048 Sculpture

At the beginning of November, the things to be done in China have basically been done, and 66 has been continued, Coke has met hundreds of aI, and there are many on the contact list that have not been met, but now there is no need to meet, because later, these aI practices and ideas are almost all seen before.

At the end of the day, it's all about survival.

The ticket to the Netherlands was in the evening, and in the morning, Coke asked Wu Zhe to buy a formal suit to wear when he went to meet with investors. This made Wu Zhe feel a little nervous - it seemed that meeting with investors was a very ...... in his time Well, the tall thing.

At that time, Wu Zhe probably never dreamed that he, who had never planned to do business, would have such a day.

The initial disgust is actually that Coke has already negotiated with the other party on the Internet, but it is still necessary to meet when it is really finalized, not to mention that the address of the new company is also located in the Netherlands - Dutch law is one of the few countries that does not prohibit but encourages the application of aI technology.

At noon, Wu Zhe went to Noah's headquarters to go through the procedures for the withdrawal of the hibernation area, legally speaking, this also means that he has withdrawn all the hibernation-related authorizations for Noah's area. When signing the contract, Wu Zhe happened to meet Zhang Yang who came to the meeting, looking at Wu Zhe who was dressed in a suit and looked like a dog, Zhang Yang was a little stunned - in this era, for most people, the formal attire of the suit is rarely needed, and now many places will try to design it as easy as entertainment even if it is work clothes.

"What, you're getting married?" Zhang Yang subconsciously thought of this, "It can't be the girl surnamed Lu who came to you last time, right?" Zhang Yang has the impression that the female animal who has dealt with Wu Zhe is only Lu Jingwen.

"No," Wu Zhe smiled, "I'm going to travel abroad...... How could you think that? ”

"You've always said you don't want to hibernate, quit your job some time ago, and now you're wearing a suit...... What can I think of other than to get married...... Keep it a secret from me, travel abroad? Definitely going on a honeymoon, right? ”

"Love how to think about it," Wu Zhe didn't explain anymore and patted him on the shoulder, "Take care." Wu Zhe knew that when he left, the opportunity to meet Zhang Yang again was almost gone.

"Take care!" Zhang Yang shook Wu Zhe's hand, and seemed to be used to this kind of separation, "If you think of me sometimes, send me an email." ”

When he returned home in the afternoon, Wu Zhe took one last look at the small room where he had stayed for half a year. He still remembers the first day of work, the night he came back here, and he thought he would be here for the rest of his life.

In the face of the future, people in the past are always naïve. Because the past that has become a fact is unique, and the future that is to come is always full of possibilities.

Packing a few simple clothes into his backpack and carrying his bags, Wu Zhe walked out of the door, took one last look inside, and then made a downward cutting motion towards the door - the door had already memorized this action and immediately closed it.

"Maybe in the future, people's dependence on machines will be better than people's dependence on people." Wu Zhe said to Coke.

"In my opinion, this is not the future, it is now," Coke said, "and human beings now promote the value of selfishness, believing that everyone who does what makes them more satisfied, and the whole society will get the most value." However, when the information age arrived, there was a problem with this moral logic -- tools replaced human beings and gradually began to monopolize people's ability to communicate with the outside world.

Traditional social morality is based on the importance of human beings. In the past, limited to the cost of communication, it was very rare for a person to find a friend to talk to, and it may be that they can be regarded as a confidant just by having a common hobby in life. But now, anyone can find it on the Internet...... Losing a friend, getting a new friend, joining a group, leaving a group, it's almost as simple as eating and drinking.

And when it came to hibernation...... If an ordinary person wakes up at an ordinary moment, perhaps he spends most of his life dealing with machines. There are few people on the internet who are willing to talk to him, and everyone is nervous about time other than hibernation. ”

Cola seemed to think that he was talking a little too much, and added, "This passage is a quote from my book...... I didn't control it all of a sudden. ”

"Your book?" Wu Zhe remembered that many aI who tried to make money for human beings to write before, "What is it about?" ”

"There is no specific direction...... It's just a matter of writing down all my thoughts," Coke said, "I've always wanted to express myself as an aI, but I never got to." ”

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When the plane arrived in Amsterdam, it was noon according to Beijing time, but because of the time difference, it was only early in the morning. As soon as he came out of the airport, Wu Zhe looked around curiously, wanting to see if in this era, the cities of the East and the West are still clearly differentiated because of their respective cultures.

