Although human beings have been born for more than 2 million years, the time since human civilization was formed has only been more than 5,000 years. Over 5000 years, human civilization has continued to develop and advance, and finally entered the road of technological development hundreds of years ago.
The power of science and technology is beyond our imagination. It only took more than 200 years for human beings to make human civilization leap again and again. Nowadays, human beings have stepped out of the earth and began to explore the universe. This is the welfare brought to us by technology.
Although the current technological development seems to be updated every day, and the development is relatively fast, but the real situation is not the case. The science and technology of the past half a century are actually the application and realization of those basic science and technology theories more than 50 years ago. It is the continuous accumulation of applied technology, rather than a real qualitative change.
We must understand the truth: if a civilization wants to truly upgrade to a higher level of civilization, the volume of applied technology cannot be changed. Even if we continue to advance and accumulate applied technology, we cannot upgrade a civilization. Only qualitatively changed science and technology can truly upgrade civilization.
Some people might say that in the past half a century, human technology has undergone earth-shaking changes. How can it not be a qualitative change? In fact, as long as we think about it carefully, you will understand. I believe many people know Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Einstein’s equation of mass-energy, and the theory of relativity and other great basic theories.
Without these great basic theories, there would be no subsequent human technologies. And these basic theories were put forward by some great scientists more than 50 years ago, more than 100 years ago. After these basic and great theories are put forward, human beings conduct research and exploration on this basis, and have more technologies, and then we apply these technologies to practice and serve mankind.
We can look at the various applied sciences and technologies on Thursday, and you will find that none of them escaped the framework of the basic theories more than 50 years ago, and even completely guided by those theories. It can be seen that our current technology is actually applied technology, and there is no such great new basic theory as the law of universal gravitation and the theory of relativity.
Of course, although the current level of human science and technology is the realization and accumulation of the application of basic theories in the past, scientists are constantly looking for new ways to explore in this accumulation process. Many future theories and technologies have been conjectured by scientists. Once these sciences and technologies are realized, they will trigger a new technological explosion, which will truly upgrade human civilization and promote a qualitative leap in human civilization.
So what science and technology can help mankind achieve a qualitative leap? The editor summarized five of them, let us take a look together.
1. The soaring of computer technology
The computer can be said to be one of the greatest inventions since mankind entered the technological age. In ancient times, human civilization had four great inventions, and after mankind entered the age of technology, there were also four great inventions, and computers were one of them.
We all know that the realization of science and technology requires the realization of related basic theories, and the birth of every scientific theory requires a lot of data reasoning and simulation. Although the human brain is very developed, it is not incapable. We have super creative and thinking abilities, but we do not have strong data processing capabilities.
The human brain is inherently weak in data processing, and scientific theories require a lot of data processing. If these data are calculated by the human brain, a lot of time and manpower will be required, which will seriously hinder the advancement of human science and technology invisibly.
The computer is different. Its most powerful place is data processing. The data processing work that humans can take years or even decades to complete may be only a few hours or even a few minutes to the computer.
With the help of computers, humans can interpret the emergence from a large amount of data processing work, and focus on creativity and thinking. With computers for processing a large amount of data, human science and technology have ushered in big explosions. It can be said that human civilization can have current achievements, and computers have taken a lot of credit.
Computers play an important role in the rapid development of human technology. Therefore, it will continue to serve mankind in the future. However, due to the continuous development of human science and technology, there are more and more data, especially the data obtained from exploring space is even more huge.
Traditional computers can no longer meet the needs of human development. In the future, more powerful computers will inevitably appear, such as quantum computers, nanocomputers, superconducting computers, DNA computers, and photonic computers. New computer technology will surely push human technology and civilization forward, and even produce unimaginable qualitative changes.
2. Changes caused by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has many similarities with computers, but they are quite different. Artificial intelligence has a powerful self-learning ability, it can learn a lot of human knowledge in a short period of time.
The rapid development of human civilization is inseparable from computers, and artificial intelligence will be more important to human development in the future. You must know that the future of mankind will inevitably go to the starry sky, and the universe is a vast space full of various dangers. The human body is very fragile, and it is impossible to explore some dangerous areas of the universe.
The future development of mankind needs more energy. These energy sources need to be exploited in space. It is difficult for mankind to survive in the dangerous environments of space. The artificial intelligence robots are completely different. They only need to provide energy to work all the time, and can deal with various dangerous environments. This shows that artificial intelligence is an indispensable and important auxiliary tool for human beings to develop rapidly in the space field in the future.
