Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

61.

This year, Mo Dao was 67 years old.

Mo Dao no longer paid much attention to the repeated clinical trials of the human hibernation project.

The work of related clinical trials was mostly handed over to other core researchers of the research team.

Based on the previous rounds of clinical trials, there were no serious unknown problems in the subsequent clinical trials of human hibernation technology.

After achieving the ultimate goal of this life, although Mo Dao continued some research in the fields of life and biology that were in line with the trajectory of this life, he basically began to be in a state of gradual semi-retirement.

In the same year,

the thought trend of the entire human society also showed obvious changes in the repeated large-scale discussions on human hibernation technology.

Although this year, human hibernation technology has not been popularized to the point where everyone in China can use it, based on the previous official decision, everyone knows that the large-scale popularization of human hibernation technology is inevitable.

Many people, the younger they are, are more affected by this cognition, and there have been obvious changes in their thoughts and mainstream public opinion.

Everyone's plans seem to have become much longer-term all of a sudden.

——What is a human society that will plan for 300 years like?

The desire for technological change has become more intense.

“It is impossible that after waking up from hibernation, the world will still be exactly the same and unchanged.”

The demand for energy in human society has become more concerned and tense.

The energy crisis that may actually take another 100 or 200 years to really appear seems to have become more urgent at this moment.

A considerable number of people, or the mainstream population, have become more radical and support investing more resources in the research of energy technology.

The idea of ​​external expansion and exploration of other planets has also become more mainstream.

In mainstream discussions, there is a growing tendency to expand beyond the earth.

There are also some other, some long-term plans, some ideas for longer-term considerations.

Regarding these,

the most widely spread sentence this year is,

“We must always consider the world three hundred years later… After all, we may really be able to see the world three hundred years later.”

The life span has not increased, but the time that can be seen has become farther.

If the human hibernation technology is used reasonably, it may be a good thing for the entire human society and civilization.

Outside,

just from the perspective of the mind, because of the human hibernation technology, drastic changes have taken place.

Mo Dao also spent the rest of his life quietly in this process.

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In 1963,

after almost three years of phase III clinical trials,

and after multiple attempts of human hibernation with different volunteers for more than one year,

this year,

the human hibernation center, which had been decided by the higher authorities before, began to be actually built.

Mo Dao, the general manager of the human hibernation project, received an invitation and also served as the head of the human hibernation center.

However, Mo Dao only needed to hang a name.

The human hibernation technology has been relatively mature after phase III clinical trials, and Mo Dao does not need to do anything.

It only needs the human hibernation project research team to provide technical support,

or the human hibernation project research team and cooperative units to provide hibernation cabins and hibernation materials for the human hibernation center.

Some volunteers who have been stored in the human hibernation project for so long and are still in a long-term hibernation state have also begun to move to the human hibernation center.

These hibernators who enter long-term hibernation will be placed in the human hibernation center for a long time.

Other people who choose to enter hibernation will also be placed in human hibernation centers in various places.

Considering the special nature of the human hibernation project, the cost of volunteers entering human hibernation at this stage is free.

After it is opened to the public, it will most likely continue to be free, or set at a lower price.

The main consideration is the right to life.

Other countries are different.

China is unlikely to set the cost of human hibernation too high.

It can be said that from the perspective of cost and direct benefits alone, the establishment of a hibernation center is also a loss-making business for the government.

Of course, in the long run, it is not necessarily the case.

But these have nothing to do with Mo Dao.

Mo Dao did not pay much attention to how the human hibernation technology is applied,

and it did not affect him.

What he wanted to get from this life, he has already got.

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In 1964, human hibernation centers in various places are still being built in full swing.

At the same time, due to the obvious changes in the overall social atmosphere, the funds invested in scientific research by the whole society are obviously increasing.

According to statistics, compared with the period before the birth of human hibernation technology, the funds invested in scientific research by the society have almost doubled in the past few years.

A large part of the funds have flowed into the field of energy research, which has stimulated the research in fields such as controlled nuclear fusion.

Perhaps, even without Mo Dao's participation in this life, humans will be able to make breakthroughs in this field in a few years.

There is another key reason that has gradually emerged.

If human hibernation centers begin to be put into use on a large scale, the power consumption caused by the hibernation chambers alone will greatly increase the electricity and energy needs of the entire society.

This matter is directly related to everyone. Everyone still doesn't want to hibernate well, but the hibernation cabin is cut off.

Even though most people have not thought about hibernating during their lifetime, it does not prevent them from thinking about it in advance.

Time, in this change, continues to pass.

Then came ’65, ’66… until ’68.

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In this life, research in the field of life sciences in the direction of ‘improving the quality of life under extreme life spans’,

Instead, it relies on a better understanding of human body mechanisms, which is very effective.

This year, Mo Dao is 74 years old.

However, in terms of research energy, I can still keep up, and it is far less serious than the effects of aging during the same period in previous lives.

This year,

Two things happened.

After completing the research on the huge project of human hibernation technology,

It took eight years, based on the previous understanding and cognition of human body mechanisms,

Mo Dao has solved the problem of the mechanism of ALS.

then,

Based on the mechanism of ALS discovered by Mo Dao, the cooperative units gradually began to explore a new treatment for ALS.

Mo Dao has fulfilled his promise to the first volunteer in the first clinical trial of human hibernation to conduct research on the mechanism of ALS.

The first volunteer in the human hibernation clinical trial,

It was also reawakened after eight years of hibernation.

The record for hibernation duration at this stage has been refreshed.

This is also because there are complete examples of treating terminal illnesses through hibernation into the future.

It can be regarded as this year that there has been some positive impact on human hibernation technology.

In addition, the second thing this year,

That is, the study of the mechanism of ALS was the last research work that Mo Dao conducted in this life.

In this year,

After completing the research on the mechanism of ALS,

Mo Dao chose to officially step down as dean of the School of Life Sciences at Capital University.

He also resigned from his position as the leader of the human hibernation project research team.

Occasionally, I think about some issues in the field of life sciences, but no longer conduct relevant specific research.

From top to bottom, Mo Dao’s choice was naturally made with utmost restraint.

But naturally it can't affect Mo Dao's choice.

In this life, he has spent enough time on research;

Let's spend the rest of the time with his wife Qin Huaishi.