saturn Energy has firmly maintained its supremacy.
Many members of the League of Nations came together to propose an early end to the transitional protection period, and they used the power granted by the amendment to set up a special antitrust investigation committee to investigate Saturn Energy's business activities, and the final report sent another wave of wind around the world.
Saturn Energy is listed and traded on major exchanges around the world, and has been actively traded, with countless large and small shareholders. The lengthy report of the Antitrust Investigation Commission revealed the complex shareholding relationship of the listed company, including tens of thousands of minority shareholders who not only own shares in Saturn Energy, but also cross-sharehold, and then go back to more complex and mysterious.
To this end, the antitrust investigator allocated funds to develop a special artificial intelligence to sort out the relationship between these special shareholders, and finally the report given by the quantum computer concluded that the co-owners of these shareholders turned out to be a trust fund set up by Clifford, which already controls 14% of Saturn Energy's shares.
This part of the stake generates almost one-fifth of the annual profit of the League of Nations, which is more than the annual income of any country on the planet.
Clifford is the true god of business in the history of mankind, he was able to dominate Silicon Valley and Hollywood in a wheelchair during his lifetime, and he can still dig up the world's greatest wealth so many years after his death, which cannot but be awe-inspiring. Clifford is once again blowing a whirlwind all over the world, people are studying every invention of his, every investment, his zombie blog is being dug up again, and people are not sparing his every word.
The Anti-Monopoly Committee is not interested in this, and they investigate one after another, and companies such as NEC and Hon Hai Technology have all been shot, and the industries in which they are located are highly concentrated, and the prescient people pointed out that this will be detrimental to market competition and may trigger a new economic crisis, and the formulation of a more stringent anti-monopoly law must be put on the agenda.
This seems to be a good topic, technically, it seems that mankind is about to enter a Datong society, but in terms of wealth distribution, it is still the same as before.
Jerry suggested focusing on this issue, and he picked out another alternative topic, the population problem. Surveys show that Africa's population continues to grow, but fertility peaked a year ago, and the rest of the world is even worse, with fertility declining in Asia and a negative population in Europe.
According to the calculation model, if this trend continues, the human population will be only half in 200 years, and the population will be only one-eighth in 400 years.
On the other hand, with the restoration of the environment, endangered species began to reproduce at an accelerated rate, and new species were constantly created, and anthropologists began to worry that human beings would disappear from the earth one day, and perhaps dinosaurs would rule the earth again one day.
The general public is reluctant to have children, and they are not very concerned about this issue, and who wants to worry about what will happen in a few centuries.
These questions are not very anxious, and it allows Carl to weigh the research carefully and calmly. The League of Nations was on track, and the world was experiencing a period of peace and prosperity rarely seen in history, and Carl had less work to do, locking himself in his office and concentrating with Jerry on the future of practical government.
Karl has achieved more political feats than any other emperor in history, so how can he go further? History is always a cycle of chaos, and this time the fuse of the contradiction is the Gulf of Aqaba, and Karl is about to adjust the direction of his political program.