Chapter 17 Black Box and Eternals [Important Concept Chapter]
"The Eternals? Isn't that an urban legend?"
“Hasn’t mechanical ascension been proven to be a fallacy?”
"There was a mention or two in the school history textbook. They were a group of scientists who pursued separation from the body and mechanical ascension... After working on the case for so many years, I have long returned these knowledge points to the teacher."
Zhao Dafu's words caused a burst of discussion.
He Qiu opened his eyes in a daze and saw that everyone was discussing. He quickly sat upright and continued to meditate on the table in front of him.
Seeing that Zhao Dafu was unable to speak again, Lin Weilin spoke again.
Her gentle voice has some kind of magic that people can't refuse:
"There are not only professionals here, but also laymen like me. Director Zhao, please do some simple popular science about this case first. This will help us analyze the case."
"Okay, okay."
Zhao Dafu nodded repeatedly. He cleared his throat and showed the style of leading students in a graduate school. His whole temperament became much calmer.
"Then I'll start from a more basic level. Let's first understand three concepts: virtual reality, virtual reality, and virtual reality.
"Everyone can make a simple distinction like this.
"[Reality Virtuality] is an extension based on reality;
"[Virtual reality] is to build a virtual world through the Internet and create a virtual environment for users.
"[Virtual reality] is a technology developed from virtual reality. This technology is relatively complex. You can understand it as constructing a virtual world that is independent and uninterrupted by the physical world, so as to give users who are immersed in it a real experience. < br>
"Virtual reality technology is also the mainstream of today's virtual world market. It can achieve 99% reality, and the 1% reality is only limited by the express provisions of the law."
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Zhao Dafu was clearly in the zone, speaking with confidence and acting like a lecturer.
Seeing Wang Ze, He Chou, Lin Weilin, and several veteran policemen nodding at the same time, Zhao Dafu continued to output:
“Let me talk about [reality virtualization] first. The most commonly used reality augmented glasses are the iconic products of this technology.
"To take the simplest example, I designed some decorations on the virtual augmented interface and placed them in the corner of this conference room. You can only see these decorations when you put on augmented reality glasses, but you can't see them when you take off your glasses. This conference room The material basis has not been changed. This is virtual reality, which is augmented reality.
“It can be said that reality virtual technology has completely changed our living environment. Students can go to class without leaving the dormitory. We can directly use our own image to walk into the cinema and sit there to watch movies without leaving home.
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"It is based on reality, so it is restricted by law not to use virtual images, and must use your own real image.
"To sum up briefly, the existence of [reality virtualization] technology is to beautify our real life, enrich daily elements, and provide humans with a more convenient and lazier living environment."
Wang Ze smiled and said: "Indeed, if there is a course now that does not allow access to the Internet, there will be very few students attending the class."
"Yes, that's it," Zhao Dafu felt the same way.
Zhao Dafu added a few more words:
“But there are barriers to [reality and virtual reality] technology, and there has been no significant progress for almost six to seven hundred years.
"The direction of its development has actually been solidified, which is to simply serve as an environmental supplement to human material society.
"Like Mother Planet, the virtual development rights of a pedestrian street of tens of meters will be auctioned at a very high price, which can generate good advertising revenue."
Lin Weilin reminded: "Director Zhao, the focus of our discussion should be on virtual reality technology."
"Oh, right, right," Zhao Dafu smiled awkwardly, "I couldn't control it for a moment, so we will introduce virtual reality technology right away."
Virtual reality, commonly known as VR, simulates a virtual environment through a computer to give people a sense of immersion in the environment.
Zhao Dafu continued to talk:
"This technology actually originated very early. The original concept was attempted in the military field for soldier training in the early 20th century of the Earth Era.
"At the beginning of the 21st century of the Earth Era, with the information technology revolution, its concept began to be widely promoted and used. At that time, many large groups forcibly gave it a new concept in order to open up the market and boost stocks, calling it Yuan The universe, virtual universe, etc., those capitals have created a lot of conceptual things, but there is no new development in the actual form, which has also attracted criticism from many supporters of physical technology
"Looking at it now, the metaverse stage is still far away from the maturity of real virtual reality technology. The industrial foundation and basic theory are not achieved at all. There is no guarantee of network security. Related research on human beings is also unable to support virtual reality technology. implementation.
"In general, the metaverse stage is about selling concepts. The technical means have always been to make the flat image protrude and let the sound pass through your ears. We want to directly convert the information into a signal that the brain can recognize and safely transmit it to the brain. , which was far from possible at the time.”
