Level 3 Civilization

Leaving aside the cautionary tale of the Moke Star Civilization, the recent Artificial Intelligence disaster of the Nair Civilization is still fresh in everyone's memory, so the New Government cannot possibly be at ease.

So now there's only one way out, and that's to bite the bullet and build another Supercomputer.

Unlike scientists in other fields, all scientists in the Computer Field agreed with this choice because they firmly believed that technological preventative measures were not unfounded, and that they could definitely find them as long as there were control groups and experimental subjects.

In order to persuade the New Government to agree to and increase investment in building new Supercomputer, they even came up with an impeccable reason.

Essentially, it means that we're now on the verge of disaster and must continue, otherwise all the previous research investment will have been wasted. If we don't continue investing, humanity may be left with only an unstable, Strong Artificial Intelligence in the future.

Furthermore, there is another very important point: since everyone believes that 'Mind Imprint' can be achieved, why can't technical methods to prevent Strong Artificial Intelligence be achieved? The former is even more absurd than the latter, since the former affects real life!

Yue Yuan recalled that when this reason was presented at the seminar, all the opponents fell silent.

Yes, that makes sense. If 'Mind Imprint' is possible, there's no reason why the technological methods for preventing Strong Artificial Intelligence from rebelling cannot be implemented! As a result, in the following period, Human Civilization embarked on another round of large-scale construction projects, and scientific research efforts and resources were tilted towards this research field.

In the midst of this vigorous development, Nanotechnology has made new breakthroughs.

This time, humanity has pushed the technology to the Femtometer level, which is one millionth of a nanometer.

With the support of precision manufacturing technology, humans have successfully created even smaller control modules, thus realizing the manufacture of true Nanobots.

Of course, it's still a bit short of creating tiny individual robots like the fog. The technology level has been reached, but the process hasn't. However, Nanobots that are as small as ants are technically feasible to produce.

A robot the size of an ant has an internal structure that is thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of times smaller than the size of an ant. This is because Nanobots are not only small, but they must also be fully functional, including energy systems, functional systems, and operating modes, in order to give Nanobots various functions.

The most critical technological breakthrough is the technology to break chemical covalent bonds and metallic bonds.

In fact, the technology of breaking chemical bonds has existed since Earth Era, but it was not as futuristic as it is now, nor was it as easy to achieve as the technology we have today.

In that era, people had several ways to break chemical bonds.

One method is radiation, which uses energy such as ultraviolet rays, X-rays, and neutron beams to break the chemical bonds in molecules. This method can break the chemical bonds in different materials such as organic, inorganic, metals, and ligands.

The second method is photoelectrochemical method, which uses special photoelectrochemical reactions to break specific chemical bonds. Its advantage is high flexibility, and it can be used to destroy or modify specific molecules.

This method is still used in modern chemical synthesis industries.

There is also photolysis, which is a typical method that uses energy release to break the chemical bonds in molecules. In layman's terms, it is a chemical reaction. There are also methods that use Ultrasound or beams to destroy biological macromolecules.

That said, the unit of distance for metallic bonds is angstrom, and one angstrom is equal to one-tenth of a nanometer. After another breakthrough in human technology in the microscopic field, it was discovered in an accidental experiment that radiation of certain specific frequencies can break metallic bonds.

It's worth mentioning that this type of radiation has a very short duration and effective range. To use its principles to create science fiction weapons like 'Fission Cannon' or 'Phase Cannon' would probably require altering the laws of cosmology.

However, scientists have discovered that if this technology is used on Nanobots, it would create a swarm of nanobots or Grey Goo Storm.

After these technologies emerged, scientists were certain that these were the same technologies that the Silver Mist Consciousness possessed when it was a mining robot.

However, since humanity has only recently entered this field, it cannot yet create technology like the Silver Mist, which can sever metallic bonds and covalent bonds in compounds and transport elemental metals. Currently, human scientists can only achieve decomposition.

In other words, the Nanobots created by humans will only cause destruction. To use them for mining, more functions and more intelligent control will need to be added.

As for its use as a weapon, humans felt it was rather inadequate. It fell far short of the imagined Grey Goo Storm, mainly because the swarms of nanobots had extremely poor mobility.

If a swarm of nanobots were thrown directly at an enemy ship, it wouldn't be able to keep up with the ship's speed, let alone devour it.

So if we really want to use 'nano swarms' as weapons, the best way is to load them into the shells of Electromagnetic Railgun and fire them out, then spray them out after they get close to the enemy ship.

