Wasteland Development Diary

The robot dog first reported the latest situation of the two satellites in the hospital.

"Chairman, Dongfanghong-1 is basically ready to be discharged from the hospital. However, according to the procedure, Dean Da Vinci requires it to be observed in a special ward for three more days. Its model is too old. Although the United City has done a very careful repair, the possibility of complications cannot be ruled out."

"Beiyou-1 is a different situation. I have already performed program isolation on it, manually partitioned the internal storage, isolated the data electors in a separate area, and temporarily blocked it."

"Then I reinstalled the time anchor. This time it looks normal, but it still needs follow-up observation to see if it will repeatedly fall into a semi-enlightened state. I also told Beiyou-1 not to use the programs and data in the isolated area. I will negotiate with it on how to deal with this part of the data electors in the next step."

The basic problems of the two satellites have been solved.

Next, 703 led the way to the overpass outside Emerald City.

There are two unfamiliar electromechanical lives here.

"Chairman, these are the two electromechanical Knight companions I introduced in the Energy Storage City."

"Gustave, Sanoje."

The robot dog said, "They left the Energy Storage City with me before and entered different cities to find like-minded people. I arrived at the company first, and then they came to join me."

Zhou Yi first noticed Gustave.

Its appearance is eye-catching, and its reputation was not small in the era of old humans.

This is a real luxury car, a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Its宝 blue shell is stained with a little dust, but the overall maintenance is excellent. There are no scratches or scratches, and it can be seen that it was waxed not long ago.

703 said that Gustave is a veritable electromechanical rich man, and it is normal to pay attention to maintenance.

"I have long admired your name, Mr. Zhou."

The brightness of Gustave's two headlights increased a lot, and the sound was clear and bright, with a very good texture.

"I am Gustave. I used to be a senior consultant in the program department of Energy Storage City. I have now resigned from there and am a freelancer."

"Hello, Gustave."

Zhou Yi was very interested in it.

This was the first time he had officially come into contact with the wealthy class of electromechanical life.

The other party was very talkative: "I heard that Wasteland Development Company implements a five-day work week with two days off? Your company is even more radical than Sunday."

"That's right."

"The reduction in production efficiency also has an impact on the company, right?"

Zhou Yi told it: "If you pursue short-term benefits, reducing working hours will indeed reduce output. However, Wasteland Development Company is committed to long-term development, and the health and quality of life of employees are of higher value."

"From a profit perspective, reducing working hours each year allows employees to get more personal space from rest, making the company more attractive to them and allowing them to work in the company for a longer and more stable period of time."

"In addition, the company's existing experience proves that having stable holidays can improve the work enthusiasm of employees. They can gradually transform from only considering working hours to spontaneously thinking and learning in order to pursue creative results with higher added value."

"Emerald Soup, Flame Cup, and the desperate machines used in our dam are all results of this environment."

Rolls-Royce paused for a moment and said: "Your company currently has too few samples and is not enough to determine whether there is a necessary connection between holidays and benefits."

"Indeed."

Zhou Yi also admitted: "Actually, there are also personal preferences. I personally hate working overtime, so I hope that everyone in the company can also reduce overtime. Working hard is to better enjoy life, and holidays are for doing this."

Gustave immediately made a studio-recorded laugh: "Mr. Zhou is really an interesting person. I also agree with you on the point of personal preference."

Zhou Yi also raised his own question: "What is the workflow of the program department? Is everyone doing program review or voting?"

"The program department is the highest decision-making body in the electromechanical city, but the work inside is actually boring and has no technical content."

The electromechanical rich man introduced: "The program department refines various fields of the city, such as food, safety, energy, investment, people's livelihood, etc. Each refined field has a team or group, and the decision is sent to the next link. All industries are interconnected, so each group will vote repeatedly, but the weights are different."

"Everyone makes decisions through anonymous voting, and you can choose to use your real name or anonymously when proposing a motion. However, anonymity has now become mainstream, which can protect each member from criticism and pressure."

"The program department is like a black box. Every time a decision is made, no one knows what the final result will be."

"The advantage of this is that everyone does not have to bear responsibility and can maintain the order of the city more easily."

"Because the decision is made by the program department, not a specific electromechanical life. Even if it causes disasters and losses, it is the city's own decision that went wrong, you know what I mean, right?"

Zhou Yi said: "Understood."

Gustave continued: "But this also creates a problem, that is, if everyone really wants to do something, it will be very difficult."

"According to the decision-making mechanism of the program department, even senior members of the program department are powerless most of the time."

"For example, you propose a motion to repair the road. Such a small matter, even if there is sufficient funding, is likely to be rejected. Because other field groups will consider whether this will indirectly affect their progress, and road repairs will bring uncertainty... In short, when faced with whether to change, everyone tends to choose to remain unchanged."

After listening, Zhou Yi said: "Since the decision-making process of the program department is a black box. Is it possible that this black box is being manipulated?"