Zhao Dafu smiled with squinted eyes, probably thinking of something that made him happy, and his voice became more relaxed and cheerful:
"Technology is constantly developing, although the speed of development may be fast or slow.
"While virtual reality technology has made key progress, senior scientists have made historic breakthroughs in basic mathematics, antigravity materials, dark matter detection and other fields. The era of interstellar exploration is coming.
“At that time, a very interesting multiple-choice question appeared.
"Do you want to waste your life immersed in the beautiful dreams weaved by programmers, or do you want to set sail and conquer the sea of stars!
"We, the descendants, should be fortunate that some of our ancestors chose the stars and the sea."
"Director Zhao..."
Lin Weilin held her forehead and complained a little weakly:
"I appreciate the romance of scientists, but we must spend all our time discussing the case now. Can you directly introduce the Eternals you just mentioned."
He Chou couldn't help but laugh at the side, but he listened with great interest.
"Mr. Lin, don't worry, I'll talk about it soon."
Zhao Dafu sniffed, the smile on his white and fat face disappeared, and he could only bring the topic back:
"Then let's talk directly about the Eternals... related black box technology."
Lin Weilin could only cover her eyes, actually laughing at Zhao Dafu's stubbornness, but did not interrupt Zhao Dafu again.
About three hundred years ago, around the year 2100 of the Nova Era.
The existing political system of the nine major star clusters has become stable, cracks have appeared in human society, slight differences have appeared in the direction of development, and the virtual network black box technology has become fully mature.
"This black box technology is very critical. I must say a few more words. This is the basis of real virtuality. In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, I will simply draw a picture."
Zhao Dafu stood up, and with the movement of his gestures, he pulled the projection screen behind him, pushed away the chair, and drew a circle with his round arms.
"This is the surface web.
"What does the surface network consist of? It is the network that we are in direct contact with. From the World Wide Web in the Earth Era to the current Star Network, the concept has not changed much. It consists of network access terminals, networks, website servers, root servers, and A limited network composed of many application scenarios for reality augmentation
"We use this circle to represent the surface network..."
Zhao Dafu's next introduction became lengthy again.
Wang Ze himself briefly summarized it.
More than three hundred years ago, as the territory of the nine star clusters stabilized, many technologies that had been locked up by the military began to be used by civilians, and virtual port technology for entertainment matured almost overnight.
This port technology can connect virtual signals through the connection between the spine and the brain to produce real body sensations. Virtual reality-related industries have developed rapidly with the crazy promotion of capital, and virtual world games have begun to explode.
The original virtual world was built on the surface network. After decades of popularity, it has accumulated a lot of problems.
The most fatal problem is that the personal safety of users cannot be guaranteed.
The development of science and technology cannot directly drive the progress of human moral concepts.
No matter how many firewalls the virtual world operators set up at that time, they could not stop criminals who were dazzled by the huge profiteering gray industry, which resulted in a series of bad events such as 'virtual control', 'virtual brainwashing', and 'mental imprinting' .
The second biggest problem in the surface network virtual world is actually fairness.
As more and more people's lives focus on the virtual world, competition among virtual world operators has become increasingly fierce. The resources actually owned by the wealthy class are amplified by virtual world operators and projected into the virtual world. This creates more privileges.
The virtual economy driven by the virtual world has not benefited ordinary people in the long run, but has intensified social conflicts.
To make matters worse, after humans were immersed in the virtual world of the surface network, the entire social system began to degrade. Crime increased significantly, class solidification accelerated, the poor became poorer, technological progress slowed down, and the social environment of the nine star clusters deteriorated sharply.
In this context, black box technology emerged as the times require.
Zhao Dafu drew a square box within a circle representing the surface network.
"Black box technology is also part of the unblocked military technology.
"The opposite of the black box is the white box. They are like the two worlds inside and outside the mirror. They are exactly the same. Their original forms can influence each other and belong to the field of physical quantum entanglement..."
He Chou frowned and said, "Say something humane."
"This..."
Zhao Dafu glanced at He Qiu's thick arms and said hurriedly:
"Captain He can simplify the understanding. A black box is a server that is not connected to the surface network. This server has ultra-high computing power, which is enough to calculate the second-level changes in Saturn's atmospheric environment.
"Then, through this server, we generate a world.
"This world can be planet-shaped, or it can be a round sky and a square place. These can be controlled by variables.
"Black box technology simulates the evolution of the physical state of a world from the very beginning. According to the variables we set, we accelerate the internal time of the black box by a factor of 100,000 to create a stable and interesting virtual world.
"Every game world that uses black box technology on the market today has gone through thousands of generation failures and accidentally generated a stable environment.
