He didn't stay with Alice for too long - after he had said everything he needed to say and left his necklace with Alice, he left with Delphinium.
He saw the Bishop standing outside the door, bending his back.
But he was not bowing to some big shot... The person in front of him was a plainly dressed old lady. She was clasping her hands and thanking the bishop respectfully and politely. The old general was also considerate of the other person's body and did not let the other person raise her head and follow her.
He spoke by himself, but he reluctantly bent down and said something softly to her.
Of course, even though she was a gray-haired old woman, she might be in her sixties or seventies.
She is wearing a walking assistance device similar to exoskeleton armor - a civilian exoskeleton specially configured for elderly people with walking difficulties.
Russell looked at the walking assist device on her body and was a little distracted for a moment.
...In a sense, this was Russell's original invention and the starting point of his dazzling life. It was through it that he gained the recognition of his mentor.
Although Russell didn't want to admit it, or even wanted to forget this experience...
Once an old person's age reaches a certain limit, his body will become extremely fragile. Just a slight bump may kill him or directly lead to paralysis. He may even fall down the stairs due to sudden dizziness and weakness.
Falling, dizziness and falling to the ground while going to the toilet...not to mention slipping on a muddy road, or stepping on something due to poor eyesight and falling.
The strength of the elderly will also be weakened a lot, and it will become troublesome to carry anything. If you live alone, many things will become troublesome. If you have to leave one person to take care of the elderly, it is easy for those who are in the development stage of their career.
Many middle-aged people have their future blocked by their parents' physical condition.
It is also impossible to assemble prosthetics for the elderly. Not everyone is compatible with prostheses, and not everyone can use any type of prostheses.
After all, the prosthetic body has a special neural interface. When the prosthetic body is first obtained in a new position, a high concentration of cognitive enhancers must be injected to allow the body to survive the initial acute rejection reaction of the prosthetic body. After that, it will be like this every day
Just like inhaling oxygen, inhaling orally inhaled cognitive enhancers multiple times can allow the body to slowly adapt to the prosthetic body.
After all, it is not a native prosthetic body, and there is no neural tissue in it at all... Even the internal organs do not work 100% according to the working method of the original organs. And limbs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose type prostheses want to make the brain
It will also take some time to adapt to this "new signal".
The essence of cognitive enhancers is a stimulant for the brain, which allows people to learn new things at an extremely fast speed. However, high-concentration cognitive enhancers are so powerful that the speed at which people absorb information is completely reduced.
It cannot keep up with the intensity of learning. Also because of its addictive nature, it is usually a restricted drug used to increase brain compatibility.
For example, replacing a limb, replacing a prosthetic body, or performing nerve or muscle strengthening surgery, extracting and replacing part of the nerves and muscles... When the brain must adapt to a new body in a short period of time, cognition must be used.
Enhancers to enable the brain to "detect the addition of a new device" and "install the driver".
Therefore, for elderly patients over 55 years old, it is usually risky to add new prosthetics. Therefore, in the past, people on Sogo Island would find time to have their legs and arms repaired after they retired.
Remove them all and replace them with prosthetics. If your liver and kidneys are also damaged, replace them as soon as possible while you are young.
In the end, there were not many original parts left.
Even though Russell had not yet gained the memory of his previous life at that time, he was also aware of the distortion of this way of living - human beings are like living beings that live in symbiosis with machines. From children to teenagers, from teenagers to young adults, from young adults to middle-aged people
From middle age to old age... at each stage, part of the body is irreversibly transformed into artificial objects, and the importance of various software and programs in life will continue to increase.
And if a rich boss can persist for a longer time after getting old... he will become even more distorted.
Their aging internal organs, skin, flesh, and bones can all be replaced with metal bit by bit at a high price, and their functions are simplified bit by bit. In the end, except for a brain, there is nothing left.
Anything. These old people who do not want to die live in society in an alienated manner... Vision, hearing, and touch are all simulated electronic signals. There is no beating heart, and there is no need for breathing and digestion.
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Because they lost the ability to eat, they also lost their sense of taste and smell; because they no longer have fragile skin, flesh and internal organs, they no longer need pain to warn themselves, and everything has more accurate "data" to monitor.
Then where is life?
