The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 604 Goodbye Xiaoqi
It wasn't until the sun was westward that Jiang Yu returned to his hut through the space tunnel.

Xiao Qi is standing under the cherry tree, admiring the delicious cherries.

Jiang Yu saw that Xiao Qi had completely lost her youthful appearance, but had turned into a middle-aged man.

His appearance is different from Wei Xiang's, he doesn't have that kind of extreme elegance, but has a sense of vicissitudes, more like a person before the Great Depression.

When Xiao Qi saw Jiang Yu, he smiled slightly: "I wanted to call you Grandpa, but seeing your face, I couldn't call you Grandpa."

From the looks of the two of them now, Jiang Yu is much younger than Xiao Qi.

Jiang Yu followed with a smile: "It's good to have this kind of heart."

He glanced at the grass under the cherry tree, where the space was visibly stagnant, and then two wicker chairs and a coffee table appeared.

Jiang Yu made a gesture of please sit down, and Xiao Qi sat on one of the wicker chairs: "You seem to have gotten used to your current life."

He paused and continued: "For example, the usage of Yinhe Computer, many times it can understand when and what service you need by observing your expression and collecting information such as your habits."

Jiang Yu also sat down: "I thought it read my inner thoughts."

"Such technologies exist now," Xiao Qi said with a smile, "For example, consciousness printers, which can print out inner thoughts.

"But later this kind of product was gradually resisted by people, because it would expose the danger of people's inner thoughts, so although the consciousness printer is advanced and can improve efficiency, no one cares about it.

"Later, the Congress issued relevant bills, which greatly restricted the popularity of awareness products."

The robot served tea, and Jiang Yu took a sip of the tea and nodded: "The tea on the earth tastes much better than the tea I drank in Qingnuxing before."

Then he said: "I believe that a point I made before is still not outdated: what people often need is not the best and most advanced products, but the most suitable ones!"

"But this will affect the speed of human development!" Xiao Qi opened her arms and said, "Didn't you also popularize genetic technology when you were in office?"

Jiang Yu took a sip of tea, got up and picked two cherries, and Yinhe Computer kindly sent up a small basket.

While picking cherries, he said: "The popularization of genetic technology is because the development of human beings needs this technology."

Jiang Yu smiled warmly: "Don't be impatient, haste makes waste!

"The people's thinking must keep up with the pace of development. I also take the consciousness printer you mentioned as an example.

"People's concern, really, is that tools like this expose their minds to other people.

"There is a dark side in everyone's heart, if the dark side does not show, then this person is a bright person in our eyes.

"What if I accidentally show my dark side when working with consciousness-like equipment?"

While talking, Jiang Yu ate a cherry, which was very sweet and delicious: "Three-body star people's minds are open, but with their characteristics, they are destined not to become advanced civilizations.

"With privacy, there will be selfish thoughts. Although we don't want to admit it, selfishness has largely promoted the development of human beings.

"At least once you have privacy, you will start to plan your own interests, so that everyone will develop on roughly the same trajectory, but there are obvious differences.

"However, the development trajectory of the Trisolarans is too monotonous. Without private ownership, once they have no pressure to survive, they will seriously lose the motivation to move forward.

"I don't know what historians think about the history of the Trisolaran civilization, but I think that after the Trisolarans left the harsh living environment, it was the beginning of their decline."

Jiang Yu handed the cherries to Xiao Qi, and Xiao Qi waved her hand, indicating that she would not eat them.

Jiang Yu continued: "So the people's thinking has not yet reached the level of popularizing awareness tools.

"When people's consciousness is mainly based on light and they are not afraid to expose their own ideas, such tools can naturally spread without your promotion."

Xiao Qi took a sip of tea, frowned and said, "When will we have to wait?"

Jiang Yu spread his hands: "I don't know either."

Xiao Qi sighed: "The thing I was most worried about happened. Your thinking seems to be closer to the thinking of the historical school."

He said: "The historical school is too conservative, haven't you noticed that all the current technological breakthroughs are basically assumptions formed in the first two or three centuries of the Milky Way Era.

"We need newer ideas and newer theories to push us to a higher level, otherwise our development may be weak.

"I think it is time to vigorously develop the transformation technology between matter and matter, and between matter and energy, so that we can get rid of traditional troubles such as energy and living space in the future."

"Xiao Qi, your idea is a bit taken for granted." Jiang Yu said: "I can tell you responsibly that I have experienced the first few centuries of the Milky Way Era, but in that era no one knew which technologies and theories represented the future.

"The result you have developed now is the result of more than ten centuries of continuous trial and error.

"If you look at the source from the result, it is easy to understand the logic, but at that time we didn't know what the future result would be.

"Many technologies and theories that were thought to represent the future at the time became more tasteless the more I studied them. Many useless things can have multiple uses."

Xiao Qi lost the excitement just now, and began to think seriously about Jiang Yu's words.

Jiang Yu ate a few cherries and continued: "Humans are lucky. We have seen the results of curvature flight from the Trisolarans; we have seen the results of space jumps from Venus; The result of dimensional technology; we have seen the result of leapflight from Paradise Civilization and Gyro Civilization.

"This allows us to reduce a lot of trial and error, and the goal is clear, otherwise our progress will be slower.

"You can refer to the steam engine for this point, ah, this example may be a long time ago for you, let me just say it briefly.

"In fact, there was a prototype of the steam engine in ancient Greece, but because there was no rubber at that time and the air-tightness was too poor, the steam engine has never attracted people's attention.

"Even Watt originally wanted to use a steam engine to pump water.

"If the ancient Greeks had seen a steam train, could the steam engine have been buried for over 1000 years?

"The Trisolarans didn't wipe us out in one go. They should be very regretful, because they let us 'ancients' see the 'steam train'."

Jiang Yu looked at Xiao Qi: "Your anxiety now is mainly due to your lack of vision and your inability to see the future.

"None of us are prophets. If we do our best in the present, the future will not be too bad.

"Just like what you said about the conversion technology of matter and matter, the conversion technology of matter and energy.

"This is a hypothesis that was put forward in the Christian Era. It doesn't matter if it hasn't been realized yet. We just need to use the current technology to do our best research. Sooner or later, this technology will be realized!"

Xiao Qi seemed to understand the essence of Jiang Yu's words.

Jiang Yu said with a smile: "It's been a long time since I opened a small fire for someone."

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