Yu Guang

Chapter 17 Black Box and Eternals 【Important Concept Chapter】

"Eternals? Isn't that an urban legend?"

"Hasn't mechanical ascension been proven to be a fallacy?"

"There must be a sentence or two mentioned in the school history textbook. It is a group of scientists who pursue to break away from the body and mechanically ascend... After so many years of handling cases, they have already returned these knowledge points to the teacher."

Zhao Dafu's words caused a burst of discussion.

He Chou opened his eyes in a daze, and saw that everyone was discussing, so he quickly sat up straight and continued to meditate on the table in front of him.

Seeing that Zhao Dafu was about to get stuck, Lin Weilin spoke again.

Her gentle voice has a certain magical power that people cannot refuse:
"There are not only professionals here, but also laymen like me. Director Zhao, please do some simple science popularization about this case first, so that we can analyze the case."

"Okay, okay."

Zhao Dafu nodded again and again, he cleared his throat, and showed the style of leading students in the research institute, his whole temperament became much calmer.

"Then I'll start with the basics. Let's figure out three concepts first, virtual reality, virtual reality, and virtual reality.

"Everyone can make a distinction like this.

“[Reality Virtual] is to expand and extend on the basis of reality;

“[Virtual reality] is to build a virtual world through the network and create a virtual environment for users.

“[Virtual Reality] is a technology developed from virtual reality. This technology is relatively complicated. You can understand it as constructing an independent virtual world that is not disturbed by the physical world, so as to give users immersed in it a real experience.

"Virtual reality technology is also the mainstream in today's virtual world market. It can achieve 90.00% authenticity, and the [-]% authenticity is only limited by the express laws and regulations."

Zhao Dafu has obviously entered the state, speaking with full confidence, showing the air of a lecturer.

Seeing Wang Ze, He Qiu, Lin Weilin, and several senior officers nodding at the same time, Zhao Dafu continued to output:
"Let me talk about [Reality Virtual] first. The most commonly used augmented reality glasses are the iconic products of this technology.

"To give the simplest example, I design some decorations on the virtual augmented interface and put them in the corner of this meeting room. You can only see these decorations when you wear augmented reality glasses, but you can't see them when you take off the glasses. This meeting room The material basis of reality has not been changed, this is the virtual reality, that is, the augmented reality.

"It can be said that virtual reality 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.

"It is based on reality, so it is restricted by law not to use virtual images, and must use your real image.

"In a nutshell, the existence of [Reality Virtual] 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, there are very few students attending a class that does not allow access to the Internet."

"That's right, that's it," Zhao Dafu felt the same way.

Zhao Dafu added a few more words:
“But there are barriers to [reality virtual] technology, and there has been no significant progress for almost six or seven hundred years.

"Its development direction has actually been solidified, that is, it is simply used as an environmental supplement for human material society.

"Like Homestar, the real virtual development rights of tens of meters of a pedestrian street will be auctioned for super high prices, which can generate good advertising revenue."

Lin Weilin reminded: "Director Zhao, the focus of our discussion should be on virtual reality technology."

"Oh, that's right," Zhao Dafu smiled awkwardly, "I can't control it for a while, let's introduce virtual reality technology immediately."

Virtual reality, commonly known as VR, is a computer simulation of a virtual environment to give people a sense of environmental immersion.

Zhao Dafu continued to talk eloquently:

"This technology actually originated very early. The original concept was tried in the military field for soldier training in the early twentieth century of the Earth Era.

"Developed to the early 21st century of the Earth Era, with the revolution of information technology, 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 metaverse, The virtual universe and so on, those capitals have done a lot of conceptual things, but the actual form has not been developed, and it has also attracted criticism from many supporters of physical technology.

"Looking at it now, the Metaverse stage is still very far away from the maturity of real virtual reality technology. The industrial foundation and basic theory cannot be reached at all, and there is no guarantee for network security. The related research on human beings also cannot support virtual reality technology. realization.

"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. You want to directly convert the information into a signal that the brain can recognize and transmit it safely to the brain. , which was far from possible at the time.”