Many military experts consider this design redundant. They feel it would be better to simply use Armor-Piercing Shells- piercing hydrogen bomb warhead directly, as is the case now!

However, some people don't think so. On the contrary, they believe that this Electromagnetic Railgun is useful. For example, it can withstand armor as strong as the Lyra, which can Armor-Piercing Shells hydrogen bomb warheads, but it still belongs to the category of alloys.

As long as the material is still connected by chemical bonds, it can be destroyed by 'nano swarms' unless the laws of cosmology change.

Therefore, these people believe that 'nano swarms' can be used as weapons and are even necessary.

Yue Yuan, who had a great passion for weapons, also agreed with this view, so he approved the proposal after Nanobots were actually realized.

The Military Industry Department was equally decisive; once the plan was approved, they immediately began manufacturing. After the first batch of 'nano swarms' was produced, they simply named them Grey Goo Storm.

The name owes a great deal to Yi Kai, the Zero Zero Generation biologist who is still alive today.

The emergence of the Grey Goo Storm marks a crucial step forward for humanity in True Nanotechnology. Coupled with the success of Strong Artificial Intelligence, humanity can be considered to have stepped into the threshold of Level 3 Civilization.

Once the methods for defending against the rebellion of Strong Artificial Intelligence are mastered, humanity will inevitably liberate productivity directly and completely, then fully realize the unmanned operation of various manufacturing industries, and the entire society will enter a stage of fully automated production.

After that, no human involvement will be needed for resource extraction, engineering construction, equipment production, or even warship manufacturing. Humans will only need to provide Strong Artificial Intelligence with blueprints, creative methods, and the like.

Of course, the creation of all new things still requires human participation at least once. After that, a record is left for Strong Artificial Intelligence, so that humans will no longer need to do it themselves.

It can be said that the emergence of Strong Artificial Intelligence is one of the hallmarks of mastering True Nanotechnology, and its emergence will in turn promote the development of True Nanotechnology, complementing each other.

It is foreseeable that once Strong Artificial Intelligence is truly applied, all the remote-controlled robots and devices previously used by humans will become obsolete. At most, they will be used on human spaceships for purposes like traveling to planets to see the sights.

Even without 'nano swarms' for mining, human resource extraction can be completely automated in the future.

When Strong Artificial Intelligence is applied to human society, the entire social structure and lifestyle will undergo significant changes.

First, people who used to do manual labor will no longer have to work, and various robot operators will also lose their jobs. Many people in the Engineering Department will lose their jobs as a result, especially those working in the machinery manufacturing industry.

Humans have even created 'nano swarms', and various complex processes that previously required manual operation by humans will also be replaced by specialized robots.

If the New Government fully liberalizes Strong Artificial Intelligence and related technologies, human society will face a major transformation, but it will also be a revolution in productivity.

Admittedly, many people will be left idle in such changes, but if we want to develop, we must face the impact of new technologies. History tells us that stagnation and complacency will inevitably lead to self-destruction.

Years passed.

Because the creation of 'Silver Mist' has never been achieved, humanity refers to the current stage of Human Civilization as the initial stage of Level 3 Civilization.

The reason for this perception is not only that they cannot create 'Silver Mist' themselves, but also that human scientists have seen many derivative technologies that humanity has failed to master.

Besides that, there's the ability to navigate.

Human scientists have discovered that Human Civilization has not achieved a breakthrough in travel speed from 30% to 50% of the speed of light due to True Nanotechnology.

Scientists believe that this is because humanity has only recently entered Level 3 Civilization, and many related technologies have not yet been fully mastered, so a way to increase speed has not yet been found.

Based on past experience, an advancement in civilization level will inevitably lead to qualitative changes in all areas of the entire civilization.

However, apart from the 'Grey Goo Storm' created by Strong Artificial Intelligence and True Nano Technology, other creations are still at the previous stage. For example, the weapon system of the warships has only one Electromagnetic Railgun shell with the 'Grey Goo Storm' warhead attached.

The defense system is alright, after all, the iconic Energy Shield, supported by True Nano Technology, has completely enveloped the entire warship, making it a true Energy Shield.

However, the detection methods are still at the level of Level 2 Civilization, relying on Neutrino Detection and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna for detecting Gravitational Wave.

Another crucial aspect is speed. Whether it's transitioning from the home planet era to Tier 1 Civilization or from Tier 1 Civilization to Level 2 Civilization, energy utilization is a process of continuous improvement.

The speed of interstellar travel has been increasing step by step, but humanity has not.

This is why many people say that humanity has not yet truly entered Level 3 Civilization.