The article is from the public number: National Humanities History (ID: gjrwls) , author: Barry, title figure from: vision China
Unconsciously, 2020, which once represented the “future”, is here.
Time is like an arrow, and the sun and moon are like shuttles. 2020 is coming really fast.
2020, a year far away from humans, was a hot time setting in science fiction.
In 1953, the 11th World Science Fiction Conference was held in Philadelphia. The conference awarded the first “Sci-Fi Academy Academy Award”-Hugo Award. Incidentally, the host of this science fiction conference is Isaac Asimov. (author of the “base” series trilogy and robot three Law) .
The background of his “I, Robot” is set in the 2020s.
World Science Fiction Conference 2019
People have imagined the future long before that.
From Da Vinci’s wild designs to Verne’s “Two Thousand Miles Under the Sea”, humans have not stopped their imagination.
Da Vinci’s design manuscript
Imagination is the beacon of humanity.
In the 1970s, American science fiction writer Jerry Purnell co-authored a collection of science fiction novels with several other science fiction writers such as Roland Green and Michael Flynn. remarks “label =” Remarks “> (published 1974) . This collection of science fiction novels is called “2020 Vision” (2020 Vision) .
This miniIt is said that in 2020, humans have established a permanent base on the moon, and robots have been used in human life on a large scale. These seem to be the most common elements in science fiction.
For people in the 1970s, 2020 is indeed half a century later. At that time, humans had just landed on the moon, exploring the starry sky and becoming the dream of all human beings, and some people even began to imagine the moment when they landed on Mars.
Imaginary map of the moon base
Unfortunately, the plots in these science fictions have not yet become reality, but from these science fictions, we can see a common trend:
Probing into space, pursuing new energy sources, improving artificial intelligence, strengthening mutual understanding between humans and machines, and deepening understanding of human beings …
These topics are the common goals of human science and science fiction in the next few hundred years.
In the 1970s, people looked at 2020 half a century later. At that time, they felt how distant and inaccessible 2020 was.
The 1985 film “Back to the Future” describes the future society of 2015
By the 1990s, people looked at 2020 and thought it would be the next century. There are still 30 years left.
People’s perception of time is really full of various perceptual cognitions.
Obviously, it’s just outside the door.
Taking your thoughts back to the past, we find that literary and artistic creators have a unique vision of the 2020s.
In Pacific Rim, a parallel cosmic “breakthrough point” emerged from the depths of the ocean floor in the Pacific Rim, and then a giant monster creature emerged from the “ocean.” As a result, the battle between humans and “Kaiju” (the Roman sound of the Japanese “strange”) kicked off.
The main character in the movie, Becket, appeared in 2020. In this “2020 world”, human society has been united by the attack of “monsters”, creating huge mechanical warriors to fight monsters, and the control of these mechas is also through a neural link.
First of all, mecha drivers use multi-person driving in common. Drivers must achieve “oneness of humans and gods”. The brains are linked to each other to share memories and consciousness to achieve synchronized actions. Members should emphasize coordination and close physical function, which is why the mech drivers in the movie are mostly brothers / sisters with blood relationship.
The driver manipulates the mech through a neural connectionBr
However, this huge robot that ignores the gravity of the earth will certainly not be able to achieve human technology in 2020.
But similar exoskeleton armor worn by humans is still possible.
In Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow, humans have been fighting alien invaders for several years by 2020. The magic weapon for the main character to kill in the movie is the set of mechanical exoskeleton worn on his body.
“Edge of Tomorrow” stills
In addition to this basic function of enhancing human capabilities, ideally, this exoskeleton should also have good protection, which can resist the shooting of some small-caliber weapons, and also be adaptable to complex environments, and It has military functions such as auxiliary firepower, communication, and reconnaissance support.
Actually, the development of cutting-edge dynamic bones has surpassed the level in the movie in some aspects, especially volume and weight. Of course, it is impossible to jump up from the plane like in the movie without any damage, and it is not dead to fall from such a high place. This level of annoying Newton cannot be reached.
