Chapter 354 Meeting

Chapter 354 Meeting

Chapter 354 Meeting
3 month 6 day.

As the host, Ho Kam-tang delivered a standard opening speech at the Global Climate Summit, and then announced the official start of the Guangzhou Global Climate Summit.

As he started, the participants began their work according to the meeting arrangements.

For example, Gawain Fan, who came from the Netherlands before, is in the EU delegation.

There are a large number of participants in this climate summit, about 5,000 people, all of whom are people related to the environment, climate, ecology, ocean, geology and industry from various forces.

Gao Wenfan and several Dutch scholars are visiting the new technology exhibition hall in Seris, which is also the first point that makes this climate summit different from previous ones.

In previous global climate summits, representatives from various parties sat down to discuss climate-related topics.

This time, the Yangcheng Climate Summit changed the meeting format. The total meeting time is one month, during which representatives of various forces can hold discussions, and then hold a thematic meeting every six days.

As for whether the outcome of the meeting can be accepted by all parties, it is still an unknown. After all, each party has its own interests and it is impossible for them to sacrifice themselves to help other forces. This determines that it is difficult for such a meeting to come up with a mandatory agreement.

For example, the carbon tax model that the European Union was previously working on has now been shelved and they are not even discussing it anymore.

The fundamental reason for this situation is that the Asian community has gained a decisive advantage in carbon neutrality. The European Union has been completely crushed both in terms of technology and the scale of related industries.

If the EU continues to insist on the carbon tax model at this time, EU companies will have to pay hundreds of billions of yuan in carbon taxes to Serbia every year.

Obviously, this result is unacceptable to the EU, which directly leads to the bankruptcy of the carbon tax model.

The third hall of the New Technology Exhibition Hall.

Gao Wen Fan stood in front of a booth, looking at the English introduction on the booth.

His good friend Lucas, a bearded man, was trying out a device with the help of the booth staff.

The theme of the third hall is: Environmentally friendly products.

Gao Wen Fan looked over the visitors and asked the product manager who had just introduced the product to them, "Ms. Ke, I'm a little curious why your product is classified as an environmentally friendly product?"

Ke Dan also smiled as she picked up her company's product, a tablet computer. She explained: "Although we have adopted many new energy-saving and environmental protection improvements in our production process, overall, the product itself is bound to have an inherent environmental pollution mark, which is difficult to completely solve worldwide."

Gao Wen Fan nodded to show his approval.

"But the functions of this tablet can bring a more environmentally friendly life to every family."

Gao Wen Fan was more interested now: "Are you achieving environmental protection from the perspective of family life?"

"That's right. This is our company's product development concept. You have to know that with the explosion of industrial and agricultural technology, since the Asian Federation entered the Platinum Age, the production capacity of various products has generally increased by two to five times compared to before the crisis, and some have even increased by hundreds of times."

As for the so-called Platinum Age, this is a new concept that has emerged within the Asian Union in recent years.

Many experts and scholars have re-divided modern Asia into three stages, namely the Silver Age from 1945 to 1991, the Golden Age from 1992 to 2028, and the Platinum Age starting in 2029.

One of the biggest characteristics of the Platinum Age is the great abundance of material goods and the highly affluent life of residents, which is somewhat similar to the East Asian version of the Nordic countries.

Obviously, judging from this era division, the reference subjects are Japan and Seris. The representative of the Silver Age is Japan, the representative of the Golden Age is Seris, and the Asian Federation is the subject of the Platinum Age.

As for European and American forces, although their development status is related to the Asian Union, it cannot be used as a criterion for dividing the Asian region.

Gao Wen Fan listened quietly to Ke Dan's introduction.

"Due to the explosion of industry and agriculture, waste in residents' lives has become more and more serious, which is obviously not in line with the concept of environmentally friendly living. Therefore, our company developed this environmentally friendly smart tablet."

After listening for a while, Gao Wen Fan expressed his doubts: "How can it ensure that family life is environmentally friendly?"

