Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 282 - Chapter 282 Chapter 282 Cracking the Universal Factory

Chapter 282: Chapter 282: Cracking the Universal Factory Chapter 282: Chapter 282: Cracking the Universal Factory The group of middle school students had been fervently discussing in front of “Kunlun Mountain” for half an hour, until the next batch of visitors came and they reluctantly left the models. Li Cha discovered some new and fascinating items in the technology exhibition hall.

The famous Unreal Laboratory had actually developed an advanced Brain Wave Display Device!

As long as you imagine in your mind, this device could transfer relatively simple thoughts onto the screen, don’t underestimate this point, once mastered well enough, it could largely replace traditional mouse and keyboard.

“I’ll try it first!”

Li Cha, excited, put on the helmet and began to let his thoughts wander.

“hello world !”

Indeed, the screen displayed the series of text “hello world !” without a single letter missing.

He then imagined something more complex and some odd images appeared on the screen, faintly resembling the trace of a spaceship.

However, due to his scattered concentration, most of the images were blurred, with vast patches of mosaic.

“This device requires very focused attention. Otherwise, if your mind wanders too much, it’s very easy to corrupt the image. I suggest you start by imagining something simple like an egg, or a chalkboard…” explained a staff member nearby.

“It’s my turn!”

The students were having great fun with this high-tech product, and soon, eggs and blackboards appeared one after another on the screen.

“After professional training, you could even construct a real spaceship. The efficiency is about more than 10 times higher than drawing on a traditional computer!”

“Thank you for your explanation.”

The only difference between this kind of personified robots and humans was the color of their pupils. Robots possessed their own jobs as well as almost the same protection rights as humans. If desired, a human could even apply to date a robot, although, of course, the romantic partner was limited to just one. If someone had poor morals or was a habitual cheater, relevant organizations would not approve.

Then, Li Cha saw another truly high-tech product near this device…

A holographic puppy constructed from a holographic image!

Standing in front of this holographic image was none other than Professor Yamamoto Ichiro.

It was cheerfully begging for food, while humans could feed it through the computer screen.

“Don’t feed it too much! The puppy will get too full…” After a while, Yamamoto began to prevent the onlookers from feeding it.

Sure enough, the husky seemed full and lazily lay down on the ground to rest, looking utterly contented.

Li Cha asked curiously, “Professor Yamamoto, haven’t we already achieved artificial intelligence pets like this? What’s special about this technology?”

Yamamoto just smiled and didn’t answer.

But don’t underestimate this point, this husky wasn’t just a biological simulation by the computer, it was a genuine living being!

A Digital Life after a Consciousness Upload!

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Thus, 12 days after the departure of “Earth Era,” at the end of a long holiday, the whole New Civilization convened a top-level meeting to discuss the next steps of their strategy.

In the conference, Zhao Qingfeng spoke, “Ladies and gentlemen, our entire Civilization has completed its first intermediate goal, thanks to everyone’s hard work over the years.”

“The Earth Era spaceship has officially set off, and according to the Glizerians’ report, its current operational status is stable. This large-scale project has trained a large number of talents for us, as well as the corresponding infrastructure. However, this is not the time to slacken. Humans are such creatures that once they start slacking, it becomes very difficult to regain diligence.”

“As for the direction of our future development, what views do you all have?”

A person with no forethought will surely have immediate worries; the same goes for a Civilization, which must have short-term, medium-term, and long-term development goals to work towards. After a rest, we must continue to work.

This has always been a good practice of the New Civilization.

Zhang Yuan gathered his thoughts and stood up to speak, “Our long-term goal goes without saying; naturally, it is the Wander Plan. There’s no need for us to settle here permanently. Going out to encounter the wider world and touch the various Civilizations is our long-term goal.”

Since the Earth Era spaceship had just set off, everyone had very high spirits. When the “Wander Plan” was mentioned, everybody was eager and excited, rubbing their hands together in anticipation.

“Interstellar travel will keep our work enthusiasm vigorous; contact with more Civilizations will promote Technology Exchange and improve the study of New Civilization History.”

“But there is still a very long distance from this long-term goal, whether it’s the new generation of Mother Ships, military, virtual reality technology, industrial capacity, population, there’s significant room for improvement.”

Yes, the New Civilization’s second interstellar voyage would not be hasty like the first one.

The second deep-space voyage was explicitly intended to make contact with Aliens, whether they were powerful Civilizations or weaker ones; Humans need to have a certain self-preservation capability.

Zhang Yuan sent a series of documents to the central screen, “Then let’s talk about the short-term goals. In this trade, we acquired a Universal Factory belonging to a Second-level Cosmic Civilization… or it might be technology from a Third-level Civilization; at least, it’s of the peak of Second-level Civilization.”

“This Universal Factory is a machine that manufactures machines, which can greatly expand our industrial capacity. It’s estimated that within 2 years, our cutting-edge industrial capacity will rise by 127%; that’s not a small number.”

As soon as this statement was made, a buzz of conversation arose in the meeting room.

A Universal Factory could more than double the industrial standard of Humans! This not only showed the power of the Universal Factory but also indicated that Humans were still a long way from a Second-level Civilization.

Zhang Yuan cleared his throat, quieted the noisy crowd, “Of course, we are just utilizing its productive power and will not be led by this machine as the Glizerians were.”

“Our team took a cursory look at some technologies in the database; the technical level itself is quite good. However, some industrial standards… let’s just say, have little room for upward scaling.”

“Mr. Zhang Yuan, what do you mean by ‘space for upward scaling’?”

Not all members present were industrial professionals and did not fully understand this term. So to simplify, Zhang Yuan gave a simple example, “The 4G communication technology of Earth Civilization in the 21st century actually had many different design standards, divided into two major categories: one is the LTE technology based on 3GPP, and the other is the IEEE802.16m-based technology.”

“And these two categories have various branches. Not to mention ten or eight, there are at least six or seven different design standards.”

“5G communication technology, on the other hand, is an upgrade of 4G and will not exist independently. It’s a combination of multiple technologies including 2G, 3G, LTE, LTE-A, Wi-Fi, M2M, and so on.”

“When building 5G, we wish to utilize the existing infrastructure to the maximum extent and upgrade it with the smallest economic cost. Without the previous technological standards, it would be difficult to leap directly to building true 5G.”

This explanation was very easy to understand, and practically everyone got it.

“But if we follow the haphazard industrial standards in the database of the Universal Factory, where various settings are as mixed up as a tangle of noodles, crisscrossing each other, with even some contradictions, there will be very little room for upward scaling.”

“If we want to upgrade, we would have to discard a large amount of infrastructure and start from scratch.”

This is, in fact, a very hidden pitfall, but the Gleize Civilization, being in the midst of it, could hardly comprehend it!

They could only think they were too foolish, feeling unable to grasp these technologies, or that the cost of technological upgrading was too prohibitive, and simply decided not to upgrade.

This fact could almost certainly confirm that the second wave of arriving interstellar civilizations harbored a great deal of malice!