Learning Costs
Leaving a portion of the Kuntai People to conduct research, while ensuring their safety, would play a vital role in the development of biology.
Because humanity has come to know that after the Kuntai People complete the transformation from Kun to Tai, their overall quality will be greatly improved. This overall quality includes not only physical fitness, but also vision, hearing, memory, and intelligence.
If humanity can glean some insights from this and apply them to itself, then humanity might be comprehensively enhanced once again.
Memory enhancement is not a dream.
From the database of the Kun-Tai Civilization, humanity learned that the Kun-Tai Civilization was far behind humanity in Biotechnology. Therefore, even though human scientists knew that the Kun-Tai Civilization had done a lot of research in this area but had not made much progress, they were still very confident.
Putting aside other factors, human technology in terms of lifespan and genes far surpasses that of the Kuntai People.
Once we find the gene fragment that enhances the overall qualities of the Kuntai People, humanity is confident that we can make some progress in research. Of course, we'll have to remove the unnecessary functions.
Therefore, this requires humans to fully understand the Gene Map of the Kuntai People and then, just like with human genes, to understand the function of each pair of bases, which is undoubtedly a huge undertaking.
Fortunately, the Kuntai People have also studied their own genes, so humans don't need to start from scratch; they just need to stand on the shoulders of the Kuntai People and continue climbing.
Of course, that being said, the project is still extremely arduous. Furthermore, humanity already faces a population shortage, and now with the addition of Kuntai's scientific system, the shortage of talent in various fields has become even more severe.
Recently, almost every laboratory, research institute, and Research Institute has been recruiting interns.
In addition to practical subjects, the Ministry of Education also updated human learning materials based on various scientific theories obtained from the data of the Kun-Tai Civilization.
Many theories and technical descriptions were supplemented, and various Credits were further developed during this period, which made human textbooks much thicker.
The accumulation of knowledge has led to a flourishing scene in science, with several scientific teams often attempting to make breakthroughs in a single Credits.
That's right, the number of scientists and Research Personnel is still in short supply, but overall there is still an upward trend.
And it is precisely because knowledge has increased that the cost of learning for humans has also increased.
If a person starts formal schooling at the age of five and graduates from university at the age of twenty-two, they can only be considered to have learned some basic scientific knowledge. If they want to become a person who is useful to the development of human science, they must continue to learn.
In other words, the original university curriculum is no longer keeping up with the pace of scientific development.
According to the Ministry of Education's estimate, if a person were to acquire the knowledge of the most cutting-edge sciences after completing their studies, it would take at least fifty years of study at a normal pace.
In other words, this person didn't actually graduate and start working until he was fifty-five years old.
For the first forty years, he broadly explored and learned about various Credits. In the last fifteen years, he began to pursue advanced studies in a branch he was good at, and then continued to practice in society, and pursued postgraduate and doctoral degrees. Only in this way could he keep up with the most cutting-edge scientific and technological advancements in humankind.
It's conceivable that if science and technology continue to advance, even more technological branches will emerge, and more advanced knowledge will be created. At that point, study time will increase even further.
The Ministry of Education predicts that if human intelligence and memory are not improved, the amount of knowledge that needs to be learned will increase over time, and it will take humans a much longer time to learn, possibly hundreds of years.
Fortunately, human lifespan has increased significantly, so this problem is not yet critical.
However, some people worry that when technology develops to a certain level, there might be a bottleneck where humans will not be able to learn the latest knowledge in their lifetime.
If this were the case, then humanity would never make any further progress in scientific development.
This is possible, although it seems too early for such a scenario to materialize. However, it serves as a reminder that in the future, we must use science and technology to make ourselves more advanced. Scientific progress is not just a matter for physics; it also requires mathematics, philosophy, and many other disciplines to lead the way.
The increased study time has forced the New Government to adjust the education system.
In addition to adjusting the textbooks, the class hours for each stage also need to be adjusted.
The division remains unchanged, still divided into three stages: small, medium, and large. However, the learning time for each stage has significantly increased. Based on the depth of knowledge covered, the learning time for each of the three stages has increased to varying degrees.
Therefore, a new human being who wants to enter a cutting-edge technology branch and become a member must at least be a graduate student, while a 55-year-old college graduate is basically considered a skilled talent in society.
Lacking the ability to enter cutting-edge research fields, they became the main force in production.
The increased learning costs, on the other hand, led the New Government to make many changes to previous policies. For example, the conditions for using Longevity Potion, which previously required having offspring, were relaxed somewhat.
After all, if no changes are made, then people who are still in school will have children. They won't even be able to support themselves, let alone their offspring. If they have to wait until they graduate to use their children, then almost everyone's appearance will be frozen at over fifty years old.
This is unacceptable to society; no one can bear to live for hundreds of years with a frail, aging body.
Therefore, the New Government allows humans to have the right to use the Life Elixir 1.0 after reaching adulthood, which will allow humans to be fixed in a certain age range for two hundred years.
A young body means youthful vitality and abundant energy, which is also helpful for learning.
Life Elixir 2.0, on the other hand, still uses having offspring as the standard for measuring practical power.
After all, the human population is still less than five million, which is still very small, and the policy of increasing the population needs to continue to be implemented.
Time passed slowly as they dealt with various postwar matters.
It took humanity two whole years to fully digest the data in the Kun-Tai Civilization database. It was at this time that Yi Kai, beaming with pride, found Yue Yuan.
"Chief, we have reached a conclusion on the genetic study of memory among the Kuntai People. Over the past two years, we have screened approximately 30,000 Kuntai People for research, mainly focusing on their newborns. We conducted various observations and tests from multiple perspectives, but found no signs of genetic memory."