Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 206 What Does The Future Look Like?

Lin Feng was very melancholy and entangled today, pacing back and forth on the balcony, as if something big was about to happen?

A few more hours.

He will travel through the future...

Traveling 3000 years into the future...

Go to that unknown plane of time and space, and meet the group of people who have conquered the stars and the sea.

all the time.

He travels through ancient times, talks to ancient sages, and is a junior.

What now?
He became that "ancient sage" who spoke to the descendants of future generations.

As for why entangled?

Because history has happened long ago and has been fixed for a long time. After the reunification that year, everything will return to calm again.

For example, past history is like a lake.

Lin Feng was like a stone.

Although there will be circles of ripples, it won't take long for the ripples to disappear.

A lake is still a lake.

never changed.

The future will be different.

Compared with modern times, that is a period of "history" that has not yet happened, and the impact is too huge.

"Feng, what's wrong with you?" White Deer in a pink dress came out.

"Lu, why don't you sleep more?" Lin Feng squeezed out a smile, which was ugly and awkward.

"Are you okay? What's the matter?" Bai Lu approached, took Lin Feng's hand, and the two looked at each other sincerely.

Lin Feng took the girl into his arms, his eyes softened a lot, and he said softly:

"Lu, what kind of world do you think will be in the future?"

The society is developing rapidly. Looking back at history, the society is progressing step by step, and the living standards of human beings are also constantly improving.With the popularization of smart phones, the advent of intelligent robots, etc., who has thought about what the future world will become?
Bai Lu was taken aback, and asked, "Why would you ask such a question? Could it be that the vertical penetration system on your body is malfunctioning?"

"No glitches."

"Let's express it with emotion!"

Lin Feng continued, "Lu, why don't you imagine what the future of mankind will be like?"

About this illusory "unsolvable" question.

Lin Feng searched online.

In fact, some people have studied it and listed ten changes in the future on the Internet.

These are all pessimistic forecasts.

I feel that in the future, the world will not become too beautiful. On the contrary, it may encounter a series of life and death problems that human beings cannot solve.

One is global famine.

We are currently heading towards a future of mass starvation due to erratic weather patterns, economic turmoil, and population inflation.

Back 14 years ago, when food prices skyrocketed and many people starved at best and died at worst, it was just an experience to come.

As an example from history, consider the Irish Potato Famine, which went the other way due to the intervention of the nation on which the sun never sets, resulting in the deaths of some 150 million ordinary people.

A true global famine could lead to riots, revolutions and social unrest sweeping the world with devastating consequences.

The second is the pandemic of terror.

Since the beginning of the new century, in China alone, in 03, 09, etc., there have been severe pandemics and the ever-present threat of bird flu.

But the last time the world suffered an alarming flu outbreak was a long time ago.

This is worrying because it means the chances of a big one appearing are getting higher and higher.

At its height, the Pitbull Nation flu killed 100 million people a week, more than the Black Death in a century.We now have to do it again.That might not be so bad, it might be a few years away.But the scary thing is, it's coming, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

This research information was published 4 years ago.

Unfortunately, at this time, the whole world is still suffering from the extremely terrible epidemic virus.

What about in the future?

There could be even worse pandemics yet to come.

The third is the future direction of...mechanization.

It has been said that no matter how hard you study, no matter how well you achieve, you will spend most of your life - underemployed and underpaid.

Right now, we seem to be on the verge of a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence.Most forecasts suggest that this will happen in about 50-80 years, when the labor market will completely collapse.

A true AI breakthrough will mean building machines that can do everything humans can.When this happens, the entire social model goes into free fall.

Fourth is the issue of sea level rise.

There is no doubt that our climate is changing.Of all the doomsday scenarios this development could play out, perhaps none is as dramatic as rising sea levels.Once this happens, there will be a massive influx of homeless, helpless people into "safer" cities - triggering a massive scramble for resources that will be a threat to all of us, whether we are Live on the hillside.

The fifth is growing extremism.

The world is rapidly becoming a horrible, hateful place, and many people are aware of the ongoing threat of terrorism, which runs deeper than this modern extremism.