"Of course. What you said is also what I care about."

Gustave obviously became more energetic, and his speech speed also increased a little: "Since no one needs to be responsible for making decisions, most of the participants in the decision-making process do not care about the final result, because this represents the 'program order'. It is difficult to change this point, and the larger the city, the more irreversible it is."

"On the contrary, emerging small electromechanical cities have room for adjustment. Because there are few members in the program department, one member manages one field."

"As far as I know, some small cities even have only 4 to 5 electromechanical lives making decisions in the program department, and they can reach a consensus through private communication."

"This transparent artificial influence on decision-making allows many small cities to develop rapidly in the early stage and flexibly and quickly formulate many strategies, and even seek methods outside the program department. But once the city grows in size and the number of members in the program department increases, it will be assimilated into a black box model."

"Isn't it amazing? Electromechanical cities are trapped in a vicious circle that they cannot get rid of."

Its words reminded Zhou Yi of Recursive City.

After the electromechanical city group announced sanctions, only Recursive City, a small city, was still trying to cooperate with the company in the cracks, and even sent the Chunqiu Chamber of Commerce, a vest, to maintain contact and transactions.

Small cities inherently embrace change, also because they have not yet entered the stage of black box decision-making.

Zhou Yi asked: "Have electromechanical cities always been in this mode?"

"Not really."

Gustave paused for a moment: "As far as I know, before the outbreak of the brain-eating worm incident, many electromechanical cities adopted a post responsibility system. This is a bit like today's human cities. At that time, we also had positions with concentrated power such as mayors, deputy mayors, sheriffs, judges, and tax officials."

"If the city's crime rate remains high, the sheriff needs to be responsible for this. The form is usually a salary reduction or an increase in alternate professionals. The mayor, as the highest decision-maker, formulates corresponding laws and regulations according to different cities."

"After the outbreak of the brain-eating worm incident, the post responsibility system was considered a backward centralized system and was completely replaced by the departmental responsibility system. The general protocol transformed and controlled the entire electromechanical society. This is what it has become today..."

Zhou Yi's mind was racing.

The brain-eating worm incident broke up the existing urban power structure and reconstructed the electromechanical society through black boxes and general protocols.

Now everyone is not responsible, and it doesn't matter to me whether the city is bad or not.

From this point of view, the cohesion of electromechanical lives should also be much worse than before.

Gustave also said: "I found that your company is developing rapidly, so I was very curious and collected a lot of information to try to find the reason."

"At first, I couldn't understand at all that an emerging organization could make major breakthroughs in multiple fields in just one or two years, and even hold exclusive outputs and services."

Rolls-Royce became more and more excited: "I have read the book about you, 'Liberating All Mankind'. The description of using humans as the main framework to release their specific forms of productivity really made me feel enlightened, and finally I know the crux of our problem."

"Electromechanical lives need to reduce self-enclosure and exclusion, and cooperate and complement each other with various intelligent races, and learn to accept the customs and traditions of other ethnic groups."

"The company strives for the welfare of every employee in the collective as much as possible. This is a universal value that can be integrated into any city through economic, technological and cultural channels."

"New things will replace old things. The electromechanical society cannot return to the past post responsibility system, and the departmental responsibility system is even more of a long-standing problem."

"The city is already an outdated form of settlement. The company model like Wasteland Development Company is the future collective form that electromechanical lives should try."

Zhou Yi was a little confused by its series of praises.

The company form replaces the city model?

Zhou Yi himself had never thought of it that way.

However.

This electromechanical rich man has indeed been thinking about the future of electromechanical cities and seeking a way out and space for the entire group, which can be called a thinker in the electromechanical society.

Zhou Yi immediately extended an invitation: "Gustave, if you are willing, I hope you join our company."

"Sorry, I can't agree."

The other party refused: "I admire your company very much, but joining the company cannot solve the problems of the electromechanical society."

"I need to spread Sunday and the new collective form, let everyone understand this, and build a large company that belongs to our electromechanical lives."

"Only by replacing the old system with a more attractive new model can we change the current situation of the entire electromechanical society. If you want to change from within, you will only be bound by the general protocol and unable to move."

"I will continue to run for this and act with the electromechanical Knights. So I'm sorry I can't stay, but I will continue to pay attention to Wasteland Development Company and look forward to more changes from Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Yi thought it was a pity.

The company still lacks such a staff-type employee with a high perspective.

"If you don't mind, I have a friend to recommend."

Gustave said: "Its name is Tuozhu. It is an independent architect and designer who likes to create strange new things. Its style is free and undisciplined. It used to be very wealthy, but later became poor for some reason."

"Tuozhu is a talented guy. I think you will get along well with it."

Zhou Yi pondered.

The electromechanical life that Gustave likes should not be bad either.

He immediately said straightforwardly: "Let it come directly."

"I have already contacted it, but Tuozhu has some personal troubles that need to be dealt with first. It said it will come this winter."

Rolls-Royce said so.