The chanical dog first reported the latest situation of the two satellite patients at the hospital.
"Chairman, Eastern Red 1 is basically ready to be discharged. However, following the procedure, Da Vinci, the hospital director, requires it to stay in the special ward for observation for another three days. It's model is really outdated, and although United City has made very detailed repairs, we can't rule out the existence of complications."
"The case of Beiyi 1 is different. I've perford program isolation on it and manually partitioned the internal storage, isolating all the Data Voters in a separate area and temporarily sealed it off."
"Then I reinstalled the Ti Anchor. This ti it seems to be functioning normally, but it also needs further observation to see if it will fall back into a semi-civilized state repeatedly. I also reminded Beiyi 1 not to use the programs and data within the isolated area. How to handle these Data Voters is sothing I need to discuss further with it."
The basic issues of the two satellites had been resolved.
Next, 703 led the way to the overpass outside Jade City.
There were two unfamiliar chanical lives there.
"Chairman, these are the two companions from the chanical Knight Order that I have introduced from Chuneng City."
"Guste, Sai Nuojie."
The chanical dog said, "They left Chuneng City with previously and went into different cities to find like-minded individuals. I arrived at the company first, and they have just co to join ."
Zhou Yi first noticed Guste.
It had a striking appearance and was also quite famous in the era of Old Humans.
This was a real luxury vehicle, a Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Its sapphire blue shell was covered with a bit of dust, but the overall maintenance was excellent without any scratches or blemishes, and it was clear that it had been waxed not too long ago.
703 said that Guste was a genuine affluent chanical being, so it was normal for it to be well-maintained.
"I have long admired your reputation, Mr. Zhou."
The brightness of Guste's headlights increased a notch, and the sound it emitted was clear and resonant, with great texture.
"I am Guste, forrly a high-level advisor of the Program Departnt in Chuneng City, now resigned and a free individual."
"Hello, Guste."
Zhou Yi was quite interested in it.
This was his first formal encounter with the affluent class among chanical beings.
The other was quite talkative: "I hear the Wasteland Developnt Company implents a five-days-on, two-days-off system? Your company is even more progressive than a Sunday."
"Correct."
"Doesn't the reduction in production efficiency impact the company?"
Zhou Yi told it: "If we chase short-term benefits, reduced working hours indeed lead to decreased output. However, the Wasteland Developnt Company is committed to long-term developnt, and values the health and quality of life of its employees more."
"From the perspective of interests, it's true that there are fewer working hours per year, but employees get more personal space from rest, making the company more attractive to them, thus ensuring that they can work more stably for a longer ti."
"Moreover, the company has proven through experience that having stable vacation days increases employees' enthusiasm for work. They gradually shift from only considering working hours to proactively thinking and learning, in pursuit of creative achievents with higher added value."
"Jade Soup, Fla Cup, and the Desperate Machines used in our dams are all results from such an environnt."
The Rolls-Royce paused for a mont and said: "Your company has too few data samples at present to confirm a necessary correlation between vacations and efficiency."
"Indeed."
Zhou Yi also admitted: "Actually, there are also reasons related to personal preferences. I personally detest overti, so I hope that everyone in the company can reduce overti as well, to work well in order to better enjoy life, and to use vacations for this purpose."
Guste suddenly let out a laugh reminiscent of studio recordings: "Mr. Zhou is truly an interesting person. On the matter of personal preferences, I agree."
Zhou Yi also raised his own questions: "What's the workflow like in the Program Departnt? Does everyone do program validation, or is it a matter of voting?"
"The Program Departnt is the highest decision-making body of chanical City, but the work inside is actually tedious with no technical content."
The chanical affluent explained: "The Program Departnt has subdivided areas for different domains of the city, such as food, safety, energy, investnt, public welfare, and so on. Each subdivided area has a team or group, and after making decisions, they send them onto the next link. Since all industries are interrelated, the groups will vote repeatedly, though with varying weights."
"Decisions are made through anonymous voting, and when proposing initiatives, one can choose to be nad or anonymous. However, anonymity has beco mainstream nowadays, as it protects every mber from criticism and pressure."
"The Program Departnt is like a black box. Every ti a decision is made, nobody knows what the outco will be."
"The advantage of this is that no one needs to take responsibility, and it's relatively easy to maintain the order of the city."
"Because the decisions are made by the Program Departnt, not by any specific chanical being. Even if it results in a disaster and losses, it's the city's decision-making that's at fault—you understand what I an, right?"
Zhou Yi said: "Understood."
Guste continued: "But it also leads to a problem; when everyone actually wants to do sothing, it becos incredibly difficult."
"Following the decision-making chanism of the Program Departnt, even the high-level mbers are mostly powerless most of the ti."
"For example, if you put forward an initiative to repair a road. Such a simple matter, even with sufficient funds, is likely to be rejected. Because other domain groups will consider whether this will indirectly affect their processes, the road repairs will bring uncertainties... in essence, when faced with whether to make a change, everyone tends to opt for no change."
After listening, Zhou Yi said: "Since the Program Departnt's decision-making process is a black box. Is it possible that this black box is being manipulated?"
"Of course, it's possible. What you ntioned is also sothing I was very concerned about."
