The awakening ceremony came to a close.
Lü Yongchang returned to the [Earth] as well-for safety, and to ensure the precision of the experiments, most laboratories were still housed aboard the [Earth].
He sat beside the porthole in his office and turned to look outside.
One home ship after another docked in synchronous orbit around Kepler-452b. Small shuttles and space elevators operated at full capacity, carrying batches of people awakened from cryosleep down to the surface.
Zero planned everything methodically.
Under the awakening plan provided by the School of Sociology, the awakening program for those in cryosleep still followed the usual practice, determining their awakening order by their contribution points.
Most of those in cryosleep had been asleep for several hundred years, and some had even slept for a millennium.
An enormous gulf separated their knowledge from that of present-day Human Civilization. Some still possessed only the knowledge of the level two or even level one civilization era. This was unavoidable.
To address this, the School of Sociology and Parliament jointly launched the Universal Basic Education Initiative on Kepler-452b-after awakening, every person who had been in cryosleep first had to undergo one to ten years of basic education.
As with education under the social communal child-rearing system, both the content and duration were tailored to each individual's choices and aptitude.
This seemed to have become an inevitable part of civilization's development.
Not everyone was Lü Yongchang. Given Human Civilization's vast, complex technological framework, almost no one could master every aspect of it.
For 99.99% of people, these novel high-tech marvels were mostly things they knew how to use without understanding why they worked.
But as long as 0.01% could distinguish themselves, that was enough.
Once the communal child-rearing system became fully operational and the population surged, even a mere 0.0001%