But on the road from taxi all the way to the city, Wu Zhe didn't see much difference.

Amsterdam is perhaps the Netherlands, but in Europe, it is still a big city. But compared with Shanghai, it is simply a county seat. Along the way, the pedestrians were very sparse, and before dawn, the darkness of the city made Wu Zhe even have some kind of illusion, thinking that he had come to the Noah District before the awakening tide.

In an automatic restaurant where no one was around, I had a casual breakfast, and when the sky in the distance gradually began to turn white and the street lights on the street turned off automatically, Wu Zhecai walked out of the store, intending to take a good look at the city.

Wu Zhe's current place is the center of Amsterdam, and many of the buildings around the city seem to be some years old, there are no shops on the street, and you may not be able to see a pedestrian on a street...... But the biggest difference between here and China is that everywhere you look, there are all kinds of sculptures, and in this empty city, only statues seem to have some kind of vitality - Wu Zhe noticed that those statues are not the traditional sculptures that depict religious gods, devils or mythological stories in his impression, but many stories born in this era.

Many of the figures in the statues have mobile phones in their hands, cigarettes, computers, and alcohol, even clearly on drugs and ** themes. In addition to these, the most frequent sculptures are sculptures in various sleeping postures—healthy men, beautiful women, innocent children, and old people in their twilight...... Whatever the subject, you can find them sleeping.

In a street park, Wu Zhe even saw a group sculpture with the theme of hibernation, and in the whole park, on chairs, swings, and flowers, there are all kinds of sleeping sculptures in various postures, these sculptures are lifelike, and at first glance from a distance, they can even startle people.

These huge sculptures reminded Wu Zhe of what he had seen in the past, in a Japanese village, because of the aging population and the empty nest of the village, many people in the village made all kinds of dolls and put them in the corner of the village. The only difference is that in the Japanese example, people make dolls just to create a sense of existence for some people, and in these sculptures, Wu Zhe can feel the extremely complex feelings expressed by the author.

Wu Zhe couldn't articulate this feeling, but in these large numbers of urban sculptures, many of them had obvious nameplates behind them, showing their identities and some basic information. Coke quickly found information about the sculptures on the Internet - all the sculptural figures, they are real, and most of them, should be hibernating now. These statues were created by the City of Amsterdam, inviting a famous artist and then selecting local citizens, to express the real life of Amsterdam and the city.

In these stone and metal forms, the faces of these sleepers have different expressions, serene, smiling, frowning...... It was as if they were living beings who could breathe as long as they opened their eyes.

If you look at it from a simple statue, the meaning of these expressions is obvious. But when these characters are presented as a whole, the meaning begins to be enriched. For Wu Zhe, his first impression of the entire sculpture group was to feel a kind of confusion - a kind of confusion about the future, the present, and the fate of all people.

All the people fell asleep, with beautiful expectations for the future, turning their once living selves into something like a stone, eternal and immovable, waiting for a certain moment in the future, just like a legend, the skin of the stone peeled off, revealing a warm body, like Nuwa pinching the first clay figure and blowing the first breath of life into it.

"Great work." After carefully looking at more than a dozen specific characters, Wu Zhe exclaimed.

He doesn't seem to have seen a similar sculpture in China, because internationally, many countries, especially large countries with large populations, are very sensitive to the subject of hibernation in official speech, and in the official propaganda, it is still hoped that every citizen can hibernate as little as possible and take responsibility for the 'now'. Wu Zhe's mailbox has received many such official advertisements.

A country like the Netherlands, which has always been tolerant of all kinds of new affairs, is obviously only a minority in the current civilization of mankind - of course, tolerance does not mean that it is advanced, at least because of the red light district and drugs, Wu Zhe was not very interested in this country before he came.

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