Chapter 362 We Are Already in the Future

Chapter 362 We Are Already in the Future

Chapter 362 We Are Already in the Future

After chatting with Jiang Haibo about company matters for more than an hour, Jiang Miao continued to deal with some work arrangements of the company.

The sun is setting outside the window.

The corridor illuminated by the setting sun.

The rhythmic sound of light footsteps echoed faintly.

Jiang Miao and his wife, who had just returned from the scientific research base, walked towards the stairs arm in arm. His office was one floor below the top-floor villa in the headquarters building, so he usually went up the stairs instead of taking the elevator when he got home.

"The first phase of my project will be completed in the next few days. Would you like to take some time to travel this month?" Shuya said as they walked.

"This month? Sure! But where's the pocket?"

Shuya arranged everything for her daughter without any hesitation: "Let mom and dad take care of her for a week, there shouldn't be any problem."

"Okay, where are you planning to travel?" Jiang Miao had already arrived at the sky garden of the top-floor villa. He leaned against the railing, and the evening breeze blew his shirt.

"How about going to Borneo?"

"It's probably the peak typhoon season in the rainforest right now, and the weather is very hot, so you should think it over carefully."

Shuya rolled her eyes at him and said, "Do you think the current tropical rainforest city will affect our tourism?"

Jiang Miao also thought it made sense: "Okay! If you want to go, go ahead!"

"Then let's go over and see Youwei!"

"Didn't she go back to Yangcheng to work?"

"Something happened to her last month, so she took the opportunity to go to the new hospital in Malaysia to train new people."

"Last month? Why haven't I heard you mention it?"

Shuya brushed the ends of her hair that were messed up by the wind, and asked with a half-smile, "Were you at home last month?"

"Uh!?" Jiang Miao came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly: "Why haven't I heard you and Youwei mention this?"

"It's not a big deal. There's no need to call you. I just suddenly thought of it." Shuya was tired of standing, so she sat down under a Chinese hydrangea and continued:
"It was the old mother of her ex-boyfriend who went to the department where Youwei worked to cause trouble. The person in charge of Yangcheng Hailufeng Hospital thought this matter was very troublesome, so he suggested that Youwei stop working in Yangcheng to avoid any trouble."

Jiang Miao frowned. This kind of thing was actually very troublesome. At that time, He Youwei's boyfriend was the attending physician of another hospital in Yangcheng. The two met when they were exchanging medical technology on lupus erythematosus.

With He Jintang's intervention, their relationship fell through. Later, her ex-boyfriend was fired from his job at the hospital and his medical license was revoked because of his promiscuous relationships and other problems.

Obviously, this incident is a very serious blow to a doctor and almost marks the end of his career.

You should know that the current Seris medical system is highly consistent with the entire Asian Union. If the practicing physician's license is revoked in the Seris medical system, it means that it will be difficult to engage in the medical industry within the entire Asian Union.

Therefore, it is very human for the other party's old mother to come to the hospital where He Youwei works to cause trouble.

Under such circumstances, the person in charge of Yangcheng Hailufeng Hospital suggested that He Youwei be transferred to work elsewhere, which was also a helpless choice.

After all, as a practicing physician who specializes in treating lupus erythematosus, He Youwei's number can be booked online, and which Hailufeng hospital in China she works in can also be found online.

This is ten thousand times easier to investigate than investigating Jiang Miao and his wife.

Although as a private hospital, it can directly put people on the blacklist, but the other party can still get He Youwei's number by borrowing other people's identities. This is almost unsolvable.

As long as He Youwei is a working doctor, it will be difficult for her to avoid being targeted.

Therefore, transferring to work in another place is a better solution.

He Youwei didn't want to trouble the hospital, so she took the initiative to propose to work at the Hailufeng Hospital in Borneo, Malaysia for a period of time.

Jiang Miao could only express his understanding of this result, and then changed the subject:

"Have you finished that project?"

"It's just the first stage. The rest of the content is not that simple." When Shuya talked about this, she couldn't help but reveal a look of headache on her face.

This was a scientific research project she started at the end of last year. The research direction was the decomposition of asphalt by fungi. This was not a project that Shuya wanted to research herself, but a scientific research project commissioned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"What difficulties have you encountered?"

