Overturned Tower

-free.

The "freedom" that many people have struggled for all their lives in Happy Island, but it is so easy to obtain in Sogo Island-

In Happy Island, when a child just starts to read... even before they learn to read, when they watch cartoons or early education programs with brain screens, they will be overwhelmed by advertisements purchased by major manufacturers.

Advertisements specially used to broadcast to young children are several times more expensive than ordinary advertisements. After all, being able to subtly implant brand awareness in a state of ignorance to young children may have a better effect than playing ten advertisements to adults.

Before these children go to school, their preferences, spending power, and home addresses will be sold to major advertisers. From birth to death, they will be watched by endless eyes, completely overwhelmed by endless advertisements, and completely incapable of rejecting these voyeurs.

Maybe when she has nothing to do to watch entertainment videos, because her eyes stay on the young lady’s clothes for a few seconds longer in the video, a pop-up window immediately pops up a recommendation of the same style of “guess what you want”, and even directly pulls a A pile of time-limited coupons; while he may be playing games, he may accidentally spend too much krypton and run out of deposits, and a loan software recommendation with "zero interest rate for the first 30 days" will appear immediately...

As long as the price is right, all human privacy can be bought—Russell and his colleagues in the Delphinium Cyber ​​Security Department have no shortage of insiders who steal their own hands and steal women. Even Delphinium, the head of the special executive department, has to apply for permission to obtain personal data, but someone will secretly trade them directly to the paying boss. You don't even have to go to the network security department of Tianen Group to buy it.... Just invite a psychic hacker of similar level to directly hack into the other party's chip, and directly steal the other party's chat history, friend email address, credit card, etc. Point balance and other information, not to mention those private photos and documents placed in the "encrypted folder".

The biggest use of throwing an "encrypted folder" in the personal space is to save the thief's time to the greatest extent when their chip is stolen, so that these psychic hackers will not become angry because they can't find what they want. Just mess up their stuff.

For example, secretly changing the notes of the other party’s friends, or manipulating the other party to donate their deposits to the Cyber ​​Church—the flow of credit points can be 100% traced, so it is difficult to make profits in this way. But if you just want to make the other party lose money, you can use the other party's name to donate.

As we all know, donations to the Cyber ​​Church must never be returned...otherwise this will become an effective and stable means of hiding assets.

Even memory and soul will be searched regularly every month - the unique technology of Happy Island is memory review, memory rewriting and memory erasure technology. The review of "happiness" is also derived from this...

As long as you give up thinking and live comfortably, you will be very happy in Happy Island.

Because the Tianen Group will definitely keep them alive... As long as the residents of Happy Island are happy enough, they don't need to worry about unemployment, let alone worry about not being able to support themselves. Although they work a little longer, their income can actually support themselves and their families stably.

Moreover, the large number of high-quality entertainment works provided by Happy Island can also effectively improve their "happiness"-the endless excellent games, endless interesting variety shows and language programs are just basic. More than a dozen excellent movies are screened every week, more than 200 TV dramas and animations are covered at all times every day, more than 40 kinds of competitive games, various entertainment venues, and food culture second only to Taoyuan Island. .... have truly realized the full coverage of residents' hobbies.

If you are looking for more thrills, you can also buy dangerous drugs, kidnapped living people, or transcendental films that are so exciting that they violate taboos from downtown. In Happy Island, only the "sellers" will be held accountable for this kind of business, while the buyers are innocent... At most, they will only be warned by the company they belong to. Because they are just pursuing "happiness".

In order to maintain one's own happiness, this is also "helpless".

As long as people are willing to give up thinking and stop fighting against the corporate

If you rule, you can truly obtain "happiness". Instead, they cannot escape the company's surveillance and control throughout their lives.

And all this.....in Sogo Island it's almost the exact opposite.

Residents of Sogo Island exhaust their brains, keep learning and self-improvement, just to be able to get a job that is as stable as possible. That is something that can be obtained easily without any worries in Happy Island, even if you don't go to school.

Either they have to try their best to be stable in the Sogo Group... do everything to get the top 60% of the test scores, and stay as long as possible;

Either rely on the experience and skills learned from Sogo Group to start their own business after being eliminated, or be invited to join other companies. They may also be able to enjoy it for a while, but the constantly iterative technology of the Sogo Group will change the entire market sooner or later. At that time, "unemployment" will become a terrifying wave of reality, destroying the sand castles they have piled up in an instant.