"The current waste in family life is mainly concentrated in food waste. Many families cannot eat that much in one meal, but often make more food than they need for each meal."

Gao Wen Fan deeply agrees that Europe and the United States have the same problem in this regard. The more developed the region, the more serious the food waste situation.

Of course, Japan and South Korea are relatively alternative developed countries. Their own agricultural product production capacity is limited, which leads to the fact that the food waste rate of their residents is not as high as that of Serbia.

However, as the integration within the Asian Community continues to deepen, the scale of food consumption by residents in Japan and South Korea is also skyrocketing.

Especially in terms of vegetables and fruits, the residents of Japan and South Korea used to be very stingy in their consumption of vegetables and fruits, but now their consumption is almost on par with that of Serbia.

In the past, the consumption of vegetables and fruits was not high, not because people did not want to eat them, but because the local agricultural cooperatives were not fair and the prices of vegetables and fruits remained high, so residents naturally did not have the purchasing power to consume them.

Now that vegetables and fruits from Seres and Southeast Asia are available year-round, their consumption has naturally soared.

Ke Dan: "To reduce food waste during household consumption, we have embedded a professional housekeeper AI inside our tablets, which can run offline."

Gao Wen Fan didn't quite understand the significance of this offline function: "Offline operation? What's the advantage of this?"

"Mr. Gao Wen, with the development of artificial intelligence technology and the emergence of various smart homes, the privacy of our family is becoming a problem."

"I understand." Gao Wen Fan understood immediately.

Ke Dan continued: "Therefore, the new generation of smart home management systems are required to actively execute offline mode to fully protect the user's home privacy."

"Very good, your product is very good." Gao Wen Fan really liked this. However, no normal person would like his life to be monitored 24 hours a day.

This is also an important reason why the current nano vital sign monitor has entered a bottleneck period in promotion.

Because once the nano vital sign monitor is implanted, many of the user's physiological activities will be collected and analyzed by the system background.

Even the judicial systems in some areas have begun to recognize that the monitoring data of nanovital sign monitors can be used as decisive evidence.

For example, in Star Island, which has always been relatively advanced, they acknowledged the data from the nano vital signs monitor.

The nano vital sign monitor is really very comprehensive. For example, in the case of sexual crimes, the physiological changes of both parties will be visible in front of the nano vital sign monitor, and it provides round-the-clock monitoring.

Last year, Sing Tao had a very sensational case in which a Serbian entrepreneur was set up by a professional gang. All the evidence was very clear at the time, and there was a mixture of body fluids of both parties on the bed sheets in the room.

It was not until the entrepreneur was reminded by his friend that he had a nano-vital sign monitor implanted in his hand and could apply for the day's vital sign data from the health management center that the case of false accusation and extortion was settled.

Because according to historical data retrieved from the health management center, the entrepreneur's sex hormone levels had been very stable that night, but chemical components that could cause a person to fall into a coma were found in his body.

This immediately turned the whole case around.

After all, if the two parties really had sex that night, the relevant hormones in the entrepreneur's body would not have been so stable, and it would have been impossible to find chemical components that could cause people to fall into coma.

Therefore, the two words privacy and security are sometimes not contradictory, but may also be a complementary system.

There is no right or wrong in technology itself.

The user is the key to whether the technology is good or bad.

For example, opioid ingredients, in the hands of bad people, become addictive poisons; in the hands of good people, they are drugs that reduce patients' pain.

With the development of nano vital sign monitors, the contradiction between security and privacy has become a hotly discussed topic among the general public, but overall, young people are more accepting of it.

After all, nano vital signs monitors can not only save lives, but also fight crime and ensure one's innocence.

Otherwise, like the entrepreneur in Sing Tao who was framed, sometimes he really has no way to defend himself. As long as the other party is well prepared and has a more sophisticated method, and if the nano vital sign monitor is not implanted, then the false accusation will become an ironclad case.

The downside of the nano vital signs monitor is that it will automatically alarm in the background.

For example, if two people go to a hotel to book a room, and if the background data shows that the two are not married or are not a registered boyfriend and girlfriend, then I'm sorry, the background will automatically sound an alarm.