"The decomposition is not complete. With the help of fermentation containers and specific auxiliary materials, one ton of asphalt can only decompose about 600 cubic meters of methane, which is less than 430 kilograms. The remaining residue also contains a large amount of hydrocarbons."

"Then take your time!" Jiang Miao didn't say anything like leave it to him, but let Shuya do it slowly by herself.

After all, this technology is not an important core technology.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences did not expect to achieve results immediately.

In fact, Shuya’s research project is not limited to the decomposition of asphalt, but also includes the decomposition of plastics, rubber, and other areas.

These things are similar to asphalt. They are all composed of high-molecular compounds. They are also complex compounds that are difficult to decompose in a short period of time through natural degradation.

If we have to wait for nature to evolve microorganisms that can efficiently decompose plastic, rubber and asphalt, it will probably take hundreds of thousands of years.

It is highly likely that humans will not be able to wait until this time.

Currently, we can only artificially accelerate the evolution of microorganisms through laboratory methods to make them produce a "special attack" effect on specific high-molecular compounds.

In fact, there is no big problem with plastics within the Asian Community at present.

This situation is mainly related to some special circumstances of the Asian Union.

On the one hand, Asia has a tradition of burning garbage, which results in a lot of plastic waste being burned before entering the natural transfer stage.

On the other hand, Asia has done a relatively good job in recycling and reusing plastics, further reducing the amount of plastic waste flowing into the natural environment.

Then, new technologies have emerged in recent years. Companies led by Hailufeng Group have developed a large number of polylactic acid plastics that can be quickly decomposed by microorganisms. These new environmentally friendly plastics have replaced many traditional plastic daily necessities.

For example, plastic bags, plastic films, plastic mulch, plastic furniture, etc., if there are no specific requirements for application products, the plastic components they contain will be changed to polylactic acid plastic.

The last influencing factor is the large-scale emergence of sewage treatment plants and seawater desalination plants.

Thanks to technological innovations, these two types of water treatment plants can almost 100% filter out microplastic particles in the water.

After purification, the by-products produced, namely sludge rich in microplastic particles, will also be sent to special fermentation plants to decompose methane through microorganisms, thereby completely decomposing the microplastic components.

Shuya did not develop the technology of using microorganisms to decompose plastic because Hailufeng Group had already mastered the relevant technology.

This is also an important reason why the Chinese Academy of Sciences entrusted the project of microbial decomposition of asphalt to Shuya. After all, Hailufeng Group already has relevant technical reserves and can accelerate the research and development of technology.

Looking at the distant mountain, the sunset glow was almost gone. Shuya did not talk about her research project, but asked about Jiang Miao's situation:
"What about your project? Can you spare some time to travel to Borneo for a week?"

Jiang Miao shook his head: "No problem, I have arranged all the projects here, it doesn't matter if I relax occasionally."

Suddenly Shuya's expression became serious: "I looked at the confidential paper library within the group some time ago. Is the Project 33 you are researching too dangerous?"

"Project No. 33?" Jiang Miao immediately remembered which project it was, and he replied calmly:
"Everything is under control." "Really?" Shuya looked a little suspicious.

Under the light and shadow of the setting sun, Jiang Miao's face was a little blurry, but his tone was full of decisive confidence:

"Do you think I would do something I'm not sure of?"

Shuya did not directly refute her husband in front of her, but reminded him meaningfully: "I know you are confident in your skills, but that kind of technology is too dangerous after all. You should know what the danger is."

"Shuya! Where do you think the future of mankind will go?" Jiang Miao did not give a direct answer, but asked back slowly with a long tone.

"..." Shuya remained silent. She looked at her husband again. At this moment, she had to re-examine Jiang Miao.

'Perhaps I never really understood his heart...'

"The future! It seems far away, but it is so close." Jiang Miao sighed quietly, expressing his inner emotions in an inexplicable tone.

Shuya seemed to understand the uneasiness and vigilance in that voice, and asked in confusion, "What are you worried about?"

Jiang Miao looked at his wife's black and white eyes with burning eyes: "The reason I'm worried is because we are in the future!"

"We are in the future?" Shuya murmured to herself, and then repeated, "We are in the future! You are right, we are indeed in the future now. We have bid farewell to the golden age and have entered the sci-fi platinum age."

