Chapter 366 Atomic Man

Chapter 366 Atomic Man

Chapter 366 Atomic Man

After leaving school, Gao Wen brought his daughter Gina to the green park on the south side of Xixin District.

June is the coldest month in Sydney, but due to its proximity to the sea and the influence of the subtropical monsoon climate, the temperature here is still relatively high, reaching 16 or 17 degrees Celsius during the day.

The evergreen trees in the park are still lush and green.

Due to Australia's strict restrictions on the entry of alien species, many of the flowers, plants and trees here are native to Australia, and only a small number of plants were brought here by modern Europeans.

"Dad, I want to eat that..." Gina pointed at the snack cart not far away, her eyes full of desire.

"No problem." Gao Wen brought his daughter to the snack cart, where the owner was frying octopus balls and egg burgers.

The boss was a middle-aged woman who looked a bit like a Seres. She glanced at Gawain and his daughter and pressed the translator on her wrist:
"What does the guest want?"

A simultaneous translator mounted on the glass panel speaks the same meaning in English through the loudspeaker.

"A small portion of octopus balls and an egg burger."

"OK, please wait a moment."

"Is that five dollars in total?"

"Yes, guest."

Gao Wen directly used his mobile phone to scan the code and paid five yuan.

Now the direct use of Huayuan is fully allowed in Australia. Gao Wen has been in Seris for a period of time, so he can naturally understand the currency prompt on the payment code.

The female boss quickly prepared a small portion of octopus balls. She looked at Gawain and asked:
"Would you like your egg burger spicy or non-spicy?"

"Oh... not spicy."

"Want some tomato juice?"

"want."

"Guest, the food is ready."

Take the small bag.

The father and daughter came to the shade of a tree nearby, where there happened to be some flower beds made of stone slabs, perfect for people to sit down and rest.

It's winter now, so Gao Wen dares to let his daughter sit next to the flower bed. If it were spring, summer or autumn, he wouldn't dare to do so, because the wild insects and reptiles in Australia are relatively large, and they will become very active when the weather gets warmer.

Sitting down, he opened the small paper box and picked up a bamboo stick for his daughter: "Pick it up and eat it."

"Dad, what is this called?" Gina picked up an octopus ball.

"This is called octopus balls."

"Octopus? Is it an octopus?"

"Almost." Gawain took a bite of the egg burger.

This kind of open urban green park is visited by nearby residents in groups of three or five, many of whom are young people.

However, Gao Wen discovered a strange phenomenon.

In the small sports field opposite them, many of the people playing basketball, badminton, and table tennis were middle-aged and elderly, and there were very few young people.

Young people, on the other hand, tend to cycle, walk, jog, etc. in parks.

He couldn't quite understand why this happened.

After opening a bottle of mineral water for his daughter, he quickly finished the egg burger in his hand, then picked up his mobile phone to search the Internet for related content.

Soon he found several related social research articles in the social forum section of the fantasy world. After reading for a while, he suddenly realized.

The fundamental reason for this situation is the changes in human social relations, which is also related to the population structure.

The social habits of middle-aged and elderly people tend to be traditional, so they have more circles of friends in real life.

Young people tend to socialize on virtual networks, so they have relatively fewer friends in real life.

Most ball sports are group sports, which require the support of a real circle of friends, otherwise it will be difficult to carry out.

Track and field sports support individual participation, so they are a better type of sport for young people who have a small circle of friends in real life.

Of course, Gao Wen read the discussions on the forum and knew that this was not just a matter of the size of the circle of friends.

There are many reasons why young people are generally lonely, such as DINKs, workers receiving comprehensive protection, only children, social risks, etc. These are the reasons why young people like to be alone.

This phenomenon also gave rise to a relatively novel concept, namely atomic man and molecular man.

A traditional family is like a series of strongly bound molecules. Although each person in the family is an atom, they are bound together because of family relationships, thus forming the concept of molecular people.

But in the Platinum Age, this situation began to change.

