Cyber Heroes

Xiang Shan truly believes that additive construction 3D printing can change the pattern of human industry.

The pattern of human industry will inevitably move toward "gathering", and monopoly will be very easy to emerge. The reason is "mass production."

The benefits of mass production are too great.

When human resources, capital, information, technology, and economic entities gather in a region, they can produce a special effect of "1=1>2". Due to the expansion of the scale of the production organization, all production lines can share the technology provided by a research and development organization, and the cost of salt production is flattened. When purchasing materials on a large scale, prices can also be kept down.

In short, there are many benefits.

Of course, there is another point-a large number of manpower can realize the specialization and division of labor of personnel, improve efficiency, and therefore reduce costs.

Adam Smith completed the study of "division of labor" in Economics, and Charles Babbage, a mathematician, further developed it. In the end, in the hands of Henry Ford, the "god of the beautiful New World", this system evolved into the final form-the assembly line.

From a scientific point of view, Babbage proposed that the division of labor can reduce the skills that each worker has. This saves the time for workers to learn new skills, saves the consumption of the employee's learning process, saves the time from one process to another process, and saves the time required to change tools. In this way, a worker only needs to repeat simple labor to quickly improve the proficiency of labor skills.

But Mr. Babbage may not have expected how Henry Ford would practice this theory.

The big capitalists divided Ford's Model T production into 7882 different processes. Among them, 949 requires "strong and well-conditioned male workers", 3338 requires "general manual workers"; other procedures can be completed by "women or older teenagers"; and "workers without legs can For the 670 processes, a worker with one leg can do 2,637, a person without hands can do two, a person with one hand can do 715, and blind can do 10."

Ah, Of course, there is one more thing that should not be forgotten in particular.

Mr. Babbage is an expert in machinery. Before the electrical age, the mathematician was planning to make "machines that can calculate" and "machines that can run automatically."

Therefore, Babbage also made a very important point-because the tasks of a single worker have become simpler, "after the division of labor, it is easier to design more exquisite and suitable tools and machines, thereby improving Labor productivity".

It is not the machine that leads to mass production, but because humans have discovered that "mass production" is very profitable, so industrial machines are designed in accordance with the requirements of mass production.

Everything in the modern factory system revolves around the theme of "mass production". Henry Ford's discipline of grand disciples practiced Babbage's theory in the cruelest way.

Even this form of labor will completely destroy the value of workers.

Workers do not need to know what they are doing, they only need to rely on muscle memory to repeat the work. Therefore, it is difficult for him to realize the meaning of his work. In this way, it is simply killing the worker's enthusiasm for work, and at the same time cutting off the growth channels for his labor skills.

Until a machine completely replaced the worker's job.

Xiang Shan thinks so.

So, although he felt that Yoggmov's argumentation process was a bit jumpy, the concept of "machines should be public" is a bright spot.

People should not exploit people, but people can squeeze machines. Produced by machines and enjoyed by humans-this is the "bright future" that is most likely to be realized in the imagination. Machines liberate people from heavy repetitive work. Humans can use learning to improve themselves, express themselves with creativity, and maintain themselves with entertainment.

Of course, the premise of all this must be "everyone can obtain what is produced by the machine", and it must be "the goal of machine production must be controlled by the public".

But it is not easy, because as long as the "scale effect" is still there, then industrial agglomeration, totalitarianism, monopoly, overproduction, and major crises will inevitably be continuously created.

Xiang Shan believes that as long as "centralized production" has advantages, those problems are inevitable.

However, 3D printing does have some such potential.

The production lines are all specialized. A production line that produces screws may not be able to produce nuts. Because the materials, molds, lathes, etc. required for the two products are different. If a production line produces screws and nuts, it is necessary to switch part of the production equipment while switching the production products.

At this time, it is better to have two production lines.

Therefore, materials are often transported from the smelter to the production lines in different places, and then transported to the destination through various complicated logistics.

But 3D printing is different. If the technology is more mature, it should be able to make anything from the rough metal processed by small smelting equipment.

For 3D printing, the cost of production is only model data, raw materials, and smelting costs. Excluding abrasive tools, machinery and material loss, the ore after rough processing does not need to flow to the processing plant, but can be directly transported to the consumer.

Xiang Shan firmly believes at this moment that 3D printing technology can completely change the pattern of industry.

Because this is not a technology designed for "centralized production."

If it is combined with technologies such as automatic assembly...

If Ford is the god of capitalism, and the assembly line symbolizes the glory of capitalist mass production, it may increase Material construction is more suitable for the "freedom kingdom" technology.

Xiang Shan thinks so sincerely.

Of course, Xiang Shan didn't think he could shake the existing system in his lifetime. Because the current industry is entirely based on assembly line industry.

His ambition is actually equivalent to reopening a completely different technology tree.

However, the opposite of this newly born science and technology tree is a science and technology tree that has monopolized all resources.

Xiang Shan doesn't think he can succeed.

However, with the arrival of Ogun, things have changed a little bit.

The "Olenmira Project" shows a technological tree of "additive construction".

It is certain that the aliens have also mastered similar technologies and used them in the aerospace industry.

This is a signal.

Xiang Shan feels that perhaps he should work harder.

Regardless of the direction, he must find his allies in academia-friends who are willing to help him implement this ideal.

At this moment, Xiang Shan feels that Yoggmov · Voight is a very good person.