Their lives will be destroyed in an instant, and then they will fall into the fear of "unemployment" again. "...Is it so hard to find a job on Sogo Island?"

Delphinium couldn't help asking.

"Yeah," Russell sighed, "it's really hard to find.

"Artificial intelligence has replaced most of the repetitive work..... On Sogo Island, there are no taxis, no logistics personnel, no couriers, and no truck drivers running around on Happy Island every day. There are no No servants, no driver for travel. All these services are "unmanned".....free.

"There are no security guards in the community, and there are no security personnel in the bank. There are no people in the various service windows, only a cold robot—not even a robot, just a panel. More businesses are directly networked, no need Instead of going to a service window, you can easily do it at home.

"Restaurants don't need to hire waiters, because their own machine servants can directly become the best waiters by asking someone to swipe their mobile phones. The price of machine servants is so cheap that even college students who have not graduated can have them. People have even used their own machine servants Achieving symbiosis...."

Russell sneered: "Even Miss Street has a more obedient and cleaner servitor to replace it. Modifying the appearance of your own servitor or modifying your avatar, the money you need is the price of a synthetic steak.

"People who don't have jobs, they don't have jobs. They don't get anything - because they're worthless.

"Those jobs that can be replaced are replaced by cheap artificial intelligence; those fields that artificial intelligence has not set foot in for the time being have been involved to an outrageous level, and the entry threshold is unbelievably high. Those who were originally abandoned because of lack of ability How can a person compare to an old man who is proficient in this way and has been deeply involved in this industry for an unknown number of years?

"It's like Happy Island being downgraded by 'work' because of insufficient happiness." In Sogo Island, once you become a loser, you will be eliminated.

"If their original status is high enough, there will be some more "elimination space"... It's like a few more lives.

"But it can basically be said that most people will be eliminated. They can survive because of the stable monthly payment from Sogo Island.

"They don't have to worry about food and clothing, and they don't have to worry about starving to death. But what they lose is "hope." "

"...But," Delphinium frowned, "then there should be a more developed entertainment industry here than Happy Island?"

"That's because entertainment here is regarded as a taboo, a shame, and a poison. Because the best talents at the top of the pyramid don't have the time and leisure to do this...so they can't Promote your own "entertainment", and it will be regarded as "the mark of a loser". "

"But since so many people are unemployed, this should be just needed."

"Yes, so the various entertainment chips that flow from Happy Island can fetch quite a high price here. In most cases, the ones that are traded in the black market are those that are filled with viruses. Pirated chips. The rarest thing in Sogo Island is the creator of the content...Although people need entertainment, but

There aren't enough good people who want to be in the entertainment business.

"—Because here, money is not important anymore.

"After the vast majority of services have become free, and the most basic necessities of life can be guaranteed; when the road to power climbs to the highest point and can't get power, people who are a little pursuing and not yet rotten, The pursuit has become "name". Or, "social status—that is, people's respect.

"The Three Wise Ones did not forbid the growth of the entertainment industry, yet there was a spontaneous disdain for it—or, as I prefer to call it, fear. A sense of what the future might look like, yet still trying to prevent that eventual , The inevitable future arrives...【Destined Fear】."

Many people have given up on this endless pursuit and just want to live in peace and comfort.

But the idealists in the middle who have fallen behind, but are still chasing the large troops farther and farther ahead with their noses and tears, have realized the possibility of the future. They are willing to do everything to show their value, but they are not willing to let the abandoned people live in peace and comfort - because that is the warm water used to cook frogs, which will completely destroy the possibility that there may only be one in ten thousand .

Just listening to it, Delphinium felt a very strong sense of contradiction: the harmony between man and machine, continuous progress, and a fair and equal society brought hope and light, while the wall of "talent" and the extreme "efficiency", "De-waste" makes more people lose the value of existence.

Here, directors no longer have supreme power, and everything is controlled by cold and impartial artificial intelligence.

It is an intelligent system that is far more accurate and understands human nature than the big data analysis of Happy Island. But it is not used to continuously push various advertisements to people's faces, but to maintain the orderly operation of the city.

People are no longer so absurd and depraved, but become ignorant and pious.