Completely independent atomic people, that is, atomic people without strong binding relationships, are becoming more and more numerous in this era.

The foundations of the existence of families, clans, villages and groups in the traditional sense have suffered very serious impacts.

For example, at the forum, a sociologist from Japan published a very special social experiment.

The content is that Japan has launched a very special pilot project in Tokyo.

The main content of this project is to establish an "Academy City" in a district near Tokyo to cultivate artificial babies.

Currently, a total of 2000 babies have been approved for breeding under this project.

The parents of these artificial babies are all germ cell donors. Then, through biotechnology, the germ cells are paired and the fertilized eggs develop in artificial uterine capsules.

The first batch of babies were hatched in March of this year and are currently being cared for by specialized nannies in the Academy City.

The biological parents of these children can also meet the children and even be recognized as their biological parents.

However, the custody and guardianship of these children all belong to the Japanese government.

In other words, the relationship between children in Academy City and their biological parents is limited to genetic connection, and in the legal sense, there is no relationship of support and maintenance, inheritance and inheritance between the two parties.

This is also the true atomic man.

After reading the article, Gao Wen, as a Christian, felt very conflicted and confused.

Japan was forced into this pilot project out of necessity.

Because as they have been fully integrated into the Asian Community, although the living standards of residents have quickly recovered to the level of the 1980s, some problems have already become a fait accompli or are difficult to reverse.

Last year, Japan's fertility rate directly showed negative growth, especially after a large number of people immigrated to Australia and Southeast Asia, which led to a continuous decline in Japan's native population.

The problems of population aging, declining birthrate and DINK are becoming increasingly serious. In order to ensure that there will be more labor force in the future to maintain various local systems, Japan has to take such extreme measures.

If artificial babies can be bred in large numbers in the future, the labor problem will be solved. At the same time, these artificial babies can also further disintegrate the power of chaebols and large families.

In fact, Japan can carry out this kind of pilot project, and Seris has put in a lot of effort behind the scenes.

Seris secretly supported this project and encountered the same problem, so it let Japan conduct a pilot project first. If there are problems with Japan's pilot project, it can be adjusted later.

Gao Wen didn't know that Seris was behind this, but this did not prevent him from rejecting this project.

It was a pity that when he browsed the responses from Japanese people on the Fantasy World platform, he found that the vast majority of Japanese people did not care about this project, and a large number of them expressed support.

He saw some reasons why Japanese people expressed their support and indifference from the replies in the comment section.

It doesn't matter which group of Japanese people belong to. They think that since they don't get married or have children, their current life is very good, but they will definitely need young people to supplement the labor force in the future.

Therefore, people in this group feel that this matter is actually of certain benefit to them.

The reason given by those in support is that they want to have offspring but do not want to bear the responsibility of raising them. They also think that children are very troublesome. If the government is willing to raise them in a unified manner, then they think it is acceptable.

On the contrary, those who express opposition have very little voice on the Japanese Internet.

According to the relevant survey on the website, among young people, the proportions of support, neutrality and opposition to this project are 39%, 47% and 14% respectively.

This is not only the case in Japan, but also in South Korea and Serbia.

There is no way. When the risks of traditional families far outweigh the benefits, the models of artificial babies and socialized upbringing seem acceptable to many people.

At the same time, the probability of genetic diseases in the next generation bred in this way is greatly reduced, which is beneficial to the future of human civilization.

As for those who maintain traditional ideas and hope to form families and have offspring naturally, their rights will naturally be respected, but the premise is that they are responsible for their own choices and cannot oppose the artificial breeding model.

In fact, judging from social surveys in various regions, the traditional family model still has too many drawbacks.

The vast majority of parents are not qualified. After all, schools do not have professional training for parents. Ordinary parents who rely on the experience of the previous generation and knowledge influenced by society have more or less problems.

Every year there are news reports that many irresponsible parents cause their children to have various problems.