Take ancient Greece as an example, the cradle of Western civilization recently fell into a financial black hole, and the result was not ideal.

In the worsening gloom, the Reichstag movement sprouted like a toad.With the turmoil in the entire Western Continent, it is easy to imagine that we have witnessed a repeat of the 30s. As a result, human beings today have not learned lessons from history at all.

And in the future?With all kinds of terrifying technological breakthroughs, once a fight breaks out, it will be an unimaginable disaster.

Sixth is the problem of drug-resistant microorganisms.

Probably heard about antibiotic resistance, basically, it's the most likely thing to kill you in the next 50 years.

Thanks to decades of overprescribing, bacteria are becoming accustomed to our normal, everyday medications.

So we should prescribe something stronger, right?
Of course - until the super pill stops working too.We were in serious trouble then.

According to the health organization, drug-resistant infections are currently occurring in Xilu alone, killing 25000 people every year.

As more third-rate doctors prescribe unnecessary prescriptions to vast numbers of patients, and more farmers load their livestock with antibiotics, resistance levels rise until... who knows?
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Nine is the issue of household drones.

These "domestic" drones are about the size of a model airplane and are used only for surveillance.Like the insidious revelations recently from the NSA, the idea of ​​spy drones constantly spying on civilians should be worrying enough; and it could get worse.

Once that happens, we'll find tiny cameras swarming our skies, monitoring our every move.

At that point, we can say goodbye to our privacy, which sounds like a paranoid nightmare.

The last one is a machine with the ability to destroy heaven and earth.

The name LARs, for example, might sound like the name of an Amsterdam junkie, but it's actually an acronym for something far more terrifyingly evocative.

Deadly autonomous robots.

Putting future robotic overlords in combat instead of soldiers would save a whole bunch of lives.

However, recent experiments with drones have demonstrated that automation tends to result in large numbers of civilian casualties, so if drones are already driving more people to Al Qaeda.

Can imagine what a Terminator fleet that terrorizes the world and is doing evil in every corner of the world will do when recruiting personnel?
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"The future, of course, is beautiful!"

Bailu said optimistically, "Technological breakthroughs in various industries will solve the problems of our lives. In the future, we may move to the moon, or build our own even larger heavenly city outside the starry sky..."

Lin Feng said suddenly, "Lu, if I tell you that in the future, about a thousand years or so, the blue star will be impacted by the moon, two huge celestial bodies will collide and be destroyed, will you believe it?"

Bailu raised his fair face and said, "Have you ever been to the future?"

Lin Feng said, "I haven't been there, but I want to see it, because I had a nightmare. After a thousand years, this blue star land will turn into a terrifying sea of ​​magma and fire. I want to know, at that time, we humans Will the tinder still exist?"

"Dream?"

"Is the traceability system entrusting a dream?"

"I want you to go to the future for a walk?" Bailu said.

"Probably so!"

Lin Feng said again, "It's just going to the future to see the people of the future, everything is unknown."

Bai Lu's face changed suddenly, "Feng, you mean, life is in danger?"

Lin Feng said, "This is also an unknown."

Why is Lin Feng so melancholy?so entangled?That's why.

"Feng, can you take me with you?" Bailu said with firm eyes.

"No."

"You're going to stay."

"wait for me."

One more person means one more unknown risk. Bailu is his beloved woman and he cannot let her get into trouble.

Subsequently.

The couple talked a lot, a lot.

Even everything about their future marriage and children, raising children, and retirement in old age is discussed.

Before you know it, night falls.

Looking at the sky full of stars.

Lin Feng was about to say goodbye.

"Feng, you must come back, I, I will always, always wait for you to come home..."

Bailu choked and said, when he talked about his sadness, two lines of crystal tears flowed down his cheeks.

A gust of wind blows.

It was foggy.

Waving goodbye to Lin Feng, his body disappeared little by little, getting darker and darker.

Until it disappears under the starry night.

disappeared in this era.

future.

What is it like?

See you soon.

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(End of this chapter)