Liu Cixin: Our technology is getting closer to science fiction

Wen | Xiahong "2014 Future Science and Technology conference" was held in Shanghai yesterday. Famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, Hansol and the domestic dozens of internet, technology companies days and investors attended the conference. The future of science and technology not only contains the High-tech, cutting-edge technology that has been created, but also the technology that human beings can meet but have not yet been created, and the technology that has not been met. On this theme, speakers gave their views on the frontiers of Imagination and technology, world trends in science and technology, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, science and religion, sci-fi and entrepreneurial waves, and wearable devices, cloud computing, and big data. Liu Cixin, a sci-fi writer who is popular with science fiction fans, received an interview with the media yesterday, and the "entrepreneurial State" reporter, according to its on-site questions and answers to the contents of the following: Today we see some of the company's products, they are closer to science fiction, many ideas have a strong sci-fi color. But the technologies we're seeing that are particularly close to science fiction are found to be concentrated in the IT world. Some of the seemingly sci-fi technologies are getting farther away from science fiction, such as aerospace technology, and there is no real progress from the 60 's to unauthorized, including its propulsion and deep space probes. Now we say that some technology companies are getting closer to science fiction in terms of technology, creativity, but more precisely in the field of it, not all companies. I do not know much about the internet industry, a personal feeling is that from the traditional internet to mobile Internet, and then to wearable equipment, there is an obvious trend is the integration of human machine, which includes the integration of human body and hardware, human intelligence and software integration. This convergence of trends, there is a key barrier is needed to be broken, is the hardware and human physical connection. Our current hardware and people do not have physical, biological connections, but are approaching the relationship step-by-step. For example, a cell phone has become a human being, but it can be put in a pocket or thrown aside to look at it. But Google glasses wear is more like a human organ than a mobile phone. In the future, if the hardware and human body are naturally linked, this is a landmark breakthrough. Last year there was a professor at MIT who implanted a chip into his arm, but unfortunately the chip had been in his arm for only 36 days and had to be taken out. But I think it's a direction for smart hardware. We are still very cautious about our bodies, it is definitely a problem to implant electronic devices in the body, but this breakthrough I think will be able to complete. The development of science and technology to now certainly has a lot of side effects, this side effect in literature and art will certainly have some reflection. But in the narrow sense of science fiction, in fact, more simple than we think, is not more complicated than we think, why do you say so? Writers put technology to the negative, the future written in darkness, their main reason is that this better storytelling, this is actually very simple thing. If you imagine a bright future, that novel is rather difficult to write. Want to writeA novel, there must be conflict, the writer through the imagination of science and Technology "demonizing", his aim is to hope that contradictory conflicts appear more eye-catching, stimulating some. So many science fiction writers have dark descriptions of the future, and his reasons are not as deep as we think, as if there is really no confidence in the future. It is now believed that the works of the Golden Age of American science fiction, the future is bright, and I used to think so. But I later read a lot of the works of the Golden Age and found that it was not like that. Even at the beginning of the last century, when science and technology showed the brightest prospect, there were two-thirds of sci-fi fiction, and he probably had something dark to describe. That is, science fiction itself does reflect some aspects of science and technology that have an effect on society, but not quite so. The production of Chinese science fiction films, although from technology to equipment is not worse than abroad, but our ideas may be scarce. Now that the American sci-fi blockbuster is hitting China's sci-fi market, I think, on the contrary, the American sci-fi blockbuster has brought a huge opportunity for China's sci-fi market. Because the American kind of stunt, the story particularly weak sci-fi blockbuster, now in the United States has been tired of American audiences. For example, Transformers four in the United States did not make much of the box office, then it is the Chinese audience tired of the day is around the corner. How do we seize this opportunity now? First of all, I think that new sci-fi movies must inherit the advantage of American original sci-fi blockbusters, and there is a good story for the Chinese people, and the combination of the two, we might be able to bring the huge market of American sci-fi blockbuster to the next. Anyway, it's a chance.