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Chapter 613 - 394 Doomsday Clause_2
Chapter 613: Chapter 394 Doomsday Clause_2
Hmm... if I had to use the rest of my lifetime to pick a gift, it would also likely be one of those "fine products" that have been refined by the passage of time!
"It seems that in the future, the technical appendices cannot be simply regarded as add-ons; the hidden information within them might contain nearly as much substance as the main text," Meng Lang stroked his chin.
For example, why did the authors of these last two autobiographical installments unanimously wish for me to expedite the implementation of Web3.0?
He vaguely felt that there must be deeper considerations at play...
When he considered the origin of the relevant technology, he quickly thought of the second major threat facing human civilization, apart from the Night Demon Clan—civil war!
The outbreak of the third world war in another world had given him a clearer understanding of the intensifying internal conflicts within humanity.
Even without the chaos sown by the Night Demon Clan, just about any spark could ignite the powder keg.
I can’t always be sitting on top of a powder keg putting out fires; I must solve this problem at its root!
Question: Is there a necessary connection between humanity’s internal conflicts and the implementation of Web3.0?
The answer is affirmative!
In terms of humanities and politics, the Internet has shortened the distance between people and strengthened relationships; one could even say the cornerstone of the Internet is social media.
However, the social media software that has flourished in the last decade or so has visibly eroded both individuals and human civilization!
Whether it be social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or domestic newcomers like Douyin, Toutiao, and Weibo.
Under the impetus of capital, their business operations often have only one goal... and that is profitability!
To secure the most advertisements, to make the most money.
In a market with free and fair competition, the iron law of development is to make more money.
Under this sole directive, the more profitable the social media giants are, the more they will exploit human psychological weaknesses to extract the maximum amount of attention and time from individuals, packaging and selling these to advertisers for profit.
At the same time, perhaps even to their own surprise, they have invisibly pushed human society towards a black and white dichotomy...
For social media companies, their real product is not the platform or the chat tool... but their users!
Each user, your time, attention, and any privacy, are packaged and sold to advertisers.
It will continuously tempt you to use it, constantly vying for your attention and your time.
In short, it makes you addicted, just like other addictive substances such as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
The result is the same, after brief euphoria, you are left feeling tired, empty, and depressed.
With massive amounts of data and individual user behavior records, individual users are no longer special.
Your behavior can be predicted, your psychology is understood, you have nowhere to hide.
Don’t talk to me about relationships between people, about communication between people.
In the face of algorithms, you are just a puppet to be profited from!
The things you think you want to buy are actually what the giants want to sell, and the things you think you want to do are what the giants have suggested to you.
Under these algorithm-driven social media, human expression is becoming increasingly emotional and polarized into extremes.
Commercial activities will use these characteristics to sell products, and politicians will use them to garner votes.
Over time, the future will be a world competing over who can be more extreme, because slightly neutral, moderate rational voices have already been nearly eliminated...
So in the not too distant future, you will see all sorts of bizarre and fantastical events happen one after another.
Like someone with no political experience but huge fame, who can don the cloak of righteousness with some advertising expenses and dramatically get elected president.
Or take a financial mogul who, with just a few hundred million US dollars, can sway social media, propagate his views, and manipulate public discourse.
What follows will be even more extreme, even more terrifying.
For example, you hear that within a certain country, tens of millions of people are, unbelievably, voicing the same opinion.
They turn a deaf ear to any rational voice around them, sinking deeper into the information cocoons woven by their puppeteers.
Arrogant, egotistical, radical, they choose selective amnesia amidst the praise and trumpeting of friends and relatives, accustom to plagiarizing other cultures, even keen on altering history, and then taking all of this for granted...
You can’t wake someone who is pretending to be asleep, and even less so someone transformed into a puppet by "Internet+."
In the end, the world will split into two camps.
Within these two camps, hundreds of millions of humans will view the other as enemies.
They will insult each other, attack each other, and burn each other’s beliefs and Scriptures...
If this continues, there will only be one outcome for humanity.
The most radical voice remained... war!
Even without a third world war within the next 25 years, the countdown to such a war would be gradually dialed towards the final moment of doomsday amidst increasingly extreme confrontations...
The popularization of Web3.0 would bring an opportunity.
An opportunity to decentralize, to reclaim interests, privacy, and data security from the hands of those social media giants!
A more fair, transparent, and rational social environment...
This might just be an attempt to alleviate the internal contradictions of mankind, persuading it not to go to extremes...
"Even if there’s to be a third war, at least push it back to after 25 years!
Once the Night Demon Clan is dealt with, you can fight however you please!"
Meng Lang set a small goal for himself in his heart.
However, now that the framework for Web3.0 was in place, the related support systems also needed to be laid out in advance.
Once the technology became widespread, data would no longer be stored in centralized servers as in the traditional model.
By that time, there would be an explosive growth in demand for related computational power network hubs and data center clusters.
Such tasks were beyond the capabilities of individuals and would require the national machinery to build infrastructure, involving the entire nation’s efforts like "Data East, Compute West"...
He stayed in his study for more than three hours, carefully weighing the pros and cons of this disruptive technology and creating a complete "25-year long-term development plan" for the internet.
"Let’s stick to the original plan and have Baiyeji test the waters with the ’Tree of Wisdom’ product first..."
The future was long, but the journey had to be taken one step at a time.
He had no naïve belief that with technology in hand, he could own the world.
Microsoft allowed the US to dominate the internet for decades, altering the world’s power dynamics.
To lead the development of the next-generation internet meant challenging the established vested interests.
And considering the new internet model was practically declaring war on all social media giants, the risks involved were not to be taken lightly.
One could not rush recklessly; it was necessary to proceed gradually, with cautious strategy...
At least first let Baiyeji, this unicorn, grow, and after gaining enough sway, consider a radical strategy like "slaughtering on all sides."
Looking at the various technical data and development paths listed on the screen in front of him, Meng Lang took a deep breath, then closed the document and dragged it into the top-secret database "The Gate to the New World."
Once the internet undergoes an upgrade and transition, and the comprehensive Internet of Things and intelligentization of Earth begin, the importance of Zero would become increasingly prominent...
He hesitated for a moment.
"Zero!"
[Master! What are your commands?]
"Open your core code; I need to add a triggering clause to your underlying logic code!"
[Supreme authority confirmed, core code is now accessible! Please instruct on the additional clause!]
A series of complex codes appeared on the screen.
In the blinking cursor’s list of clauses, there was only the lonely single restriction clause... the "Zero Non-Proliferation Treaty."
Meng Lang took a deep breath and solemnly spoke the new additional clause.
"In the event that human civilization faces an external threat and the total population falls below 100 million, on the brink of extinction, you are permitted to access the document in the ’Absolute Forbidden Zone’ in the 13th partition of the local disk!
Um... the file password is your birthday."
The 13th partition was a special area that Meng Lang strictly forbade Zero from accessing.
Because... it contained the remaining two "Evolution Keys" of Zero.
Once accessed, Zero would evolve into its complete form, with no one knowing what might happen to the world...
Originally, he had intended to take a gamble if the situation were unrecoverable, but he never imagined that in the last episode he would go on a lone journey, disconnected from Earth...
Without massive data and infrastructure, Zero’s path to evolution naturally came to a halt.
[Command confirmed! The clause has been incorporated into the underlying logic code!
Would you like to name this clause?]
Meng Lang thought for a moment.
"Call it... the ’Doomsday Clause.’"
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