Chapter 607: Civilization Bottleneck
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The earth civilization that has now entered the interstellar age is a dual-system development civilization that is quite rare in the universe, with one leg developing along the path of the scientific and technological system, and the other leg evolving along the path of cultivation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Needless to say, if we want to make progress, we must have a deeper and deeper understanding and research of the whole world, which requires more high-quality scientific research talents.
The more talents with high intelligence, who can quickly learn and master a large number of basic knowledge of the scientific system, and who can conduct pioneering research in many frontier fields, the faster they can drive the rapid development of the earth's civilization.
Although a considerable part of the reason for the rapid progress of the earth's civilization is that the earth's civilization has the knowledge inheritance of the vicissitudes of civilization, even if there are these high-level ready-made knowledge sources, if you want to fully understand and absorb them and absorb them into the scientific and technological system of the earth's civilization, it will also require a lot of talents.
Without a sufficient number of high-quality talents, even if there is something ready-made, there is a great possibility that it will be difficult to digest and understand, and at this point the continued development of the entire civilization will become an empty word.
If you want to have enough high-level talents, what you need is a sufficient population base and a large enough space for civilization to survive, and only with these basic conditions can a civilization give birth to a sufficient number of high-quality population seeds, and only then can it have sufficient momentum for development.
And in order to do this, the first thing this civilization needs to have is enough civilization strength, you don't have enough hard power, why do you want to survive in the cruel universe, and find a sufficient number of precious habitable planets in the vast universe that can be used by a large number of people to survive and reproduce?
Therefore, for a civilization, sufficient manpower and sufficient technology are necessary for the survival and development of civilization.
In addition to providing a sufficient number of top-notch talents and resources for research, development and development in the most cutting-edge fields, a sufficient population can also provide a sufficient number of manpower and material resources to provide the basic needs of various aspects of clothing, food, housing, and transportation for the development and growth of civilization.
The most high-end talents research, design, produce and manufacture the highest level of civilization products, and other talents from all walks of life provide these talents with all aspects of material needs, and all aspects of the conditions are very substantial, a civilization can develop for a long time and rapidly, in order to occupy a larger territory, reproduce more population, and develop a more high-end and more effective variety of civilization products.
The existence of various technologies gradually developed in this process is the accumulation of the wealth and wisdom of a civilization, which can make the civilization itself more efficient, faster and more stable, and become more powerful.
If there is no sufficient technical level, it is difficult to have a sufficiently efficient educational ability, and it is difficult to make all kinds of talents grow more efficiently and rapidly, which is equivalent to a waste of manpower in disguise for civilization, thereby reducing the competitiveness and comprehensive strength of civilization itself.
Therefore, for a conventional scientific and technological civilization, human resources and scientific and technological level are the two wheels of civilization forces on each other's surface, and the height reached by the product of the two can better represent the height of civilization itself.
For many civilizations, the existence of the level of science and technology is a hard indicator, as long as you reach the corresponding level, it will naturally reach a certain level of civilization, there is nothing to speak of, but the level of human resources is different, but it is a deep-rooted existence.
Even if two different civilizations have the same level of technology and the same population size, their strength may be very different.
Imagine a civilization of talent born in a very large proportion, each existing population, after growing up to be able to form productivity, the smartest can be the top scientist, but even if the brain is stupid, through hard work can also master superb cooking skills, so that can be qualified for the position of chef, such a civilization that makes the best use of its talents, its inherent endowment is naturally incomparable, has extraordinary development potential, and has a production efficiency that is completely comparable to the quality of its population, and the comprehensive strength of its civilization is naturally self-evident。
And if the situation is the opposite, although a civilization has a corresponding technological height, but the number of garbage population within the civilization remains high, there is an extreme shortage of high-quality talents, and it is difficult for mid-level talents to be competent.
Therefore, the level of human resources of a civilization can actually be composed of two different levels of elements, the size of the population is one level, and the quality of the population is another level, and the product of the two can roughly measure the level of human resources of a civilization.
If a civilization only has a population size, but the quality of the population is difficult to improve, then once such a civilization develops to the height of the bottleneck that its civilization can develop, it will immediately face the situation of civilization stagnation, and it is still a trivial matter to not be able to develop for a long time, and more importantly, once it is followed or even surpassed by the latecomers, then its civilization itself will immediately suffer a great crisis, and it is still a trivial matter to be compressed, squeezed, and forced to shrink the development space of civilization. A domineering enemy, then it is not impossible for a family to be destroyed and a civilization to be destroyed at every turn.
Ordinary scientific and technological civilization, if you want to improve the number of civilized population, it is relatively easy, if there is enough space for its own development, it only needs to make reasonable policy adjustments, appropriately increase the supply of various commodities, with the growth of time, the enhancement of people's will, the population size will always grow at a relatively rapid rate, which represents the improvement of the comprehensive strength of civilization itself.
However, compared with the improvement of the size of the population, the improvement of the quality of the population is undoubtedly much more difficult.
It is slightly easier to improve the quality of the population at the level of soft power, whether it is the improvement of the level of the education system, The improvement of knowledge structure or the improvement of educational technology is already relatively easy to do, but even so, if you want to rely on these soft power level improvements, so as to improve the quality of the population of this civilization, it often takes dozens of years of continuous efforts to have a certain degree of gain, and in order to obtain this slight quality gap, the entire civilization often has to pay the price of large-scale social system transformation, and the cost of paying is quite expensive.