The so-called non-boyfriend/girlfriend status is a new concept that has emerged in the process of development of the times.

If you want to date now, you must go to the local community to get a relationship certificate and register both parties as being in a relationship on the official website, otherwise it will be considered an illegal transaction.

As for whether someone will take advantage of the loophole?

It is impossible at all, because a romantic relationship can only be registered once a month, which is the same for both parties. Although it is very simple to terminate the relationship, as long as one party cancels the registration on the official website, the romantic relationship between the two parties will be automatically cancelled, but this record is permanent.

Therefore, if you want to do something like SeSe, you can’t even open a hotel if you haven’t registered your relationship.

As for how single people meet their physiological needs and whether they will be overly suppressed, the answer is technology.

That’s right, it’s using technology to solve physiological needs.

Nowadays, the technology of highly bionic humans is very advanced. Last year, a company in Shanghai called "AISIJI Technology Company" developed a new modified silicone material. This material is highly similar to human skin and is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

Combined with the integration of other technologies, bionic human technology can now replicate human appearance, body temperature, and functions of some organs on a one-to-one basis, as well as have built-in independent AI and internal electric motors, achieving a physical sensation similar to that of a real person.

Thanks to this material, the iPhone company earned nearly 2 billion yuan last year.

After this material came out, the sales of customized dolls worth several thousand yuan on the market increased by almost 240%.

Technology is the key to solving problems.

Anyway, the sales of related products have been rising steadily in recent years.

As for whether the surge in doll sales will lead to a further decline in the fertility rate, there is indeed a certain relationship between the two, but this is the general trend.

The Asian Community's approach to solving the problems of declining fertility rates and an aging population is also to take a technological approach, intending to use artificial infant breeding technology to replace some natural births.

After all, many young people don’t want to have children, and we can’t force them to do so!

Therefore, the artificial baby cultivation technology that uses artificial uterine cultivation chambers and various new technologies, such as somatic cell directed cultivation technology, artificial amniotic fluid technology, embryo environment simulation technology, etc., has become a mainstream idea at present.

In short, it can be summed up in two sentences:
If young people don’t want to have children, then let machines do it.

However, in recent years, the topic of having children has undergone a rather interesting counter-cyclical transformation. Especially after seeing the official continuous promotion of artificial baby breeding technology projects, the fertility rate among young people has actually increased a lot.

In fact, this situation is also very normal
That's a broken market.

In the past, having children was essentially treated by many people as a special commodity, which was packaged as marriage and sold blatantly.

This is like in agricultural production, when there was no genetically modified technology, everyone could only accept natural varieties. But when genetically modified varieties appeared, especially when they were actually put into use, natural varieties would inevitably face competition.

Judging from the current development trend of modern agriculture, natural varieties, hybrid varieties, genetically modified varieties, and gene-edited varieties, this is a gradual development process, which is almost a general trend. It is difficult for individuals to go against the trend, and at most they can only grow some natural varieties at home.

Natural reproduction, in vitro fertilization, artificial fertilization, this is also a process.

Especially when the scale of natural reproduction continues to decline, in order to solve the problem of population aging, promoting the implementation of artificial infant technology is almost an inevitable choice.

This is how the times change.

It is impossible that society will not develop artificial childbearing technology just because you like natural reproduction.

As human baby technology was officially implemented, the impact it brought began to appear. One of the biggest impacts was the complete collapse of the marriage market.

It has to collapse.

After all, many people marry just to continue the family line. Now that machines can give birth to children, marrying becomes an optional option.

This means that the previous sky-high bride prices can no longer maintain their basic support.

However, after the sky-high bride price was eliminated, the number of marriages increased, which in turn promoted the increase in natural fertility rate.

I can only say that sometimes people are just mean.

Without the pressure of artificial insemination technology, many people would not bow their heads, but would continue to choose to wait for the price. Now that their last bit of dignity has been completely torn away by the new technology, these people have instead accepted marriages without receiving a dowry.

(End of this chapter)