At this moment, Shuya seemed to have understood her husband's inner anxiety and his vigilance as if he was facing life and death tomorrow.

She stood up, hugged her husband from behind, put her cheek against his back, and whispered softly:

"You should tell me these things. After all, we are a family. We should face things together, right?"

"Sorry! I just don't want to make you too upset." Jiang Miao turned around and hugged Shu Ya tightly again, stroking her black hair with his hand.

Shuya buried her head in his chest and said calmly: "Then tell me about Project 33!"

"That project was led by Lao He's old comrade Wang Lifeng, and it was a confidential project in cooperation with our group."

"Lao He?"

"Youwei's father."

"learn."

Jiang Miao continued to explain in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "The main purpose of Project 33, or the surface purpose, is to study biological exoskeleton armor to enhance human combat effectiveness and environmental survivability."

"I read the paper and it analyzed this point, but since it is a superficial purpose, what about the internal purpose? Let me guess..."

Jiang Miao did not interrupt his wife's analysis.

"Your inner purpose is most likely evolution, right? To allow humans to achieve true biological ascension."

"That's right, this is my real purpose."

There was also a hint of melancholy in Shuya's voice: "Has it come to this?"

Jiang Miao sighed and said, "After entering the Platinum Age, I felt that I was too naive. I underestimated the speed of my own and human development, and it's too late now."

Shuya's body trembled slightly. She understood the meaning of her husband's words. It was because she understood it that she trembled involuntarily.

The impact brought by Jiang Miao is too great.

He is the creator of the Platinum Age, who almost single-handedly leveraged the development of an entire era.

But he could also become humanity's gravedigger.

This is the core reason why Jiang Miao feels so anxious and can't wait to try to use technology to enable humans to enter biological ascension.

In the current Platinum Age, the amount of resources invested by the Asian Federation in various scientific and technological research and development is almost dozens of times that of the Golden Age.

This number is not an exaggeration at all.

Even a little conservative.

Take the aerospace sector alone as an example.

In 2025, at the end of the golden age, Seres' official investment in the aerospace field was about 700 billion yuan.

By 2030, this figure will increase to 3100 billion yuan.

Moreover, the 3100 billion yuan in the Platinum Age is at least equivalent to the 8000 billion yuan in the Golden Age.

What a scary number this is.

In an era of great material abundance, scientists are happy, especially in a force like the Asian Union, where funding is basically put into practice.

Such a huge amount of resources have been injected into the field of scientific research. In addition, the number of science and engineering students in the Asian Commonwealth is almost the largest in the world. The chain reaction produced by these situations has caused new technologies in the Asian Commonwealth to emerge like mushrooms after a spring rain.

This is also why Jiang Miao said that he underestimated the speed of technological development of the times and felt that it was difficult to put on the brakes.

The technology of the Asian Union will undergo tremendous progress in the next twenty years.

However, there is a huge uncertainty as to whether this earth-shaking technological progress will lead mankind to a further step or lead human civilization to the end.

Although Jiang Miao has an identification panel, he can quickly develop many technologies.

But this does not affect the possibility that mankind is heading towards doomsday.

Because there is no good or bad technology.

The key to determining whether technology is good or bad lies in human beings themselves.

Current productivity has already reached a high level of overflow, but whether humans can firmly grasp the benefits brought by technology while suppressing the negative impacts of technology in the platinum age of productivity blowout will be a great test of human determination.

That’s why Jiang Miao said, we are already in the future.

This technology, which is like a god or a devil, is gradually moving towards the edge of being out of control.

To put it in a more trendy way, humans cannot grasp current technology.

However, it is impossible to recover such a huge investment of resources, and it becomes almost impossible to suppress the development of science and technology.

For example, the artificial intelligence technology that Jiang Miao has always been very worried about, after receiving huge resource support from the Platinum Era, the intelligence of AI is now getting higher and higher, and intermediate artificial intelligence has already appeared.

If the development speed continues at this level, it is estimated that the first strong artificial intelligence will most likely appear within ten years.

This is definitely bad news.

Human civilization is still too weak in thought and philosophy; the human body itself is also limited by innate genes.

Once strong artificial intelligence appears, the possibility of losing control is almost over 99.999%.

(End of this chapter)