"After the initial input of variables, no one or any external technology can directly interfere with the evolution of the virtual world in the black box. It exists absolutely independently to ensure the security of the black box itself."
Wang Ze asked: "If the black box is absolutely independent, how to achieve player login?"
"This classmate's question is very good, but have you forgotten what I just said? The counterpart to the black box is the white box."
Zhao Dafu raised his eyebrows at Wang Ze, then realized that the situation was not right, his expression became cautious again, and explained in detail:
"The inside of the black box is a stable virtual world. In order to ensure its independence and security, players must not be allowed to access it directly.
"Synchronically formed with a black box world, there is also a white box world. The two are coherent with each other. They are classic applications of quantum mechanics. They can ignore space barriers and maintain synchronous changes."
"We digitize the white box and retain a reincarnation system for adding virtual characters created by users; the black box remains independent and maintains the priority of the black box over the white box.
"The virtual world in the black box is the ontology, and the virtual world in the white box is the mirror image; but the player's virtual character in the white box is the subject, and the virtual character in the black box is the mirror image... Can you understand this logic?
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"Then we set up an observation server outside the black box.
"When you operate the virtual character in the white box to make an action, the action is mapped to the black box. Your mirrored virtual character makes corresponding interactions in the black box world. The feedback generated by the interaction is obtained by observing the server and transmitted through the port device. Give players brains
"In this way, we can confirm that players can only participate in the independent virtual world through the behavior of their own virtual characters, integrate themselves into it, and become a part of the virtual world.
"This experience is like...the literature about reincarnation in other worlds that has been popular for more than two thousand years.
"This is black box technology."
Zhao Dafu breathed out lightly and wiped the hot sweat from his forehead.
"This is also the disadvantage of this technology. Players can change a good virtual world beyond recognition within a certain period of time. When the cultural system and economic system of this virtual world completely collapse, the game loses its rationality and interest. Sex means coming to an end.”
Deputy Director Gong Tianzheng couldn't help but remind: "Director Zhao, you still haven't mentioned the Eternals."
"Once the general concept of black box technology is explained clearly, you can easily understand the Eternals."
Zhao Dafu sighed:
"Black box technology provides a stable and independent virtual world, and we humans, deep down, want to extend our lives. The two collide with each other... and most social resources are often in the hands of a small number of wealthy people..."
Wang Ze whispered: "The Eternals refer to humans who want to live forever in the black box virtual world?"
"Yes, this is the pursuit of the Eternals, to create a stable black box world, abandon your body, immerse yourself in the black box world, and complete the so-called mechanical ascension.
“Initially, a group of wealthy people organized themselves and called themselves the Eternals.
"When they were at their craziest, they influenced the governments of various star clusters, mobilized countless resources, and finally achieved key breakthroughs in two technologies.
“The two technologies are, first, the [brain-like] technology that can replicate the human brain. It uses the brain-like simulation to learn its own behavior and uploads the memory to the artificial brain, thereby replicating oneself in the online world.
“Second, the [Key] system that can analyze human emotions and activate brain-like self-awareness.
"This key system is the most confidential technology. Now everyone in the nine star clusters claims that they do not have this technology, but everyone knows that this is a strategic level technology reserve. It is impossible for the nine star clusters not to retain it and use it to fight Cyberwarfare and Virtual Warfare ”
Zhao Dafu looked at Wang Ze and smiled: "What happened next was not written into the history of human development and was suppressed as a secret, but Mr. Wang should know."
Everyone in the conference room looked at Wang Ze.
Wang Ze's facial expression did not change at all: "What do you mean?"
Zhao Dafu smiled and said: "We have also investigated your information, Mr. Wang. Your family business, the famous Tianze Technology, participated in the war with the Eternals and played an important role."
"This has nothing to do with me," Wang Ze explained. "My uncle is in charge of Tianze Technology. I have not been interested in this aspect since I was a child, so I haven't learned much about it."
"That's it, sorry, sorry,"
Zhao Dafu continued:
"The story of the Eternals is not a secret, let alone an urban legend. It is rarely mentioned now, and the next generation will probably basically forget it.
"After all, this is not a glorious thing for us humans.
"The crazy Eternals have used these two technologies to complete what they think of as mechanical ascension. They are basically the wealthy class. In order to maintain their uniqueness, they have set a higher threshold for mechanical ascension and created their own The black box world calls it an advanced plane, what, fairyland, heaven, ark, the final destination of mankind
"But they soon discovered a problem."
Zhao Dafu pushed up his glasses:
"The brain is the most important organ of human beings. This is actually what the brain tells us." (End of Chapter)