Zhao Dafu squinted his eyes and smiled. He should have thought of something that made him happy, and his voice became more relaxed and cheerful:
"Technology is constantly evolving, albeit at different speeds.

"While virtual reality technology has made key progress, advanced scientists have made historic breakthroughs in basic mathematics, antigravity materials, dark matter detection and other fields, and the era of interstellar exploration is coming.

“That’s when an interesting multiple-choice question arose.

"Do you want to immerse yourself in the beautiful dreams woven by programmers to waste your life, or set sail to conquer the sea of ​​stars!

"We descendants should be thankful that some of our ancestors chose Stars and Seas."

"Director Zhao..."

Lin Weilin supported her forehead, a little weak to complain:
"I appreciate the romance of scientists, but we must now spend all our time discussing the case. Can you just introduce the Eternals you just mentioned."

He Qiu couldn't help laughing, but he listened with gusto.

"Mr. Lin, don't worry, I'll talk about it right away."

Zhao Dafu sniffled, the smile on Bai Pang's face disappeared, and he could only bring the topic back:

"Then let's talk directly about the Eternal Race... related black box technology."

Lin Weilin could only cover her eyes, she was actually laughed at by Zhao Dafu's stubbornness, but she didn't interrupt Zhao Dafu again.

About 300 years ago, around 2100 in the Nova Era.

The existing nine star cluster regimes tend to be stable, cracks appear in human society, slight differences appear in the direction of development, and the virtual network black box technology is fully mature.

"This black box technology is very critical. I have to say a few more words. This is the basis of reality and virtuality. In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, I will simply draw a picture."

Zhao Dafu stood up, followed the gestures, pulled the projection screen behind him, pushed away the chair, and drew a circle with his round arms.

"This is the surface network.

"What does the surface network consist of? It is the network we are in direct contact with. From the World Wide Web in the Earth Era to the current Star Domain Network, the concept has not changed much. It is composed of network access terminals, networks, website servers, root servers, and Reality augments many application scenarios and constitutes a limited network.

"We use this circle to represent the surface network..."

Zhao Dafu's next introduction began to become lengthy again.

Wang Ze himself summed it up briefly.

More than 300 years ago, as the territory of the nine star clusters stabilized, many technologies locked by the military began to be transferred to civilian use, and the 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 a real sense of body. The virtual reality related industries have developed rapidly under the impetus of capital madness, and virtual world games have begun to blow out.

The original virtual world was built on the surface network, and 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 installed at that time, they could not resist the criminals who were dazzled by the profiteering gray industry, resulting in a series of bad events such as 'virtual control', 'virtual brainwashing', and 'spiritual branding' .

The second biggest problem in the virtual world of the surface network is actually fairness.

As the center of gravity of people's life is more and more tilted towards the virtual world, the competition among virtual world operators is becoming more and more fierce. Hence more privileges.

The virtual economy driven by the virtual world does not benefit ordinary people in the long run, but intensifies social conflicts.

To make matters worse, after human beings are immersed in the virtual world of the surface network, the entire social system begins to degenerate, crimes increase sharply, class solidification accelerates, the poor become poorer, technological progress slows down, and the social environment of the Nine Star Clusters deteriorates sharply.

In this context, black box technology came into being.

Zhao Dafu drew a square box in the 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. The original forms can affect each other, and they belong to the field of physical quantum entanglement..."

He Qiu frowned and said, "Say something human."

"This one……"

Zhao Dafu glanced at He Qiu's thick arm, and hurriedly said:
"Captain He can simplify the understanding. The black box is a server that is not connected to the surface network. This server has super high computing power, which can satisfy the calculation of 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 place, all of which can be controlled by variables.

"Black box technology is to simulate the evolution of a world's physical state from the very beginning, and according to the variables we set, accelerate the internal time of the black box by [-] times to create a stable and interesting virtual world.

"Every game world that uses black box technology on the market today has undergone thousands of generation failures, and a stable environment has been generated by accident.

"After the initial input of variables, no one or any external technology can directly interfere with the evolution of the virtual world inside the black box. It exists absolutely independently to ensure the safety of the black box itself."