It's just a steel skeleton with eyes open.
But even this kind of twisted and deformed "skeleton transformation" is not even worthy of the poor...
In the end, the first person to consider this need was Russell when he was a student.
This was also an opportunity for Russell to meet his mentor Sally Ruth.
With the help of inspiration proposed by Russell and relying on the existing "armed exoskeleton" specially used by bodyguards, Sally Ruth easily developed this civilian hydraulic device named "walking assist device" by Russell.
System exoskeleton. As a civilian exoskeleton device, it can help the elderly and patients walk, run, jump, and carry heavy objects freely without relying on prosthetics. It is also equipped with an intelligent anti-fall system that can help the elderly and patients lose their balance when they lose their balance.
assist in maintaining balance.
If another person developed this thing, he would probably become a rich man.
It is not impossible to reach the sky in one step and become Dr. Zanbai directly.
According to the laws of Sogo Island, it should have been partially copyrighted by Russell.
However, Sally Ruth told Russell that she strongly discouraged Russell from tying his name to it - this was not necessarily a good thing and might even lead to strong hatred.
After thinking about it, Russell decided to believe in Sally Ruth. Therefore, under Russell's wishes, Sally Ruth decided to sell it at cost price and generously assumed the entire manufacturing principal. As a social
Welfare-oriented devices are sold to every household at extremely low prices.
In Russell's eyes, this is one of the very few creations that can embody the "temperature of technology" in this sinful era.
...And what makes Russell feel complicated is that Sally Ruth's words are correct.
Because the technology of this thing is not complicated... It's just because prosthetic technology is too advanced and versatile, so people tend to use prosthetics to solve all problems - if prosthetics can't solve it, they use professional machines or intelligent servitors
, and no one thought of using cheap external technology to "strengthen the human body", focusing on a cost-effective idea.
Once you realize that this kind of thinking still exists, it is too simple to develop an upgraded version of the technology. On Sogo Island, people are afraid of the elf directors and dare not imitate them face to face. But on other islands, upgrades were quickly made
version.
Most of these replicas have lost their original function of "assisting the elderly to walk" and have instead become labor tools that are convenient for carrying heavy objects and performing work more efficiently.
For example, Yongquan Island.
Yongquan Island was the first to develop a professional mining version, which allows miners to mine and carry effortlessly without losing balance and falling to the ground.
It has indeed greatly reduced labor pressure, allowing each worker to spend only one-tenth of his effort and one-third of his working time to complete his daily work with quality and quantity. After all, the mining demand in the mining area is not unlimited;
There is a fixed amount of delivery every month. After the work is completed, it can be a holiday.
But the young Russell did not expect that... the workers on Yongquan Island did not get twenty days of free vacation time per month, but more than half of them were unemployed as a result.
Later, various types of civilian exoskeletons soon appeared. In the end, Sogo Island also developed a newer application model... They combined servitors with fragile driving force but the ability to learn with exoskeletons.
The bottom-level labor is completely optimized.
Although a large part of people's jobs have been replaced by servitors, the cost of training a servitor is still quite high after all...it requires careful selection, patient learning and training, and a long period of training.
It can be used normally after a period of time. It can be said that a well-trained servitor is much more valuable than a hired employee - it has high obedience, does not need to be paid, has strong learning ability, will not make stupid mistakes, and can work unlimited overtime.
He will change jobs, let alone want to replace him.
Many of the servitors used in stores are actually household servitors that the shop owners have cultivated for a long time... For example, Lang Yin's servitor "Xi" is a household servitor, and she only works part-time in a bar.
But with the advent of exoskeletons, even some tasks that may cause damage to servitors, which were originally performed by highly prosthetic workers - such as transporting goods, packing and unloading, and disaster rescue, have begun to be equipped with exoskeletons.
Servants with enhanced exoskeletons gradually replaced them. Eventually, the unemployment wave returned to Sogo Island.
This wave was originally triggered by Russell's idea.
It was then that Russell fully realized why no one had developed such a simple technology.
It is not that all inventors ignore the needs of people's livelihood - over the past hundred years, there must have been smart people who realized this.
But they are too smart and too moral.
After analysis, the inventors realized what would happen once this technology was seen by "improvement inventors" who were less talented than themselves... so they finally chose to remain silent and did not publish this invention.