The family environment has a huge impact on children. Nowadays, many parents spoil and pamper their children, which makes the children more fragile, willful and extreme.

A better social support system can effectively solve a large part of the problems.

Gao Wen naturally saw the discussion in this regard, and he had no way of denying this benefit.

For example, in his hometown in the Netherlands, several neighbors' children did have problems to varying degrees, such as smoking and drinking at a young age, and bullying other children.

The parents of these children bear a great deal of responsibility for this situation.

But this is also a helpless reality, that is, many children's parents need to work and cannot focus most of their energy on their children.

Modern industrialization and urbanization have led to many people having to work outside. Faced with this work model, they sometimes have to make a choice between family and work.

If they are high-income people, their income alone can support the whole family. Then at least one of the parents can focus on the family, and there will not be much of a problem.

However, in many families, there are two working parents, and the children are often left to be taken care of by their grandparents.

This situation is actually worse than the social support model.

After all, the elderly’s thinking patterns have long been out of date, and their understanding of many things remains in the old ways.

Moreover, letting the elderly take care of children will invisibly affect their health.

We had no choice before and had to adopt this model out of necessity.

Now that there are various options available, it is natural to carefully consider the pros and cons of various parenting models.

As for children raised by society, whether a large number of them will become cold-hearted due to lack of family affection, this is actually not a big problem.

For example, the teacher in charge of education can, to a certain extent, act as the child's parent, and professional caregivers can also replace some of the functions of the parents.

In addition, you can arrange fixed dormitories so that several children can stay together for a long time. In the future, they will form a relationship similar to that of brothers. Although they are not related by blood, the environment of living together for a long time will naturally have a subtle influence on them.

In short, the problems of social support models can be changed through institutional adjustments and technological progress.

This is actually easier to arrange than a traditional family.

After all, in a traditional family, once a relationship is bound, it is difficult to dissolve it.

If a child is reborn into a good family and meets good parents, his life will definitely be better.

But if the child encounters irresponsible parents, or parents with extremely bad and weird personalities, the child's life may be ruined.

However, faced with this situation, the authorities cannot forcibly deprive the couple of their relationship, and such family affairs are often difficult to handle.

The social upbringing model is different. The nature of the two is different, and every aspect of the social upbringing model can be controlled and intervened.

Gao Wen watched it for more than an hour and had to admit that if the social support model could achieve the desired effect, it could indeed solve the problem of an aging population and also address many of the drawbacks of traditional families.

"Dad, I've finished eating."

Gao Wen almost forgot that his daughter was beside him. After coming to his senses, he smiled and ordered: "Gina, throw the garbage into the trash can."

"Where is the trash can..." Gina looked around and soon found a trash can. She trotted and threw a small bag of trash into the trash can.

"Very good, Gina, Daddy will take you to catch the toys?"

"Okay!"

The father and daughter came to a toy store near the park and opened a plush doll machine.

Gina excitedly operated the handle and tried to grab the stuffed toy inside with the robotic hand.

There were also many parents playing with their children around.

Gao Wen also encouraged his daughter. He no longer thought about the so-called social upbringing because he felt it was meaningless.

After all, at the current rate of population aging, in order to ensure the population size of the Asian Union, the promotion of artificial insemination and social care is almost a foregone conclusion.

But he is just a small climate scholar, so even if he opposes it, it will be of no use.

Gao Wen also couldn't help but sigh that in the Platinum Age of rapid technological development, human social models are also undergoing earth-shaking changes.

The social innovation brought about by this technology is sometimes difficult to interrupt.

At the same time, social support is also conducive to building a more equitable world, because the accumulation of the previous generation will not be able to be passed on to the next generation through family and blood ties.

After everyone dies, all their property will be recovered and circulated into society again, which can solve some of the problems of class stratification.

There are many people like Gao Wen who are ignorant, but there are also many people who see the impact of the social upbringing model and the threat it poses to their families.

But they had no way to stop the tide of the times.

(End of this chapter)