Super Dimension Technology Era

As an undergraduate who just graduated from university this year, Gao Zhongxuan now feels confused.

Can you not be confused?

Overnight, my brain was installed in a library and turned into a little superman who was invulnerable to all poisons and had super qualities. It felt like the more than ten years of learning that I had learned in vain was a waste of life.

The industrial robots and service robots being advertised on TV have begun to spread to various fields in the country.

For example, current sanitation work is supplemented by human labor and dominated by sanitation robots.

The degree of automation of many industrial product assembly lines is rapidly increasing. Some highly automated factories have achieved about 95% automated production.

So isn't the scale of citizens' jobs being compressed in disguise? This situation is actually happening, and it is the progress of the entire society.

However, the actual domestic unemployment rate is not too high and remains at around 6% [Note: The official data ranges from 4.5% to 4.7% year-round, but the actual rate should be 1% to 2% higher. ].

Why does this happen?

In fact, this is an important manifestation of the post-industrial era. Human beings are no longer engaged in mechanical labor, but are engaged in service industry, commerce, agriculture and creative industries.

If you look at the per capita disposable income of the people, the overall growth rate in the past two years is only about 2.6%, but the value of the Chinese dollar has increased by 267 to 284%.

This means that in 2013, 100 yuan could buy 30 kilograms of flour; in 2016, 100 yuan could buy 90 kilograms of flour.

This year, the exchange rate between the Chinese dollar and the US dollar once reached 2.6:1.

The crazy appreciation of the Huayuan seems to be detrimental to exports, but things are not that simple, because the internal factor of the appreciation of the Huayuan is the explosion of productivity based on controllable nuclear fusion.

This is a spontaneous appreciation to match productivity and monetary value, rather than an empty coercive appreciation.

And export products have not been affected, because the productivity explosion brought by nuclear fusion reactors has effectively reduced production costs.

It's just equivalent to foreign countries not reaping the dividends of technological upgrading, because the sharp rise in the value of the Chinese yuan means that the cost of buying foreign things has dropped, while domestic export products have reduced their prices to offset the appreciation.

To realize this currency appreciation model, the premise is that productivity really rises. Otherwise, like Japan, the competitiveness of its own industries will decrease due to currency appreciation, leading to a long-term economic downturn.

This year, China's GDP is expected to exceed 180 trillion yuan. Based on the current currency value of the Chinese dollar, it is equivalent to 65 trillion U.S. dollars, which is slightly more than three times the GDP of the United States.

Some people may think that this currency value is quite exaggerated, but if the populations of both parties are taken into account, China's per capita GDP is still slightly lower than that of the United States.

But China has the domestic foundation to support such a huge economic scale.

At present, the country's pillar industries include: virtual network, 6G communications, computer software, high-energy batteries, electric vehicles, semiconductors and electronic equipment, precision instruments, greenhouse three-dimensional agriculture, automated robots, household appliances, desalination, coal chemical industry, biomedicine, and The whole system of light and heavy industries.

There are also new infrastructure plans, large-scale aerospace plans, and large-scale recycling plans that are being promoted recently [Note: The large-scale recycling plan refers to the refined recycling of waste products, waste materials, waste water, and exhaust gas to achieve a garbage-free and waste-free society. ].

These products are collateral for the value of Huayuan currency.

Among them, coalified oil and coalified gas are energy sources. Anyway, 80% of the crude oil and gas in South Korea and Japan are already supplied by China.

In terms of agriculture, in the first three quarters of this year, the total domestic grain output reached an astonishing 570 million tons. Oil crops and animal oils, vegetables and fruits, poultry and livestock, eggs, milk, fish and meat are basically self-sufficient, and there is even a large export surplus.

This is the comprehensive improvement of society brought about by new technologies such as controllable nuclear fusion, seawater desalination, and new material technology.

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Gao Zhongxuan's hometown is in the Great Wall Wind Beach area in the north of Qin Province. He originally planned to work in Lingnan to make money, and then bring his parents and family to live in the coastal area.

Now he hesitates, because with the water pipeline reaching the northern Loess Plateau, coupled with rural cooperatives and low-price electricity.

The farmland and pastures in Fengshatan are developing very fast. After seeing the pictures and videos of his hometown sent by his sister, Gao Zhongxuan doesn't think there is anything good about being in a big city.

The emergence of virtual networks has further broken spatial and geographical restrictions; the cheap energy of controllable nuclear fusion has further balanced regional development gaps; biological computers have impacted the imbalance of knowledge and education.

When rural areas in the northwest can have the environment of Jiangnan water towns, and when work and education can be completed while sitting at home, the advantages of big cities have disappeared.

Counter-urbanization in the post-industrial era has been overwhelming.

He quickly packed his luggage and prepared to go back to his hometown.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw the landlord discussing something with two tenants in the corridor not far away.

He listened for a few minutes and found out that the landlord was planning to sell the house, but the two tenants had no intention of taking over.

"How about 30,000 per square meter? I'll pay the transfer fee."

"Old Zhang, we have been dealing with each other for two or three years, 30,000 per square meter? Do you still think it is 8002?"

"Ha ha……"

"But……"

Gao Zhongxuan also smiled bitterly and shook his head. During his four years at Yangcheng University, he had witnessed history.

Since 2014, house prices in the Pearl River Delta have begun to experience slight negative growth. As of this year, no one wants to buy a house near the university town worth 30,000 yuan per square meter.

Firstly, it was impacted by rural cooperatives and Huanong Group employee housing; secondly, western and backward areas were catching up; thirdly, biological computers directly killed school district housing.

Who is willing to buy a house in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen at a high price now?

There has even been a wave of mortgage repayment cuts. Even banks and real estate companies have been forced to breathe and can only continue to lower the repayment amounts based on house prices.

That's why there are many apartment owners who have a lot of houses in their hands and have to ask someone to take over the house, but there are only very few people who are willing to take over.

Gao Zhongxuan quickly agreed with the landlord about checking out tomorrow, then settled the deposit and returned to the rental house.

After graduating from college this year, he joined a product design company. Gao Zhongxuan himself is still a registered intermediate programmer.

When I talked to the company supervisor about returning to my hometown, the company did not stop me. As long as the tasks were completed on time and with high quality, the company would not bother to care whether you live in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, or on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

This is a characteristic of the virtual network era. A company may not even have an office location in reality, but there is a virtual office building in Nanke Mengjie, and its employees are all over the world.

The more deeply an industry integrates with the virtual world, the higher the degree of virtual office.

The next day, Gao Zhongxuan went to the high-speed rail station and prepared to take the high-speed rail back to Qin Province.

The half-human-height barrel-shaped cleaning robot accurately avoids the flow of people and cleans dust and garbage in high-speed rail stations.

Gao Zhongxuan’s biggest feeling is that the quality of passengers has improved. Many people consciously queue up and do not spit or throw garbage cigarette butts. This is related to the increase in the number of new people.

In addition, there is the application of new technologies. Security personnel are wearing exoskeletons, as well as advanced and harmless neutrino atomic imaging scanners, genetic identification technology, etc.

If you live abroad for a long time, as soon as you enter the country, the science fiction style will come to you, as if a low-level civilization has entered a high-level civilization.

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