The population will not disappear out of thin air, it will only become uncoded. And uncoded people will bring social unrest.
They must realize that this is the inevitable and final future.
But they hope that they can delay this inevitable future for as long as possible, at least so that they and their children will not be involved in this wave while they are still alive.
Sally Ruth knows all this.
That’s why she tried her best to prevent Russell from binding his name to this exoskeleton. According to Russell’s original plan, it should be called the “Russell Device.” It was only after Sally Russ stopped it that it was called the “Walking Device.”
"auxiliary device".
If it were Russell now, he would definitely understand what kind of new generation it would bring. But as a "genius student", Russell, who was only 18 years old at the time, did not understand his "great invention"
Why does this happen?
At first, Russell, who was just a freshman, was even a little swollen when he saw that his invention had helped so many elderly people. At that time, Sally Ruth just covered her mouth with a fan, smiled at the corners of her eyes, and agreed slowly.
Russell's words said something like "Then we might as well wait a little longer and see other good things in the future."
...Looking back now, what he once thought was "the mentor's approval of him" was full of ridicule and eccentricity.
From this perspective, the final step of Sogo Island’s “complete automation” and the unemployment frenzy that has not ended in other islands to this day were also driven by Russell himself.
So after that, when Russell really became Sally Ruth's graduate student, he became humble. It can even be said that he felt a little inferior and confused.
In a sense, the complete transformation of his personality began with this "walking assistive device". Before that, Russell always believed that he was an outstanding genius, completely different from ordinary people in terms of talent and performance - he
Think you can change this
In this world, the Bishop’s admonitions of “guarding against arrogance and impetuosity”, “thinking twice before acting”, “thinking a few more steps before doing everything, and thinking a few more steps after your goals and results”, and “excessive
Keep in mind clichés such as "If you show off your talents, others will take advantage of you".
——Yes, among the elders Russell came into contact with, the bishop was the only one who had warned Russell many times.
Alice would never interfere with Russell's development and decisions, while Lang Yin is a standard elitist and a socialist, and Sally Ruth is a pure fun-loving person... They all have high expectations for Russell
.
At that time, the only person who could throw cold water on it was the bishop.
...It's just that he splashed a little too much.
So that in the end, Russell became the humble and low-key person he was when he first came to Happy Island, and even a little timid when things happened. It was because Russell perfectly learned the way of thinking of the bishop - the kind of thinking after the results.
The three-step way of thinking made him dare not touch this or that.
This is like a social animal who is reborn on campus one day. Although it is a beautiful, golden, carefree life... But he has completely understood the pressure of survival in the future, and he can no longer let go of it all and enjoy it.
Campus life. Every wild release and depravity will bring him strong anxiety and guilt.
This is exactly what it will become because of knowing the "future a few steps away".
This world must be sick - at that time, Russell was full of disappointment in this fallen and sinful world, and regarded himself as something "outside the world". That's why he acted like this when accepting the memories of his previous life.
He accepted it all easily...because after Alice died, he had no sense of belonging to this world.
And the person who changed Russell again was none other than Delphinium.
"If the world is sick, I would feel happy. After all, as long as it is a disease, it will be cured one day.
"Rather, what I'm afraid of is that it's not sick; what I'm afraid of is that this world should be like this - that's the deepest despair."
Those were the first words of Delphinium that were engraved in Russell's heart, the first words that moved him.
The first sentence touched Russell's heart and soothed his painful whisper.
That is the true starting point of this "love" of mutual understanding and mutual support.
Good news: My throat is no longer sore after a good night's sleep. I don't have a fever at all now. I also have runny nose and sneezing. The symptoms don't seem right. I guess it's because of a lack of sheep...
Bad news: My head still hurts, my body is still cold, I still feel weak, and for some reason the back of my neck is starting to hurt.
It might be a cold, or it might be some kind of flu. Although I feel very blue and have a headache, I haven’t caught a cold or had a fever after all. It would be too pretentious to ask for leave, so I still have to update normally...
After listening to Rihe Shuyang next door, I was in such a scary state that I couldn't write words at all... If I will definitely fall into the trap, I still hope to wait until the book is finished in February. Now I may have escaped, there are