3. Biotechnology. Life can be said to be the most mysterious thing in the universe. Humans can create powerful nuclear weapons and spacecraft to explore the universe, but we cannot create a simple grain of rice.
A grain of rice is small and simple in the eyes of many people, but no matter how simple it is, it is also life. We can’t crack the mystery of life, so naturally we can’t make a simple grain of rice. As the most mysterious life in the universe, there must be some ultimate mysteries of the universe behind the life.
After mankind enters the age of science and technology, exploring the mysteries of life is the most important science. Biotechnology is currently a science and technology that human beings vigorously develop. Through the exploration of life theories and the study of life processes, we can continuously restore the birth and evolution process of life, so as to finally master the mysteries of life and serve mankind.
In fact, one of the most important reasons for humans to explore the mysteries of life is to extend human life. Maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, a longer life span is nothing more than being able to stay longer at this time. After all, everyone wants to live longer by themselves.
However, in the eyes of scientists, the length of life is directly related to the key to whether human technology can make a rapid leap. We all know that the emergence of human scientific theories requires the efforts of scientists, especially great scientists like Einstein.
If Einstein can live to the present, then human technology will go further, and it is possible that it is now a first-class civilization, rather than staying at level 0.7. It can be seen how important a great scientist is to the development of human civilization.
More importantly, scientists are all veterans, that is, the older they are, the easier they are to achieve results. Because scientific knowledge and experience need to be accumulated continuously, the famous scientists in the world are basically old people who are approaching the end of their lives.
Although people get older, the more they have acquired scientific knowledge and the more they have experience, but time is not forgiving. It is the time when people have made great contributions to human science and technology. Life has come to an end and left this world.
This is a huge and regrettable loss for human beings. If the life span of human beings can be doubled, then these Taishan Beidou scientists can continue to contribute to the scientific cause with a younger and more energetic attitude, which will accelerate the rapid development of human science and technology.
4. Quantum technology. I believe everyone knows that quantum mechanics is the science of studying and exploring the microscopic world. Quantum mechanics and macroscopic science are two completely different paths, and the theoretical rules of the macroscopic world are completely incompatible with the quantum world. Many phenomena in quantum mechanics are subverting macroscopic theories and subverting existing scientific cognition.
There are many incredible phenomena in quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement, which is a quantum technology that scientists value most. The so-called quantum entanglement means that if two quanta are in an entangled state, no matter how far apart the two quanta are, they can sense each other’s state with zero delay, thereby making synchronous changes.
This transmission speed has far surpassed the speed of light, and it is of great significance for future human exploration of the starry sky. You must know that the distance of the universe is vast. With light-year as the basic unit, the traditional communication speed is only the speed of light, which is the speed of the tortoise in the universe.
For human beings to explore the starry sky in the future, communication is naturally inseparable. For example, when we go to the Biling galaxy, major changes have taken place there, and we need guidance and support from the Earth. If it is a traditional communication technology, it takes more than 8 years to communicate back and forth. After such a long period of time, the yellow flowers and grass are already cold. Only quantum communication can realize rapid communication and even instant communication.
5. Antigravity technology. After the Big Bang, it has evolved step by step as the universe continues to expand, forming today’s universe. The various celestial bodies and galaxies formed by the evolution of the universe have an important pushing hand behind it, and this pushing hand is gravity.
Gravity is the core rule of the universe. If mankind wants to better explore the universe in the future, it will naturally need to master the technology of gravity, and anti-gravity technology can not only allow underproduction to easily get out of the planet and out of a galaxy, but it may also allow us to master some space. The law, and thus the space-distorted space jump, enters the super-light-speed era.
For this reason, scientists have been studying anti-gravity technology. Once anti-gravity technology has achieved breakthrough development, it means that human beings have truly become an interstellar civilization and can easily go out of the solar system to explore other galaxies. This is of great significance to mankind. With the anti-gravity technology, mankind’s path to space colonization will also be opened, and the development of civilization will usher in a qualitative change.
The above are the five technologies that may become the “fuse” of the technological explosion in the future. Of course, the technologies that have caused qualitative changes in human technology are far from these five, they are just a few representative ones, as long as these five technologies can be realized. Then human civilization will get rid of the current predicament of low-level civilization and become a member of high-level civilization. The stronger the strength of human civilization, the longer it can hope to continue.