Author: White clouds flutter

In the following years, Say did not hibernate immediately, but guided the academic research-based society he proposed, gradually manifesting itself in reality.

The academic atmosphere of human civilization gradually became stronger, and colleges and universities and knowledge bases began to be built. At the same time, the already perfect welfare began to gradually cover everyone.

With their excellent memory and strong physical strength, it is not difficult for the new humans to take four or five doctorate degrees, so people's academic qualifications began to gradually improve.

In this era, although giants like Einstein are still rare, in theory everyone has the ability to conduct scientific research and conduct higher education.

At the same time, with the increasingly developed welfare, the currency that has been with mankind for a long time has begun to be gradually eliminated. The wealth and degrees created for human civilization have gradually become a means of proving social status in the new era.

But the most important breakthrough is the birth of a super artificial intelligence named "Xiao Xi". With the now developed Internet of Things, "Xiao Xi" can be said to be everywhere.

Its main body is thousands of supercomputing centers distributed throughout the solar system, as well as hundreds of millions of computers and electronic devices in the Internet of Things.

"Xiao Xi" is responsible for coordinating the economic activity data of the entire human society, and then reducing the collection and processing of huge and cumbersome data.

At the same time, it is also responsible for operating the social contribution system, which is a set of software established by humans one year after the completion of the "Xiaoxi" system to supervise the work of all people.

The function of the social contribution system is not complicated. It will record every human being's contribution or damage to society, and then "Xiaoxi" will give or deduct contribution points.

The more points a person contributes, the more benefits they can get from their degree, and vice versa.

For example, if a person spends his whole life in school and does not participate in any social activities such as work, then someone with the same degree as him will receive more benefits than him.

If the contribution points are negative, people will have to accept a short period of compulsory labor to restore the contribution points to zero.

However, it is still difficult to make the contribution points negative, because only those who commit crimes or cause a large loss of wealth to civilization will have their contribution points deducted, and most people will have contributed to some extent.

For a normal person to have all his contribution points deducted at once, he probably would have to be deterred and failed like the original Cheng Xin.

On the contrary, there are many ways to contribute, and it is not limited to work or charity. Making reasonable suggestions for infrastructure projects at home, or inventing some handicrafts that are of little use can also be counted as contributions.

However, because the social contribution system has just been released, it naturally has a lot of flaws and shortcomings. Many people, especially AD people, like to take advantage of loopholes.

Therefore, the two major international political bodies have set up a large number of opinion collection websites. Such websites are open to all humans, including children. As long as the suggestions put forward are adopted, contribution points can be obtained.

Therefore, through brainstorming, the two countries are improving the social contribution system every day. This system is like a growing organism.

However, although "Xiao Xi" is the core of an academic research-oriented society and is responsible for running the social contribution system and economic data statistics system, it is naturally not a strong artificial intelligence with the ability to think.

Not to mention humanity's backward technology, even the Trisolarans, who are technologically prosperous, currently do not have the ability to create strong artificial intelligence.

Of course, "Xiao Xi" is not the whole of the new planned economic system. In fact, as an artificial intelligence, it is only responsible for rigid data statistics.

Those who are really responsible for making decisions and regulating are the grassroots officials, who number over 100 million, a large number of think tanks, and the decision-making levels of major political bodies.

They will use the information collected by "Xiao Xi" and private suggestions to regulate the economy at the macro level.

From a certain perspective, the existence of "Xiao Xi" has also made human civilization more united and unified, because "Xiao Xi" does not belong to any political body, but is a super artificial intelligence system shared by all mankind.

In fact, this modern economic system was not invented by Say or any new human being, but the "participatory economy" proposed by Albert and Hanel during the new Cold War.

Of course, the people responsible for improvement and modification are New Humanity and Say. They combined the advantages of market economy and planned economy to establish a new economic system.

In the following years, the development of the new planned economic system and the academic research-oriented society with "Xiao Xi" as the core began to get on the right track, and was no longer full of loopholes like in previous years.

Therefore, various countries began to accelerate the pace of reform, gradually popularizing Xiaoxi and academic research-based societies, and informed the Trisolarans of these changes through the Voice of Earth Civilization.

This has also caused many old humans in various aspects to gradually stop adapting to the new society. The reason is very simple. On the one hand, they cannot adapt to this new era without currency, referendums and frequent referendums.

On the other hand, old humans do not have the excellent memory of new humans, and are not used to installing too many bionic organs, so they cannot study for so many degrees in full-time universities for a long time.

Therefore, in academic research-based societies, they are often at the bottom and can only receive the basic social welfare guarantees that every citizen is entitled to.

Although this era is extremely materially rich, and the so-called basic social welfare security is no less than that of the ordinary upper class in the AD era, many old humans cannot adapt spiritually to this new era.

Therefore, many old humans who have survived by hibernating until now have begun to leave cities and establish autonomous regions. Anyway, even if they do not work, the basic social welfare security provided by the government is enough for these people to eat and drink.

What's more, the old humans still have some skills that the new humans can't do, which is to find a piece of farmland in the wild and cultivate it.

This is not because the new humans are lazier than the old humans. On the contrary, after the genes are edited, the new humans can work continuously for twenty or thirty hours without stress, and are much more efficient than the old humans.

However, with the popularization of artificial intelligence technology and gene editing, the physical fitness of new humans has undergone great changes.

To be precise, the new humans are suitable for mental work rather than highly repetitive physical work, so naturally they will not be able to farm.

This also gives old humans an opportunity, because in this era where everyone relies on bionic organs to digest genetically modified grass, organic agricultural products are a luxury product in the non-welfare system.

As the scale of the old human autonomous region grew larger in the era, the new human beings and the old human beings gradually began to be distinguished, and the old human beings gradually received a unified title, that is, AD people.

Although most of the modern old humans are people from the early Crisis Era rather than AD people, everyone is still used to calling them that because AD symbolizes the previous era.
Chapter completed!