Chapter 657 Sociology of Technology
March 5, Xinghe Year 11.
Saturn system - Titan.
This is one of the life planets under the Saturn Colonization Branch. The Homo Sapiens company, which has obtained the life metal technology, has reached an extremely high level in planetary transformation and construction.
For a planet like Titan, it only takes about half a year to complete the initial transformation.
However, Titan's gravity is not suitable for humans, so only a few synchronized robots are working here.
Li Qingye planned to come to the Saturn Colonization Branch for inspection, so it was naturally impossible for him to only inspect the Civilization Spark Research Base project.
This time he came to Saturn for a week-long investigation.
The first stop is Titan.
At this time, there is a huge artificial ring above the equator of Titan, and the pillars of the ring are inserted deep into the strata of Titan.
The material used to build the star ring was "borrowed" from the database of intelligent mechanical civilization. This material is similar to six-claw silicon steel, and its core components are silicon, aluminum, calcium, and iron. The material is called "Yongji Alloy."
The name Yongji Alloy comes from the intelligent machines, because this alloy is called "eternal basic material" by the intelligent machines.
Li Qingye appeared in the Star Ring spaceport with several assistants through a synchronized robot.
There are components made of Yongji alloy everywhere here. This material can be widely used in intelligent mechanical civilization and naturally has its advantages.
As the basic material for the interstellar age, it usually has to have several characteristics, namely, abundant raw materials, easy production and processing, and the ability to undergo a variety of secondary modifications.
Yongji alloy is obviously such a material.
This material is doped with 0.63% carbon and 0.041 molybdenum to become a high-temperature resistant alloy that can withstand 5038 degrees Celsius without melting.
Otherwise, the star ring pillars made of this material would not be able to penetrate tens of thousands of meters underground.
Coming down from the spaceport, he came to the ancient city on the surface of Titan.
The core work of the Ancient Layer is mining, and it also serves as a part-time scientific research base.
The local city manager Augustus introduced him: "Chairman, this is the nano-mining airship."
A huge airship was flying slowly in the orange sky.
This airship is actually the same model as the transport airship used by the Sapiens Company on Earth. However, even if it is the same model, the payload of this airship is several times that of the same model on Earth.
This is because the atmospheric density of Titan is about 1.5 times that of the Earth, and the gravity of Titan is similar to that of the moon. These two factors combined naturally increase the payload of the transport airship.
"Nano-mining? Does it involve the use of living metals?"
Augustus smiled and explained, "We put life metal into this part of the mining area, and then the mined minerals were turned into cubes, and finally transported to the Ancient City via transport airships for further processing."
Li Qingye was not too worried about the application of new technologies. After all, Sapiens Company was different from the free world.
In order to avoid the rapid obsolescence of production lines and the resulting loss of capital, the free world may deliberately not introduce new technologies and use them as technological reserves.
However, Sapiens has surpassed the capital operation stage of corporate development and entered a new stage of self-circulation.
As long as new technologies can improve productivity and development levels, the management of Sapiens will not refuse to innovate technology.
This is caused by the essential difference between the two.
Li Qingye watched a transport airship transporting a large amount of minerals to the deep processing factory in Henggu City. The mining efficiency was several orders of magnitude faster than before.
If mined at full capacity, it is estimated that in less than a decade, Titan's crust will be hollowed out and the underground magma layer will be exposed.
Li Qingye turned his head and looked at Augustus: "Titan's ecosystem must be maintained. After all, it is a planet with life and has great reference value."
Augustus quickly replied: "Chairman, the Saturn Colonization Branch has made relevant plans to ensure that mining activities will not seriously affect the primitive creatures of Titan."
"That's good."
Half an hour later, Li Qingye arrived at the Titan Star Biological Research Institute in the Ancient City.
There are various samples of Titan's primitive organisms. Currently, Titan's primitive organisms are all microorganisms, and there are no multicellular organisms.
This has a high reference value for studying the evolution of life on planets.
After all, there are many planets that can give birth to microorganisms, but there are very few planets that can evolve into more complex cellular organisms.
Currently, only Earth and Venus in the solar system have complex multicellular organisms. The multicellular organisms underground on the moon are relatively primitive, which is probably largely related to energy and resources.
Titan also has not evolved multicellular life, so it is equivalent to the early Earth.
Dr. Richard, who is in charge of the institute, saw Li Qingye coming in person and showed irrepressible excitement on his face: "Mr. Chairman, it's a pleasure to meet you."
Li Qingye shook hands with the other party: "Hello, Dr. Richard! Are you used to working with the synchronous robot?"
"It's not that bad, it's just easy to confuse the main body and the synchronized robot." Dr. Richard spread his hands helplessly.
Li Qingye deeply agrees with this point.
The synchronization experience of early synchronous robots was relatively poor, but there was no confusion between the main body and the synchronous robot.
But later, with the advancement of technology, the synchronous robot can no longer just transmit sound and images synchronously, but can also sense touch, smell, and taste synchronously. In addition, the head of the synchronous robot can 100% simulate the user's facial appearance and expression.
This has caused many people to confuse the main body and the synchronous robot during the long-term use of the synchronous robot.
Even if some signs are made to distinguish them, there is still no way to completely change the confusion.
In order to reduce related mental illnesses, the company has adopted strict get off work and rest schedules for employees who use synchronous robots to work, and has also extended vacation time.
Regular use of synchronized robots, combined with long vacations, can effectively curb mental illness.
The impact of a technology on is a sociological issue that must be studied clearly.
Many technologies are a double-edged sword.
For example, Internet technology is a typical double-edged sword, and the sociology of technology studies how to apply technology, reduce the side effects of technology, and increase the positive effects of technology.
Why has the human civilization been in chaos in various regions since entering the 21st century?
The reason is that the sociology of technology is not up to standard, and the side effects of technology in the application process have not been effectively curbed, and have even been magnified by forces and groups with ulterior motives.
In Li Qingye's view, the sociology of technology is as important as technology itself.
The consequence of applying technology without bottom line is the formation of a social atmosphere without bottom line, which will lead to the wrong path of civilization development.