Wang Ze asked: "If the black box is absolutely independent, how can players log in?"

"This student's question is very good, but, have you forgotten what I just said? The white box corresponds to the black box."

Zhao Dafu raised his eyebrows at Wang Ze, and then realized that the occasion was wrong, his expression became cautious again, and he 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 directly access it.

"Simultaneously formed with a black box world, there is also a white box world. The two are coherent. It belongs to the classical application of quantum mechanics, which can ignore the space barrier and keep changing synchronously."

"We digitized the white box and retained a reincarnation system to add virtual characters created by users; the black box remained independent and maintained the priority of the black box to 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 avatar in the white box is the subject, and the avatar in the black box is the mirror image... Can you understand this logic?

"Then, we set up an observation server outside the black box.

"When you operate the avatar in the white box to do an action, the action is mapped to the black box, and your mirrored avatar makes a corresponding interaction in the black box world, and obtains the feedback generated by the interaction by observing the server, and transmits it through the port device Give players brains.

"In this way, we can be sure that players can only participate in this independent virtual world through the behavior of their virtual characters, integrate themselves into it, and become a part of the virtual world.

"This kind of experience is like... the literature on reincarnation from another world that has been popular for more than 2000 years.

"This is black box technology."

Zhao Dafu exhaled lightly, and wiped the hot sweat from his forehead.

"This is 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 will lose its rationality and fun. Sex, that means coming to an end."

Deputy Director Gong Tianzheng couldn't help reminding: "Director Zhao, you still haven't mentioned the Eternal Race."

"If you understand the general concept of black box technology, you can easily understand the Eternals."

Zhao Dafu sighed:
"Black box technology provides a stable and independent virtual world, and we humans, in our bones, want to extend our lifespan. The two collide with each other...and most of the social resources are often in the hands of a few rich people..."

Wang Ze whispered: "The eternal race refers to the human beings who want to live forever in the black box virtual world?"

"Yes, this is the pursuit of the Eternal Race, creating a stable black box world, abandoning one's own body, immersing in the black box world, and completing the so-called mechanical ascension.

"In the beginning, a group of wealthy people organized themselves and called themselves the Eternal Race.

"When they were craziest, they influenced the star cluster governments, mobilized countless resources, and finally achieved two key breakthroughs in technology.

"These two technologies are, first, the [brain simulation] technology that can reproduce the human brain, use the brain to imitate and learn one's own behavior, and upload the memory to the simulation brain, so as to reproduce a self in the online world.

"Second, the [Treasure Key] system that can analyze human emotions and activate the self-awareness of the simulated brain.

"This treasure 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 technical reserve. It is impossible for the nine star clusters not to keep it. It can be used to fight Cyber ​​warfare and virtual warfare."

Zhao Dafu looked at Wang Ze and said with a smile: "What happened later has not been written into the history books of human development, and it has also been suppressed as a secret, but Mr. Wang should know."

Everyone in the conference room looked at Wang Ze.

Wang Ze's facial expression didn't change at all: "What do you mean?"

Zhao Dafu said with a smile: "We have also investigated your information, Mr. Wang. Your family business - the famous Tianze Technology, participated in the war with the Eternal Race back then and played an important role."

"It has nothing to do with me," Wang Ze explained. "My uncle is in charge of Tianze Technology. I was not interested in this aspect when I was young, so I didn't know much about it."

"That's right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,"

Zhao Dafu continued:

"The story of the Eternal Race is not a secret, let alone an urban legend. Now it is rarely mentioned, and it is estimated that the next generation will basically forget it.

"For us humans, this is not a glorious thing after all.

"The crazy Eternals have completed what they think of as mechanical ascension through these two technologies. They are basically rich people, and then in order to maintain their own uniqueness, set a higher threshold for mechanical ascension, and use the self-created The black box world is called the high-level plane, what, fairyland, heaven, ark, the final destination of human beings.

"But they soon discovered a problem."

Zhao Dafu pushed his glasses:

"The brain is the most important organ of the human being, and that's actually what the brain tells us."

(End of this chapter)