I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 608 - 506: Technology Accumulation

The construction of the new city had begun, but Chen Xin was not staying at the construction site this time.

For him, although he was the driving force behind the city's construction, it wasn't necessary for him to oversee the site all the time.

After all, his primary job was to research and develop new products that could improve the current situation and contribute to national development, not just simply oversee a construction site.

Lately, indeed, Chen Xin's main work was designing the Dome City, but that didn't mean he had no other responsibilities.

There had been some obstacles in upgrading the Weather Controller. Given the technology currently at the nation's disposal, further improvements were at the edge of what is technologically feasible.

Despite having the researchers Chen Xin brought back from Lucia involved, and the addition of excellent researchers and experts in related fields by the country, the improvements that could be made with existing technology were already completed when these researchers worked with Chen Xin in Lucia.

Continuing to improve the Weather Controller would only be possible for researchers if there was a breakthrough in the current technological field.

After all, all feasible improvements had already been made. To achieve new improvements, one could only break existing norms and make breakthroughs.

But making a breakthrough is easier said than done!

Reality isn't a game; in games, you can click upgrade, and it might be done in a moment, at least it's just a progress bar running.

In reality, a technological breakthrough could take ten or even several decades.

A breakthrough in a specific field might be the result of decades of technological accumulation in other related fields leading to a qualitative change.

Similarly, a research project that cannot achieve a breakthrough for ages might simply be due to insufficient technological accumulation in other related fields.

This is particularly evident in high-tech fields. Without adequate accumulation in fundamental science, it's hard to achieve research results and breakthroughs.

Take the simplest example: an experiment fails repeatedly because the precision of existing experimental equipment is inadequate, but another research institution with higher-precision instruments succeeds in one try.

The difference arises merely due to the precision of the experimental equipment produced.

For Flame Country, there's a very profound lesson and experience regarding this matter.

Now, Flame Country's industrial strength can be considered very robust, and the country has caught up in various technological fields, but during Chen Xin's childhood in the 90s and the early years of the 21st century, Flame Country didn't have the industrial strength it has today.

At that time, Flame Country was already developing new fighter jets on its own but was hampered by the aircraft engine. Although not impossible to produce, the products weren't as good or durable as those from abroad.

There were deep historical reasons for this. Our country was thin in technological accumulation in the field of aircraft engines and lacked experience in independent research development.

However, the more fundamental reason was that Western countries had nearly a century of aviation manufacturing and over two centuries of industrial accumulation, leaving us far behind.

To catch up with them, we essentially had to retrace in a shorter time the technological paths and accumulation they achieved over hundreds of years.

Though, thanks to the relentless efforts of the previous generation, we did gradually catch up, the amount of effort involved and how many researchers dedicated their lives to it is an unspeakable number.

Therefore, achieving a breakthrough in the Weather Controller isn't something that can be accomplished in a short time.

The researchers responsible for the Weather Controller are naturally aware of this, and they are prepared for a long-term struggle.

After all, scientific research has never been about shirking away just because breakthroughs aren't apparent in the short term. If research were abandoned merely because hope wasn't visible in the short term, human technology wouldn't have progressed to where it is today.

Of course, if there were external forces intervening, a breakthrough might still be swift.

For instance, with the upgrade system in Chen Xin's hands, it could completely break through bottlenecks and barriers, allowing for a direct leap in technology.

Chen Xin, of course, wanted to do so. After all, he proposed the plan, and he had been overseeing the project. According to his plan, the Weather Controller was still to be further upgraded.

However, perhaps out of consideration for technological accumulation, the national leadership did not let Chen Xin continue upgrading the Weather Controller on the Mobile Base.

Moreover, based on the technological data obtained from the Weather Controller on the Mobile Base, the country is constructing another Weather Controller.

Chen Xin felt somewhat helpless about this, but he didn't think it was wrong.

This is akin to Flame Country's situation in the eighties and nineties—choosing between buying foreign technology or developing its own technology.

Flame Country had suffered more than once in this regard and naturally trusted more in a step-by-step, self-reliant path, preferring not to upgrade directly, but hoping its researchers would achieve breakthroughs, which is reasonable.

Moreover, the technological enhancements brought about by the upgrades Chen Xin made to the Weather Controller in Lucia had not been fully analyzed by researchers. Introducing new technology again without fully grasping the existing upgrades is, in a way, not a good thing.

Of course, the country did not intend for someone as obviously overpowered as Chen Xin to be idle. In addition to designing and building the Dome City, he had many projects requiring his assistance sent over from other research institutions recently.

These projects were those whose technology had already been broken through, and products had been made, but they needed technical validation and testing improvements.

Items sent to Chen Xin for upgrading and refining, with reverse parsing later upon return, are far more efficient than spending vast amounts of time testing and incrementally improving them.

This was originally Chen Xin's job, but due to the nation's consideration of having Chen Xin create more new things, utilizing his creative ability, a few adjustments were made, reducing the number of projects sent to Chen Xin for upgrades.

It indeed yielded significant results, like the Titan and Airbag Ark products, which greatly satisfied the nation.

Now the country isn't completely turning back to have Chen Xin upgrade others' work. The main reason is the accumulation of many domestic projects while Chen Xin spent half a year in Lucia.

Now that Chen Xin is back, naturally, these projects have all been sent to his desk for him to handle.

In fact, since Chen Xin returned to the research center, most of his work time has been spent on this, and the Dome City design plan was accomplished by squeezing in time.