Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

Mo Dao was not involved in the fields of scientific research and technological exploration in his previous lives.

Therefore, in the past few generations, in terms of technological development, although the subtleties may have been different due to some butterfly effects,

But the big picture is basically the same.

And even if Mo Dao had not been in the field of scientific research in previous lives,

However, we still have a relatively clear understanding of the development context of technology and science in the next seventy years.

After all, whether he is the spiritual leader of the Kerner youth or a professor in the philosophy department of Capital University,

Even if Mo Dao didn't pay attention, relevant information would inevitably appear in his sight.

Overall,

In the next seventy years, people will basically go from optimism to pessimism to negativity towards the development of science and technology.

If you put people today and people 70 years from now together, you will find that their understanding of technological development is completely different.

At this moment, in 2012, most people believe that technology will inevitably develop forward. When imagining the world seventy years from now,

No matter which direction you go, there should be a huge difference from now.

Because for people at this time, huge changes have occurred in the past seventy years.

Seventy years later, most people believe that technological development will be slow and stagnant, which is a common perception.

When they imagine the world seventy years from now, they basically believe that there should not be much difference from what it was then.

At this time, people were not too frustrated by the slow pace of technological development, because this was normal and common sense to them.

This recognition, which can be called a 180-degree U-turn, is caused by the development of science and technology in the past seventy years.

What people are looking forward to at this moment,

Several major technologies that symbolize the future will basically not be realized in the next seventy years.

The first is artificial intelligence.

In the 1920s, large models of language and conversational intelligence were introduced.

In a simple and crude way, by superimposing massive data and using quantity for quality, a good interactive effect is achieved.

People at that time thought they had seen the light of day.

The entire 1920s was an era of explosion of large intelligent language models.

Then, everything stopped here.

Later, various large language models went through several rounds of iterations by practitioners around the world.

Every update makes people feel that they are closer to the future and the artificial intelligence that people expected.

But in the end,

People went from expectation and excitement to negativity.

The best large-scale language model only achieves a certain degree of simulation in dialogue.

I don’t know if it’s an inherent flaw in its algorithm or if the amount of data is still not enough.

In other words, this road is not going in the direction that people expect.

General artificial intelligence is still far from what people expect.

After the end of the 1920s, the development wave of this large language model gradually subsided, and finally basically stagnated.

At that time, many researchers in artificial intelligence also proposed,

Perhaps the path of general artificial intelligence is simply wrong, and perhaps we should focus more on developing unique artificial intelligence in specific fields.

This iteration of the development of large language models and conversational AI has allowed another industry to develop and upgrade in order to satisfy the more primitive desires of human beings.

It once caused a lot of ethical problems.

also,

About artificial intelligence,

At this time, people are looking forward to another thing, namely fully intelligent driving.

It was partially realized.

But in the entire world, it was finally realized only in most areas of China and a few other countries.

But it does not all rely on the development of science and technology.

Relying on the industrial transformation and upgrading at that time, China eliminated most of the old cars that could not meet the needs of intelligent driving.

Through the overall initiative, intelligent driving is met, or one of the most important problems in fully intelligent driving is solved - there are no or fewer cars driven by pedestrians on the road.

Let the vast majority of cars on the road be driven by smart cars, which has greatly reduced the technical difficulty of popularizing smart driving.

Through various auxiliary means on the road,

Finally, fully intelligent driving in most areas was achieved.

To achieve this, China also spent a considerable amount of time and the process was quite difficult. It also took advantage of the trend of industrial transformation and upgrading.

Except for China, other places in the world that achieve this are basically small countries with few people and few cars.

And basically the technical solutions provided by Huaguo are used.

In addition to artificial intelligence,

Another thing is materials.

In terms of theory, even seventy years later, materials research still does not have a complete theoretical system like physics that can guide the direction of research and development.

The development of computational materials science can only be said to be not optimistic.

The process of materials research and development, except for some empirical formulas, application theories and the empirical intuition of researchers, is basically still a state of "drawing a blind box".

And obviously,

People's luck wasn't very good.

It’s not that no new materials have been born during the past seventy years. In fact, there are still many new materials emerging every year.

But there is basically nothing that can meet people’s expectations for the future.

In the field of materials,

It is quite imaginative, but the research and development of normal-pressure and room-temperature superconducting materials is still far away.

Although every few years, it seems that there are suspected room-temperature superconducting materials being found,

but in the end, there is basically no follow-up.

Every time, it seems that there is only a little distance from the discovery of room-temperature superconducting materials,

but in the end, the room-temperature superconducting materials that can truly meet people's expectations have never been found.

At that time,

a scholar of superconducting materials said in an interview with the media,

"I have been looking for it for forty years. It may really exist, but it may be on the 'back' of us, on the 'back' of our thinking, and we will never find it."

This is a rather pessimistic statement, but it was recognized by many people at the time.

Finally,

it is the controlled nuclear fusion in energy that Mo Dao is going to study in this life.

Since the concept of controlled nuclear fusion was born,

it has been the ideal energy source of the next era in people's minds.

It can serve as a source of power to drive mankind into a new era.

However, in the next seventy years, this future technology will still belong to the future.

It is not that it has not developed.

In fact, an important experiment on controlled nuclear fusion has been extending the time of plasma confinement.

But the real controlled nuclear fusion power generation is still a long way off.

Because until Mo Dao's reincarnation, the research on controlled nuclear fusion, in addition to plasma confinement, has another huge problem,

the self-sustaining rate of the controlled nuclear fusion device.

If the controlled nuclear fusion device is to be able to burst out unlimited energy as people expect,

at least one thing must be met, that is, the power input into the controlled nuclear fusion device must be less than the power generated by the controlled nuclear fusion device itself.

The power generated by the controlled nuclear fusion device must be able to meet its own operation, and it must output energy hundreds or thousands of times.

In addition, the duration of plasma confinement itself has unresolved problems, and there is obviously a big gap between simulation experiments and real device power generation.

There is also the problem of ignition.

In short, even after seventy years, there are still many problems with the controlled nuclear fusion device.

The entire research and development of controlled nuclear fusion is not as if it has always been said to be always fifty years away.

But in the previous lives, the next seventy years basically went from fifty years away from realization to thirty years away from realization, and then ten years.

But ten years later, this time became twenty years again.

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