Chapter 200 Preface

Long ago, before the Safety Committee was established, before humankind developed the Celestial, when they were still bound by gravity to the surface of the planet now known as Earth 0, human civilization reached the technological singularity.

That is to say, the development of science and technology made incredibly rapid progress in a short amount of time, an exponential growth approaching infinity.

Although usually, the enhancement of productivity is beneficial for the entire society, when such progress is too quick, outdated relations of production and methods of distribution can no longer manage the immense benefits brought by advanced productive forces, intensifying internal contradictions. And when the gap between old and new technologies exceeds the range that outdated violent machines can suppress, it leads to the collapse of the old social order, and even its destruction and reformation through extreme violence.