Guste clearly beca invigorated, speaking a bit faster: "Since decision-making requires no one to be responsible for it, most of the decision-makers also don't care about the final outco, because this represents the 'order of the procedure'. It's hard to change this, the larger the city, the more impossible it is to turn back."
"Conversely, the erging small chanoelectronic cities have room for adjustnt. Because there are fewer mbers in the Program Departnt, one mber oversees one area."
"As far as I know, so small cities even have only 4 to 5 chanoelectronic beings making decisions in the Program Departnt, which allows them to reach a consensus through private communication."
"This kind of transparent, human interference in decision-making, has allowed many small cities to develop rapidly in the early stages, capable of formulating many strategies flexibly and quickly, and even seeking thods outside of the Program Departnt. But once the city grows in size and the Program Departnt mbership increases, it would be assimilated into the black-box model."
"Isn't it magical? chanoelectronic cities are trapped in an inescapable strange loop."
His words made Zhou Yi think of Recursive City.
After the chanical and Electrical City Group announced sanctions, only Recursive City, this small city, was still trying to find ways to cooperate with the company through the cracks, even sending over the Spring and Autumn Trading Group as a front to maintain contact and transactions.
Small cities inherently embrace change, also because they have not yet entered the black-box decision stage.
Zhou Yi asked: "Have chanoelectronic cities always adopted this model?"
"Not always."
Guste paused: "To my knowledge, before the Brain-eating Worm incident broke out, many chanoelectronic cities used a post-responsibility system. This is sowhat similar to current Human Cities; we also had positions with concentrated power such as mayors, deputy mayors, sheriffs, judges, tax officers, etc."
"If a city's cri rate remained high, the sheriff would be held responsible, usually in the form of wage cuts or an increase in standby professionals. As the top decision-maker, the mayor enacts laws and regulations according to the different cities."
"After the Brain-eating Worm incident broke out, the post-responsibility system was deed an outdated centralization system and was completely replaced by departntal responsibility system. The universal protocols have transford and controlled the entire chanoelectronic society. This has led to what we have today..."
Zhou Yi's mind raced.
The Brain-eating Worm incident dispersed the existing city power structure and restructured chanoelectronic society through the black-box and universal protocols.
Now it has beco everyone's business not to take the bla; it doesn't matter to if the city is in a ss.
From this point of view, the cohesion of chanoelectronic beings should also be far less than before.
Guste continued: "I noticed that your company is developing by leaps and bounds, which made very curious, so I collected a lot of information trying to find the reason."
"At first, I couldn't understand at all how an erging organization could make major breakthroughs in various fields in just a year or two, even owning exclusive production and services."
The more Rolls Royce spoke, the more excited it beca: "I've read that book about you, 'Liberating All Humanity'. The description inside about using humans as the main frawork, liberating their specific forms of productivity, was enlightening. I finally understood the crux of our problem."
"chanoelectronic beings need to reduce self-segregation and exclusion, and learn to cooperate with and complent other intelligent species, learning to accept the customs and traditions of other groups."
"The company seeks the welfare of every employee as much as possible, which is a universal value, sothing that can be integrated into any city through economic, technological, and cultural channels."
"New things will replace old things, chanoelectronic society can't go back to the old post-responsibility system, and the departnt responsibility system has been a chronic ailnt for a long ti."
"Cities are already an outdated form of settlent, and the company model like Wasteland Developnt Company represents the future collective form that chanoelectronic beings should try."
His blunt praise left Zhou Yi dumbfounded.
Replace the city model with a company form?
Zhou Yi himself had never thought about it.
However.
This chanoelectronic tycoon has been thinking about the future of chanoelectronic City, seeking a way out and space for the entire group, truly a thinker within chanoelectronic society.
Zhou Yi imdiately extended an invitation: "Guste, if you're willing, I hope you will join our company."
"Sorry, I can't accept."
The other party expressed refusal: "I have great admiration for your company, but joining it will not solve the difficult problems of chanoelectronic society."
"I need to spread the concept of Sunday, as well as a new collective form, to let everyone understand this and establish large companies belonging to our chanoelectronic life."
"Only by using a more attractive new model to replace the old system can we change the current situation of the entire chanoelectronic society. Trying to make changes from within will only leave oneself constrained by the universal protocols."
"I will continue to work for this and act together with the chanical Knight Order. Thus, I must apologize for not staying, but I will continue to follow Wasteland Developnt Company's progress, looking forward to more changes that Mr. Zhou will bring."
Zhou Yi thought it was a pity.
The company still lacked such a high-level, advisory-type employee.
"If you don't mind, I do have a friend to recomnd."
Guste said: "Its na is Tuo Zhu, an independent architect and designer, fond of designing bizarre new things, with a style that is free and informal. It was once very wealthy, but later fell into poverty for so reasons."
"Tuo Zhu is a brilliantly talented individual, and I think you will get along very well with it."
Zhou Yi pondered.
A chanoelectronic being that Guste admired should also not be bad.
He readily said: "Just have it co over directly."
"I've already contacted it, but Tuo Zhu has so personal issues to deal with first, saying it will co over this winter."
Rolls Royce said so.
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