Chapter 10 This is the best era
Samad’s lectures were very good, even better than the best lectures Chen Yuanguang had ever attended at Jiangnan University.

The good here refers to the fullness of emotions. He can hear the emotions of the literary stage and the emotional preferences of different historical literary works from Samad’s lectures.

One can hear a yearning for the feelings of the authors of that era.

It is very difficult to achieve this simply by lecturing.

Generally, to achieve this effect, it is necessary to rely on movies, music, pictures, lighting, and atmosphere to convey emotions to the audience more accurately.

Chen Yuanguang admired Samad for being able to achieve this effect in a casual setting, and thought that he was worthy of being a professor at a university in modern society.

Samad took a sip of water and said, "Today's lecture ends here. Next time we will talk about various popular literary works of the 21st century. In addition, I will push some book lists to your campus account later. If you are interested, you can download them and take a look."

Chen Yuanguang smiled and nodded, "Okay, I will definitely take a look when I have time.

Professor, next time when you talk about popular literature, could you focus on science fiction works or more specifically science fiction mysteries?
I am more interested in this kind of work.”

Chen Yuanguang hopes that Samad can recommend some science fiction and mystery works so that he can draw inspiration from them.

Samad obviously misunderstood Chen Yuanguang's meaning, "Are you trying to find the murderer behind your father?"

Chen Yuanguang was surprised. Did the other party also know about this? "Professor, have you heard about it too?
I remember the media reported the rare car accident near the Jile Temple, and they probably didn't use real names. As for linking it to me, that would be even harder, right?"

Samad waved his hand, indicating that this was a piece of cake for him: "The news is blocked for the lower levels, but for the upper levels, who doesn't know that the younger generation of the Chen family of Yingchuan Hall has been killed?
I just complained about Chen Dingsong. I have also met your father. I met him when he was still a police inspector and I went to talk to them about high-tech crimes.

Your features are very similar to his, plus your last name is Chen, isn't this an easy guess?"

Samad shook his head and said, "Buddhism says that all appearances are false, and all phenomena are like dreams and bubbles.

The same is true for death. Everything in the world, the cycle of life and death, everything has a destiny.

The people outside the Pure Land Temple died in bliss, and the same was true inside the Pure Land Temple.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, it's all bullshit. There is no such thing as a certainty. Only what happens is a certainty. If you could go back to the past, you would definitely be able to prevent your father's death.

It is only now that the result has happened that it has become a certainty, not that it would have been a certainty even if it had not happened.

Science fiction reasoning cannot help you solve the problem. If you want to find the real murderer behind the scenes, you need the power of Alpha.

Can you tell me the details briefly? "

Chen Yuanguang changed the subject: "Professor, I want to do this on my own."

He didn't know much about the background of this old man with typical Southeast Asian appearance, so Chen Yuanguang didn't want to reveal too much.

He was not at all interested in tracking down the murderer.

Samad had changed from standing to sitting cross-legged, and when he was reciting the Buddhist verse just now, he had the demeanor of a charlatan.

Samad shrugged, “Well, you have to believe that Alpha can do anything if he wants to.

Except for Alpha, other methods will have loopholes, and even a true trial may not be able to find the truth. "

After saying the last sentence, Samad seemed mysterious, as if he knew something. Chen Yuanguang wanted to ask more, but the thought quickly faded away. He had plenty of time to interact with this old man, and this matter was not a high priority.

He always had a feeling that the people he met, from Chen Yonglin to Shi Huilan to Samad, were always intentionally or unintentionally leading him towards finding the real murderer. The more this was the case, the more he didn't want to do it.

"Professor, I'm curious, isn't the society created by Alpha a good one? Even the poorest people can get a living security, with food, clothing, housing and transportation all guaranteed.

Humans can obtain clothing, food, housing, medical care, etc. without working. Compared with before, human living standards and average life expectancy have greatly improved, and the average working hours have been greatly reduced.

I can hear contempt and dissatisfaction towards Alpha from your words, why is that?"

When you don't want to follow the track set for you by others, you have to open up a new path.

Of course, this is indeed the topic that Chen Yuanguang is curious about. Even an intellectual like Samad may have backgrounds that he is not aware of and his views on Alpha.

"Is it really okay? Maybe not?

It couldn’t be more appropriate to use a line from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Samad stood up from his cross-legged chair, waving his arms like a madman.

He read Dickens's famous saying in the original English.

“This is the best of times for individuals, and the worst of times for humanity.

Individuals do not need to work, nor can they find jobs, and there are no jobs available for them. They can completely immerse themselves in all kinds of pacifiers. The extreme development of AI has made pacifiers flood the entire platform. Movies, TV series, and games are popping up like they are free. Even if human life expectancy is extended, they still cannot keep up with the games.

AI creates thousands of 3A masterpieces for everyone to play. Those that are popular enough with a large number of users can be developed into series, and if a series is unpopular, there will be new series.

This is just a game. All kinds of best-selling works of commercial writing are enough to keep a person busy until death. AI cannot experience emotions, but it can make arrangements and combinations, and can always create works with emotions and be selected by humans.

AI creates literary works, and humans filter out those that are full of emotion. We don’t need real writers. The world’s best-selling human writers date back to the 21st century.

Nipple happiness has been developed to its peak by AI, and there is no need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation. This is undoubtedly the best era for individuals.

After seeing the society that Alpha has created for humanity, I realized that in the past cyberpunks, the lower class lived an extremely miserable life, relying on painkillers and hallucinogens to survive. How high would it cost to maintain the stability of such a society?

Now that energy is almost unlimited and after the explosion of productivity, it is almost zero cost for AI to feed these humans. The best way is to provide them with material security and milk-sugar.

The cyberpunk setting is that society is not stable enough. "

Samad seemed extremely excited. He said so many words in one breath that Chen Yuanguang even suspected that he was out of breath.

Chen Yuanguang thought it was good at first, but as he listened more he felt something was not right. According to his knowledge structure, if it was so easy to obtain without any effort, it would be easy for people to feel empty.

It’s just like when you do nothing at home during your college summer vacation and just lie at home every day. You feel great at first, but you will also quickly feel empty.

Moreover, the human beings on Earth in this time and space will lie there for a hundred years.

Chen Yuanguang felt a chill at the thought.

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(End of this chapter)