Most people have the idea of ​​being considerate of others, and struggle painfully on the ideal road that they can never catch up with...

Obviously no one persecutes them, and no one restrains them, but because of the conflict between the "meaning of existence" they long for and their "moral conscience", they are tossing and suffering in the frying pan of hell.

This is, yearning for the light and respecting the light... Sogo Island? Hope and despair are closely intertwined because of people's pursuit of goodness and beauty.

"Therefore, in Sogo Island... the industries that ordinary people are engaged in, most of them are voluntary labor without wages.

"It does not involve benefits, so there is no artificial intelligence to make it "free" and reduce the cost of living'. Labor itself becomes something to be fought for...and yet it seems so hypocritical.

"Because they were able to work and be able to show their own value, it was only because the three sages did not make a move.

"If the Magi really wanted to replace this industry, there were countless ways they could replace it with artificial intelligence at the highest level of optimization. They didn't do it, they just didn't want to do it for a while.

"Human labor is worthless and meaningless. Only the best brains in society can barely keep up with the progress of artificial intelligence whose computing power is not so high. Most of the Labor, compared with these intelligent machines, seems so clumsy, wasteful and inefficient. The three sages treat human beings like loving mothers and fathers, just like parents watching their children clumsily stir fry. Serving delicious dishes and eating them with relish.”

Russell sighed: "I will leave Sogo Island not only because of Alice's last words." It is also because... here is full of light, but only lacks hope.

"Did you know that the population of Sogo Island is decreasing year by year. Because those 'useless people' are empty and free, but they don't choose to have offspring because of it... It's not how much pressure it is to raise children, but they Give up the hope of "'let the children come back'.

"They realize that their talents are limited. Adhering to the attitude of being responsible for their children, they choose to cut off their genetic inheritance.

... I think that even in seven

Among the empty islands, Chongguang Island can definitely be called the "best" one.

"Everyone for one, one for everyone. There is no oppression and exploitation from directors, no pressure to survive and endless advertisements and fraud. People live in the light equally, serve various gods in their hearts, and abide by the Be courteous and respectful of others.

"There are no desperadoes in the lower city of Happiness Island to randomly take people's lives, nor is it like Sun Island, where human rights are divided into different levels, unlike Tongshen Island and Taoyuan Island, which lack living space, and civilians can't even get sun exposure. The sun. It is not like Sacred Blood Island and Yongquan Island, where human life will be turned into consumables and a number on the company's files.

"The three sages are fair and just...they do follow the principles of 'truth', 'goodness', and 'beauty'" to benefit the greatest number of people, Reduce life stress. The essence of the entire empty island is used to develop the most advanced technology... The reason why people are desperate is because they are rational and smart enough, and because there are seeds of light in their hearts.

...However, there is no room for ordinary people to "glow" here. "That's because they really have no value."

Faced with Russell's whispers, Beauty God just made a gentle voice: "People who sit on a vegetarian diet will only reduce the overall operating efficiency of the large system of society, which will eventually lead to a waste of resources and a waste of everyone's time. Those worthless repetitions The **** industry is going to die, and we've just accelerated the process, just as every change of tools ~www.wuxiahere.com~ in the past has resulted in increased productivity, drastic reductions in workload, and job losses.

"Everything is for efficiency—although the "wish" of ordinary people who want to show themselves cannot be realized, everyone's life is constantly improving, all technologies are constantly iterating, life pressure is constantly reducing, and the cost of living is constantly increasing. Optimization. In the end, the entire society will become infinitely more efficient...the eliminated will also get enough resources.

"We believe that this kind of pain is just a kind of psychology called [hypocrisy]. Just like wrong codes should be corrected, traits that are not conducive to survival will cause individuals to be eliminated...It's just that human technology is too advanced , The group is too gentle and united, so that even the disability, disaster, and disease cannot eliminate the individuals who should be eliminated. Therefore, when too many "weak people" accumulate in the social group, and when the society develops to the point where everyone has When they found a platform to show their abilities, their truth as "eliminated ones" was finally exposed...

"To put it simply, the development of science and technology has greatly reduced the death rate of human beings, so that the "reserve" of human beings is too much. It is far more than the amount that is really "needed" to maintain a group. Therefore, after society becomes efficient, A lot of resources have been freed up. That's all. "

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