Chapter 1029: Nutrient Solution

Yang Qingfeng was speechless, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

After walking out of the study, he hesitated a bit, but still, when Yang Qing was alone, he told him the matter.

"Grandpa, do you think my great-uncle's approach is reliable?"

Yang Qing turned his head and glanced at him.

He did not answer directly.

Instead, he began to think about the future human energy intake problem.

Whether to develop the Three-Dimensional Farm or to research synthetic food.

Just like the now mature research of synthesizing starch from carbon dioxide.

With technological progress, the food humans can synthesize should keep increasing.

This way, the two will inevitably come into conflict.

Ultimately, is the Three-Dimensional Farm more valuable, or is synthetic food more valuable?

This involves research difficulty, cost, and future demand.

With the development of human society, the digestive system will inevitably become a burden hindering human progress.

"Illness enters through the mouth," referring to the harm diet does to the body.

If there were a nutrient solution that is easier to digest, low in toxins, and more beneficial to the body.

Will humanity in the future still need such a complex digestive system as it has now?

The degeneration of the human digestive system should be a major trend.

Nutrient solution should also be a mainstream future energy replenishment technology.

It is more conducive to bodily absorption, places less burden on the body, and replenishes energy more quickly.

It can be said to have many benefits.

The distinction should be whether this nutrient solution mainly uses artificial synthesis or extraction from plants and animals.

If using plant and animal extracts, then Three-Dimensional Farm technology becomes very important.

If mainly using artificial synthesis, then the farm would seem somewhat superfluous.

Based on Yang Qing's experience, initially it should mainly use plant and animal extracts.

Later it should develop to mainly rely on artificial synthesis.

Because of industrialization, it is more efficient, and even the cost could be lower.

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Qing looked at Yang Qingfeng.

"What do you think will be the main way for future humans to replenish energy?"

Yang Qingfeng's expression froze for a moment, then he thought of something.

"Grandpa, are you saying that future humans' eating habits will undergo a major change?"

Yang Qing still did not answer him, but instead continued to ask.

"Do you think it's more efficient for humans to use energy, or for robots?"

This time Yang Qingfeng instantly understood Yang Qing's meaning.

The Yang family has long known that robots will inevitably replace humans to become the dominant intelligent life.

This generation of theirs has been striving to explore this idea, researching biological Crystal Elements, brain-machine interfaces, bodily mechanization technology, and auxiliary intelligent brain systems deeply bound to the human brain.

However, a core that civilization's development can never be separated from is the utilization of energy.

Some even use the degree of energy development to classify civilizations into levels.

This not only refers to humanity's utilization of various energies, but also implies the way humans themselves utilize energy.

The higher humanity's own utilization of energy, to some extent it also represents the level of human wisdom.

The means by which carbon-based life transfers and uses energy will in the future profoundly affect the wisdom limit of an individual human.

Even if humans can use external devices to some extent improve their information-processing ability.

But external things are always external, and there remains a gap compared to what one inherently possesses.

So, will humanity in the future still maintain its eating habits?

Continuing to do so will inevitably fail to enhance the body's capabilities.

Not maintaining it, future humans will need to find a more efficient way to replenish bodily energy.

Yang Qingfeng naturally thought of the nutrient solution.

Opening a bottle of nutrient solution can complete energy replenishment in just a few seconds.

Even to some extent, it is more efficient than current charging.

"Grandpa, is that what you mean?"

"Grandpa, for now we still have an advantage."

"But if in the future nuclear fusion technology matures and micro nuclear fusion devices become widespread, we will then have no advantage left."

"After all, they could replace a battery once and use it for a lifetime."

"Just like Iron Man's micro reactor."

"This is completely incomparable."

"No matter how the human body is modified, it cannot catch up."

"Grandpa, are you saying that humanity in the future will inevitably pursue a more efficient and lasting way of obtaining energy?"

"And then use this trend to infer the future trend of agriculture?"

Yang Qing nodded, and he was still quite satisfied with this child, Yang Qingfeng.

Although a bit inexperienced, he is still an outstanding member of the younger generation of the Yang family.

"I have said before that with the arrival of the intelligent era, humanity will once again face a technological explosion."

After all, the development of technology is a progress in computing power and summarization and induction ability.

Before, human computing power relied on the human brain, which is various experiences and mathematical induction. Later, humans learned to use computing devices. Now human computing power has developed to a very high level, directly driving the birth of Artificial Intelligence.

And Artificial Intelligence is the culmination of experience, information processing, and mathematics.

It will directly boost the explosion of technology.

Because, human science has never been created; science is merely discovered when seeking the world rules that already exist.

Compared to humans, Artificial Intelligence with super computing power has a greater advantage in this kind of discovery.

In the coming decades, it will be an era of rapid technological development.

It is also the era when robots are truly born.

Humans will be in a disadvantaged position due to competition.

Faced with disadvantage, humans will inevitably seek change.

Biological Crystal Element, brain-machine interface, auxiliary computer, etc., are just one of them.

And improving one's own energy efficiency will also be a direction.

Traditional eating habits will likely be gradually phased out in the not-too-distant future.

Nutrient solution is likely to become a trend.

As for the acquisition of nutrients, I think initially it will be through extracting fresh plants and animals.

After all, synthetic things all share a common problem: low absorption.

Natural absorption rate is higher.

Moreover, before technology matures, the cost of artificial synthesis will certainly be higher than that of cultivation.

High-efficiency farming will certainly be a pursuit for a period of time in the future.

And Three-Dimensional Farm is likely to be the foundation for the popularization of nutrient solution.

After all, food grown on ordinary land, with pesticide residues, GMOs, etc., will be a major problem.

Cannot use pesticides, cannot use GMOs, and must also be sufficiently standardized.

For now, only a closed-type Three-Dimensional Farm can possibly meet this condition.

Otherwise, the quality of the nutrient solution would be hard to guarantee.

After all, current pesticides, fertilizers, various hormones, or technology and harsh practices, constantly emerging, are all massive pollution for the nutrient solution.

If one is not careful, one won't know whether what is produced is nutrient solution or poison.