With the intensive education of civilization from generation to generation, it is possible for the quality of a civilized population to continue to improve a little bit, which not only pays an astonishing price, but also often has a bottleneck, even if many civilizations strengthen education, after a certain extent, they will often be unable to advance, and even face the embarrassing situation of not advancing but retreating, and the achievements of civilization that have been obtained may be lost again.
In the final analysis, this means of improving the quality of the population through education is actually difficult to improve the quality of the population at the essential level, which is only to act as a medium of development through educational means, so as to dig deep into the development potential of the population itself, and after a certain extent, it will naturally be unsustainable, just like a bottle filled with water, that is, if you want to pour water into it, the bottle is so big, it can't be filled with anything beyond the capacity of the bottle itself.
Imagine that ordinary means of education, itself have to adapt to the constraints of the quality conditions of the population itself, even if the level of education is high, it is nothing more than to let people learn more efficient learning methods, learn to more effective research tools, education itself is unable to change the quality of the human body itself, it can neither make people more intelligent and clear-sighted, nor can it really make people become more intelligent and strong, based on the development of human quality itself, naturally sooner or later because of the existence of the upper limit of the human body's own quality, and become useless. After this step, it will be extremely difficult to improve the quality of the population even the slightest.
At this point, the development of many civilizations can no longer rely on enhancing the quality of the population to promote, and more depends on the growth of population size and the birth of probabilistic top geniuses, so as to drive the rapid development of civilization itself.
Not to mention that under this development model, the birth of top talents depends heavily on the probability of occurrence, which is very unstable, and more importantly, the population growth of civilization needs to depend on the increase of civilization living space, and the increase of living space is not only difficult, extremely costly, and even sometimes it is difficult to increase at all, which is the reason why many civilizations can no longer make breakthroughs after they have developed to a certain extent.
For scientific and technological civilization, in addition to the development and progress at the level of education, the most fundamental way to enhance the quality of the population is often only a small path, that is, based on the development and progress of human genetic research, if the biological field breaks through to a certain degree and researches high-quality genetic potions, then whether it is to essentially improve the quality of the population in all aspects of the civilization, or to enhance the life expectancy of the population, it can break through the limit to a large extent and enhance the population quality of the civilization.
However, the research in the field of biology is also an extremely difficult and incomparably difficult field, and even the slightest breakthrough in these fields requires an incomparably huge investment of manpower and material resources, and if you want to obtain a major scientific research breakthrough, it is often rare to have it once in hundreds or tens of thousands of years, and even once there is an accident in the research, it will lead to the birth of catastrophic and terrifying consequences, so this road is equivalent to a path that is close to nothing for the vast majority of civilizations.
Even some incomparably developed super civilizations have taken the wrong path in the field of biology and genes, which eventually leads to the accumulation of the entire civilization. Eventually, things happen, so ordinary scientific and technological civilizations, after developing to a certain extent, will stop, and even after a long history of development, they will eventually become more and more degraded, and the things that have completely lost the ability of the ancestors are simply commonplace, and some civilizations will go to destruction by themselves even if they are not threatened by external factors, which can even be said to be everywhere in the vast universe.
In the final analysis, the reason why this happens is to a large extent that the individual qualities of these civilizations will become the key bottleneck restricting the development of civilization after the civilization has developed to a certain extent, and the bottleneck will be difficult to break through for a long time, which will naturally lead to the regression or even destruction of civilization.
However, for the earth civilization, in addition to the scientific and technological system, the development of an additional cultivation system has made the earth civilization qualitatively different from the ordinary scientific and technological civilization.
The best thing that the cultivation civilization is best at is to enhance the quality of the human body in essence, so that the original weak and unbearable, the individual with extremely low quality in all aspects, through step by step cultivation, slowly becomes stronger, more intelligent, more long-lived, more sensitive, these aspects of continuous growth, all mean the continuous strengthening of an individual's quality, from an individual to the generalization, for the civilization means that the growth of civilization has been greatly enhanced, and the development of civilization will no longer have a bottleneck limit.
As long as individuals continue to cultivate and grow, and the overall scale of civilization continues to expand, then civilization itself will naturally gain more and more powerful enterprising ability, and can continue to grow and break through in all fields, which ultimately brings about the continuous evolution of civilization strength.
However, just as the development and breakthrough in the field of science and technology requires continuous investment in manpower and material resources as the basis for growth, the earth civilization wants to make breakthroughs in the field of cultivation one after another, and there is also an incomparably huge demand for resources and manpower.
In terms of manpower investment, the continuous development of the cultivation system means that more and more people have embarked on the path of cultivation, thus giving birth to more and more great achievers, and constantly achieving new results in various fields such as runes, planting, refining, alchemy, and beasts. For higher-level cultivators, this human investment itself is a great opportunity and benefit, and the earth civilization itself is still too short of resources, so naturally it will not let other civilizations follow the same path, so as to compete with the earth civilization for resources.
However, in terms of access to resources, the many members of the Earth Alliance are of great significance to the development of Earth civilization.