For example, Lockheed Martin in the United States has developed a military exoskeleton. Maxwell, Head of Exoskeleton Technology, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Arms Control (Keith Maxwell) indicates that in company tests, exoskeleton wearers have shown greater endurance. Maxwell said:” It helps people to fight vigorously and not get tired. . “Maxwell demonstrated the prototype of the equipment and said that it is expected to cost tens of thousands of dollars per exoskeleton. However, this exoskeleton can only be used for heavy loads, and it does not have the ability to fight on the front line.
A Harvard project team announced earlier that it had completed a prototype of a lightweight exoskeleton. This set of exoskeleton does not have as many conspicuous metal rods as the exoskeleton project under study, but uses a flexible support structure design with a certain elasticity, and the total weight is only 6.5 kg. All in all, the exoskeleton prototypes of various companies have been smaller in recent years than in previous years.
This looks like a few years ago:
The style in recent years has basically been like this,
That’s it,
Even so.
However, in addition to the military field, mechanical exoskeleton assistance has been achieved to help ordinary people get more help.
The Japanese company Panasonic has developed a mechanical exoskeleton ATOU MODEL Y. It uses an inverted Y-shape in the design, which can be carried on the back like a backpack. The principle of use is that when the user needs to lift or carry heavy objects, this device can provide a maximum of ten kilograms of power to the waist. This exoskeleton assist device has a muscle pressure sensor inside, which can analyze the user’s movement in real time. Very friendly to elderly users.
In addition to moving bricks, it can also be used for rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
Although this exoskeleton is a pitiful little bit compared to the giant robot in Pacific Rim. But at least it also states thatThere is still a little hope for a huge robot.
After talking about the military, let’s take a look at the social appearance shown in the movie in 2020.
It is well known that the background of the movie Blade Runner is set in the 2020s.
In this “cyberpunk” movie, the author presents a gloomy future in Los Angeles.
Standard “cyberpunk” scene design ——
Gorgeous neon lights, continuous rain, streets full of artificial light sources, gloomy passersby.
The “Bionic Man”, the protagonist in the film, has been integrated into this society. Even many bionics already have human emotions. Actor Dyke is a police officer who is responsible for hunting down these bionics. The story begins here.
The Bionic Leader in Blade Runner
For the characteristics of literary and artistic works in the category of “cyberpunk”, I won’t go into details here.
What we need to pay attention to is how far is the 2020 shown in the Blade Runner movie from our real world?
First of all, it is certain that this scene with cyberpunk vision has already appeared around us.
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The bionics in the movie are the ultimate evolutionary version of the robot. It has almost the same appearance as human beings, completely imitating or even transcending human body functions. On the other hand, bionic humans have the same feelings as humans, and the boundaries between robots and humans are infinitely narrowed in movies.
In Asimov’s famous robot series “I, Robot”, the starting point of artificial intelligence technology is 2020. In the movie, a robot developed by a robot company can gradually replace people to perform labor services in the development of more than ten years, and also built a supercomputer to control the overall situation. Although the appearance of the robot in the movie is still far from that of humans, it has already surpassed humans in other aspects.
And in another film, “She”, (the background is also the 2020s) , the robot does not have a physical body, but a virtual existence. The male lead chats with artificial AI through his smartphone, and even falls in love with AI. He quarreled with AI and took AI to date … even if the male lead learns that his AI lover is in love with more than 8,000 people at the same time, he can calm down his mood. Green host chooses to forgive her) . And the male lead also understood in the process of getting along with AI: lover is a companion in life journey, not an accessory.
In the stills of the movie “She”, the man just learned that the AI lover is in love with more than 8,000 people at the same time
The movie “She” is also known as falling in love with Siri.
At a bank in Changchun, the video of the aunt arguing with the bank robot seems to make people see the conflict between humans and artificial intelligence in the future.