Cyber Heroes

This should be a story that everyone of my generation...ah, maybe my uncle's generation knows. For previous generations, this memory was often accompanied by places like "Internet cafes".

This is a story from a certain work of Blizzard. In this story, in a certain magical world, some kind of "natural disaster" suddenly appeared - a natural disaster that can make the living sick and die, and the dead resurrected and turned into monsters. The leader of the natural disaster is called the "Lich King".

Many years later, a hero led several companions to the throne of the Lich King and put an end to the evil leader. But at this time, the heroic spirit of a deceased person suddenly told the hero that if the Lich King died, the natural disaster would be completely out of control and the earth would be devastated.

Therefore, "There must be a Lich King."

I sometimes think that we actually live in a world full of undead.

Really, no exaggeration at all.

Just when people seem to be busy transforming themselves and the things around them, creating things that have never been done before, and whenever the world sees the dawn of progress, the power of those undead emerges. They live in language, culture, and society. They are the will of God and the remnants of ancestors.

A certain philosopher said: "The traditions of all dead ancestors haunt the minds of the living like a nightmare."

And when change comes, those who resist change will call upon the spirits of the dead to serve them, borrowing their names, battle slogans, and clothes so that they can wear this long-revered clothing and use this borrowed language. Come and let the story of the undead come to life again.

The spirits of the dead will tell you through their mouths, "What has been will be done again; what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun."

They would say, “This is how our ancestors have lived for generations.”

The undead bind my life. All I saw was darkness in front of me.

I realized this a long time ago when I looked at those "Lich Kings" walking in the world exuding the decaying aura of the undead.

"There must be a Lich King." I once again stated my opinion to my friend.

These people are my friends, my partners. I stayed at this research institution affiliated with the United Nations University for seven years. During these seven years, I communicated with them and learned a lot. I am also convinced of their position and their aspirations. I believe they will support me in the end.

"You're really crazy, man." Another man with a golden mustache stood up and pressed his hands down to signal me to calm down: "I can probably understand. You must be very disappointed with this society, yes, I Occasionally. However, we can march, protest, publicize, and organize social movements..." The man pointed at the "Dark Warrior" behind me: "Look at him..."

"There is no doubt that I am a failure." "Black Warrior" said helplessly: "So far, I have not succeeded in convincing any academic institution or library to make them willing to open their knowledge to the public - the only thing that affirms my The only ones with activist status are the FBI. That’s why our director convinced me.”

This “Dark Warrior” dude is committed to the open access movement—a social movement that opposes the “privatization of knowledge.”

"Ah, yes." I nodded: "Some people have been doing this since the 19th century. A person who wants to change the world will often choose this path. There were many great people in the past who did this. They Some failed, some achieved certain achievements but had their fruits stolen by the undead, and some achieved brilliant achievements but ran out of life before the final victory - then the next question is, are you a politician? You How are your speaking skills? Do you have the ability to communicate with the public?”

"What?"

"Those great pioneers were professionals in this direction. What about us? We are just professionals in another direction. We are scholars, cynics, nerds - even if I let the first half of my life now If all your efforts are in vain, what can you do if you change your career to change the world like a politician? Do you think you have leadership skills that those pioneers did not have?" I asked back: "Of course I want to use what we can Do it in a way that changes the world - not that I want to do it, but as stupid as I am, I can only find this way."

"Yes, you are indeed such a person." My girl jumped up and blocked my view: "You know what I hate the most..."

"To be precise, it's the third most annoying thing." I smiled at her: "You hate that Microsoft is distorting your beloved geek culture - they even changed the definition of 'open source' in the eyes of ordinary people."

"Hey, now that you know..."

"Then have you ever thought that one day, you can legally upload the source code of Windows to anywhere you want?" I said: "They are powerful enough to distort the industry's ecology, so we might as well distort it." itself."

The girl raised her eyebrows: "By doing the same thing? What you are going to create is an unprecedented monopoly group!"

