Judu Lights | Pacific and Yuan Universe, the future of science fiction stories

Author: Wang Nuo Nuo science fiction writer

In the past two years, with the launch of Polish CD Projekt RED's game "Cyberpunk 2077", the entry of Pai Bo Punk was also brought up. You can even see several domestic cities in the propaganda caliber calling for "a" Cyberpunk "temperament city. In fact, whether it is a science fiction novel or the "Cyberpunk" in science fiction games, it is not a word of words. Calling away "mechanical legacy", "neon light", "skyscraper", "rainy days", these appearances are in the appearance of visual elements. Exploring the spiritual core of Cyberpunk will find that it is quite depressed.

Cyberpunk: Human's original intention is mechanically dismembered

In science fiction works, the core word about Cyberpunk is "high -tech, low life". The development of scientific and technological has made our lives better and better -this is a traditional point of view, but in the philosophical system of Cyberpunk, technology has become a means of concentration of power, and even technology itself has become an exploitation. From a certain perspective, this is also very realistic. With the infiltration of information technology into work and entertainment, it gradually becomes part of the incomparable part of urban life. Equipment binds people's flesh, data perspective "soul"; platforms and enterprises that master information technology have become the pole of power. Human behavior and hobbies are transformed into a line that can be calculated and predictable, and then become a number in corporate financial reports.

For individuals, at this moment, it is a high -tech lifestyle that is ubiquitous and unable to resist. Accepting it means a screw on a huge chain with a low attitude, and it also means "low life", that is, the part of the attribute that gives up people.

A news appeared in the eggs of "Cyberpunk 2077": Among a mine difficulty in the Siberia region, 35 miners were trapped in the depths of the ground after a strong earthquake, but due to the installation of righteous body, Even if there is no food and fresh water source for two weeks, the miners can still survive.

The news naturally feels that it is an example of a safety improvement for human production to human production, but then the style of painting turns: "Fortunately, after the rescue, the miners after the rescue were briefly resting and accepted the technical evaluation of the technical assessment, and then they would be evaluated. Return to their previous jobs. "

There are also bionic people who are also in the same works "Silver Wing Killer" (adapted from Philip Dick's "Bionic Man Dream of Electronic Sheep?") Appearance, IQ, emotion, can only be distinguished from humans through special testing. However, their destiny is also sad. The purpose of being created is to complete the hard work that humans are unwilling to engage in, and spend a short life in danger and violence. They are the sacrifice of technology and the epitome of people who have been deprived of "high life" by high -tech.

Looking back at the conspicuous visual elements of Sai Bo Poch, they also obviously have the "sequelae" of science and technology: the rainy days that will never end -technological abuse leads to the environmental deterioration, the haze will always cover the city; neon lights and skyscrapers - - Monopoly data and wealth companies are high, squeezing the living space of the city; the common mechanical limb -the human body is replaced and eaten, and on the way to becoming the on the way to the Siber (biochemical man), the person's original significance Gradually disintegrate. The future of the theme works of Pacific is not worth looking forward to the future of us. It reflects the cautious side of science fiction works for the development of science and technology. But it is precisely the work of this subject, which has the highest weight coincidence with the real world we are experiencing.

Yuan Universe: Do the initiative and reality self -break

If Saobo Poch is an extreme interpretation of reality, then the "Yuan Universe" that has become popular in the past two years is more like trying to provide a solution to the proposition left by Sai Bo Poch. A weak, but indeed "optimal solution".

The Yuan universe is not only an unprecedented concept of game, but also a possible new way of human existence: everyone has their own avatars in the virtual space, that is, the Yuan universe (Avata, from the Indian Sanskrit, the original meaning "avatar, incarnation, incarnation "), Obtain social relations, adventure experience, wealth resources in a new identity.

The concept of "Yuan Universe" was first born in the sci -fi novel "avalanche", which was born in Neil Stephenson. The story takes place in the United States in the future. After an economic disaster, the strength of the United States no longer exists, and society has begun to rule by private enterprises and privileges. Ordinary labor forces were forced to find various "weird" work to maintain their livelihoods. The gap between the rich and the poor increased, and life became a imprisonment without an end.

Fortunately, there is a completely immersive virtual environment here, providing an opportunity for the desperate everyone, briefly out of the unbearable reality.

"This fictional place is the Yuan universe." Neil Stephenson once wrote.

This is the original intention of the author of the science fiction novel.

In fact, the Yuan universe is indeed a trick to solve the so -called "inner volume". After entering the Yuan universe that is fully structured in the cloud, the ancient economics curse of "limited resources and unlimited desires" may be completely broken for the first time. As long as you are willing, everyone in the world of the Yuan universe can enjoy the most luxurious residence and the most unsatisfactory partner. They are all fake, but what does it matter? Human experience and memory are real, it is low -cost, stable happiness.

Just like in the novel "avalanche", people who leave the reality build a new building on the street of the Yuan universe, and hunting each other in the free battle zone, experiencing the extremely luxurious freedom in the real world. At the same time, there is also a type of person in this virtual world, known as "Gargoyle". Due to being too addicted, they chose to give up the life outside the virtual world and let themselves stay here permanently. For more than ten years after the publishing of "The avalanche", "Stone Statue Ghost" has been regarded as a prediction of an addiction trap for electronic screens. This prediction is really terrible. It is not that people will be more and more time to invest in the virtual world, but to surrender to the real world thoroughly, give themselves to data, and give them to the cloud, where to start their own lives. It can be called the Yuan universe immigration or Caibo immigration, but it can also be said that this is a person who proactively made himself in reality.

The ultimate suspense of science and technology to humans

Two hot topics at the moment: Yuan Universe and Cyberpunk are symbiotic. They all represent a concern for the development of human civilization: science and technology are no longer the paddle and rudder leading to the sea of ​​stars, but become the incentives of humans collapsed inwardly, and become a seductive Siren girl who lost the sea. Demon's singing.

From the day of the seeds of civilization, there are two powerful forces that have started to see for thousands of years in the human mind, that is, the spirit of exploration of the external world and the complete desire to the self -ontology. Under the joint action of these two forces, humans have gone out of barren land and established cities and countries. Because of the promotion of these two forces, the initial science light was born.

What kind of future will it bring to us when technology feeds human beings? Explore out, or collapse inward? Internal orientation, bad or good, this is not only the writing material of science fiction writers, but also the ultimate suspense that everyone is looking forward to.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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