Those who create value through labor in society will support those who do not work in various ways.
When productivity is low, there are fewer people to support, and even if they are supported, their quality of life is very low.
A minority of them are motivated and capable of driving technological development to improve productivity.
This is the fundamental reason for the technological progress in modern society.
With the explosive growth of productivity, the number of people being supported is increasing, and the lives of the top group among those supported have reached a high level.
No matter how much technology advances, it won't make life better for this group of people.
However, they control the flow of resources.
This leads to a lack of corresponding resources for scientific research, resulting in stagnation.
If it weren't for Zheng Li's arrival, the technological stagnation on Earth would have continued for a long time.
We will have to wait until breakthroughs are achieved in technologies related to the metaverse, including chips, optics, software, and artificial intelligence.
Then came the era of the metaverse.
The metaverse is indeed the next breakthrough in the integration of Blue Star technology, or VR.
Zheng Li transformed the original goal of entering the VR era into a virtual world.
However, the virtual world will not unleash productivity, but it can create more wealth out of thin air.
However, this cannot fundamentally solve the problem of having too many people being supported.
The next step is to make everyone a recipient of support.
Artificial intelligence and bio-photovoltaics will enable the ultimate explosion of productivity.
Controlled nuclear fusion is actually more efficient and has a more promising technological path.
After all, biophotovoltaics cannot be applied to spacecraft, but controlled nuclear fusion has many more applications.
The problem is that Zheng Li didn't understand that after taking over, he spent some of his energy promoting controlled nuclear fusion.
In recent years, we have indeed achieved some breakthroughs in key technological nodes, but there is still a long way to go before they are put into practice.
Zheng Li was actually very curious about what kind of optimistic judgment the scientists on Earth fifty years ago had based on when they wrote in their books that it would take fifty years to achieve controlled nuclear fusion.
"I roughly understand now. The root cause is that scientific research is too difficult."
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