"Please call it 'something unprecedented'." I shook my head: "Again, I will not ask anyone to hide any paper. I hope that there will be a research institution that will 'all results'." Online open access is written into the charter. The only reason we apply for a patent is to make it open to ensure that no one monopolizes the patent."

"What I want to do is something that has never been done before. It has never happened before in history, and it may be a unique 'new thing'."

The girl clasped her hands on her chest: "Can you guarantee that you won't become a new evil dragon?"

"That's why I need you..." I looked at her, and then at the other people in the room: "And everyone. We will be each other's guarantee against deterioration."

"What we have to do is not to completely control power and power, nor to create a group. We are just participating in a game, getting the resources of those people, researching the achievements we expect, and then entrusting it to humans to change this world. world." I closed my eyes and whispered: "We will steal the fire of heaven from the strong who make the rules and give the fire to the poor."

Another man stood up angrily: "Okay, that's enough. Stop it. Everyone can leave. This is just a madman."

He pointed at me.

"I guess you also asked Zhu for help, blocking the surveillance and so on. But I can tell you, friend, you don't have to do this. Even if you say your opinion, no one will be offended, let alone no one. Accusing you of betrayal - they'll just think you're crazy."

"If you don't build technological advantages, how are you going to make a profit?"

I nodded: "This is exactly why I blocked the surveillance - you know, you need money to do research. Now the money is in the hands of those powerful people. If they think I am unreliable, Then I might not have the chance to access those resources. As I said, my ultimate goal is to 'steal the sky fire' - I don't have the talent for 'stealing'. If you don't hide yourself, it doesn't count as 'stealing' .”

"The things in the 'tent' over there have such power. Do you understand? In this fair and just world, the knowledge created here will only make the strong stronger in a fair and just way. We, The method that people can choose is to use our own way to guide the direction of this trend. This direction!"

"We come to control the power of the 'Lich King'. We come to rewrite mankind's common imagination of the 'world' - we come to create a new culture!"

"I emphasize again - my purpose is not to create a super chaebol. That doesn't matter. Companies or anything else are just chickens that lay eggs. I just want to trick rich people into feeding the chickens and then give the eggs to the beggars. Mud legs."

"What about the ethical issues?" The sister who first questioned "Dark Warrior" fell into deep thought. Her expression softened now.

"According to the data mentioned in that document, you may be able to increase the average life span of the rich by two hundred years..."

"This is a necessary sacrifice," I said.

The woman seemed confused.

"This is a necessary sacrifice." I pointed to the slide behind me: "Look at this, look at it! The core point of it is not 'resistance to damage', but 'replacing ATP hydrolysis through electric fields'! This Yeast is an autotrophic organism! It is an unprecedented 'electroautotrophic' organism!"

Organisms can be roughly divided into "autotrophic" and "heterotrophic" types. The so-called "heterotrophic" refers to all "organisms that directly or indirectly feed on autotrophs." In addition to "heterotrophs", there are "autotrophs" - organisms that can survive without eating other organisms.

Plants are typical "photoautotrophs". Herbivores that eat plants and carnivores that eat herbivores are both heterotrophs.

Although there are "green leaf sea slugs" that can plunder chloroplasts from plants for photosynthesis, most organisms can be classified this way.

Yeast is a typical heterotrophic eukaryote. Its physiological process is to decompose sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide to obtain energy. Sugar is the product of plant physiological activities.

However, the yeast used for display has been modified to be autotrophic.

"If it succeeds, humans can be freed from agriculture. A person can survive with only two kilowatt hours of electricity a day."

"According to my country's price for two kilowatt hours of electricity, it will not exceed 1.5 RMB, which is less than 22 cents. If it is done based on the industrial base of the United States, this can even be reduced to 12 cents."

"Drink some more water and add some inorganic supplements. Humanity will completely get out of the shackles of carbohydrates."

The woman pointed at the PPT: "Don't you have eyes? This yeast can only rely on this method to reduce consumption by ten percent!"

"That's what needs to be studied further."