nashuaworldcup Chapter 329 Pillars of Orcas
Chapter 329 Pillars of Orcas
The airborne mobile base "Rhodes Island" hovered over Montana City, causing a stir in the small town, with a huge pillar planted in the city center.
In the distant, bright past, the colonists of the United Nations of Earth always erected such pillars in their colonies. At first, these pillars were just spliced wooden posts used to record the time of the colony's birth. Then, the pillars became made of stone and steel, and circuits and mechanics were implanted in them. And then... they became the management core of all new colonies.
The Pillar of Orcas is one of Orcas's global nodes. Through this sub-node, the Orcas system can take over all production, labor, and distribution activities. The computing core will begin to connect to nearby intelligent unmanned engineering equipment, carry out necessary infrastructure construction, networking, and integration into the big data system.
"City registration complete, Montana City. No infrastructure detected, smart building unit found... Infrastructure construction in progress."
Orcas immediately intervened, and the instruments on the Rhodes Island reacted quickly and began to operate. These simple automated construction machines collected building materials from the Rhodes Island, and after a period of time, the first dependency architecture of the Orcas system was completed: "Internet of Things Factory".
According to the standards of the Ocas system, all kinds of factories must be connected to this Internet of Things factory. The simplest way is to set up a detection station at the material inlet and output of each factory to collect daily output, then plan the data, and finally all the data and products will be included in the entire system.
Montana City also changed accordingly. Automated machines were quickly set up. The original intention of Ocas was to curb human greed. Under the cold rationality of numbers, the cold numbers would not be arbitrarily altered or concealed. The planned economy that is difficult for humans to build will be able to run and be controlled by electronic computers.
This is the original meaning of Eurocas: a fully automated management system for the entire alliance. Under the theory of cybernetics, the high-computing machines, combined with big data quantification, built an unprecedented economic miracle, ultimately leading society into a post-scarcity era, namely a proletarian society with extremely abundant productivity.
Under such an economic model, the market, a capitalist element, will gradually shrink and transform into a system of labor income exchange—abolishing money and using labor certificates, which are not linked to an equivalent value but to the necessary labor time for the commodity.
This means quantifying each person's labor and the products of their labor, and then exchanging them directly. In this way, there will be no situation where "workers cannot afford the goods they produce," thus eliminating, to some extent, the conditions for the birth of capitalist economic crises.
This is a crucial step in Alice's revolution, and also an important one. Without such a system, the revolution would merely be a shift from capitalist exploitation to state exploitation of workers' surplus labor value.
This system has already been basically validated in Star City. An effective economic management system that is subject to public oversight and is not subject to any external manipulation is indeed a necessary condition for a new society and represents the next sociological revolution for humanity.
The former United Nations of Earth also went through such a stage. Only when the Pillars of Orcas stood on the ground, and when the information society built by the Internet and the Internet of Things became a reality, could the revolution truly lead to victory.
"The Oukas system version V82.12.1145 has completed its self-check and social citizen registration and is now in use."
By February 673, the Ocas system in Montana, Northern Louisiana, and Portland was already in operation. After Alice overcame all obstacles and made the collective meetings of workers in every factory and farm the highest authority in the area, this new society immediately burst forth with vitality.
In layman's terms, managing a city is a complex matter. Decision-makers can only set the direction, while the actual operation generally relies on bureaucrats.
Whether it is a capitalist society or a society that has undergone a proletarian revolution, bureaucrats have always occupied this bridge. However, when Ocas started operating, this bridge was directly removed and replaced by flat ground.
Decision-making and execution rely on the Oukas core. The current status of each city is managed by surveys, sensors, detectors, cameras, etc. The city's geographical location, location advantages, characteristics, and culture are entered into the Oukas system's big database, and the intelligent core then makes decisions on the city's development plan.
The city's development and management will be decided by votes from the workers' assembly. Workers can initiate proposals, and the deliberation of these proposals will no longer be conducted by an inefficient and corrupt representative parliament or by any individual or country. Instead, it will be conducted through direct voting by the entire population via distributed personal terminals.
Want to build a bridge in a certain location? Then submit the proposal on your personal terminal. After review by Ocas, if the proposal is acceptable but not included in the city's development plan, it will be submitted to the relevant citizens of the area for a vote. The proposal will be passed if the number of votes in favor exceeds 20% of the number of votes against.
Of course, the actual process is more complicated. Ocas not only has to review the reasons for the proposal, but also take into account various social impacts, including geographical location, resources required for construction, etc. Generally speaking, if a region needs a bridge, then that bridge is already in the planning stage.
Of course, implementing this system in Colombia remains quite challenging. Many remote villages still maintain a near-natural state, and integrating them into the Ocas system requires improved infrastructure. At the same time, Ocas cannot rely too heavily on automated machines at this stage, as labor and employment remain important social stabilizers.
Therefore, after the Ocas system was launched in the base area, the biggest sensory change for the local residents was that they had entered the information age. The most important thing was that the Ocas personal smart terminal sent to all citizens through registration was essentially a smartphone, and the applications pre-installed on the smartphone included chat applications, forums, and video websites.
The Colombian proletariat, suddenly thrust into the age of intelligence, was immediately swept up by these changes, and the new social problems that arose from them are now up to fate.
For example, three months after the advent of the internet age, soldiers on the front lines posted updates about the battle online; Alice's online account had the highest number of followers across the entire internet, and public opinion was about to shift from "the great Alice" to "my favorite idol, Alice!"...