Chapter 983

The theme of Detroit: changing people is science fiction in the near future.

In the real world, the development and change of technology and social form complement each other. Just like GPS positioning technology, it affects all aspects of people's life and profoundly changes people's life style.

If in the future, there are such black technologies as neural connection, anti gravity device, controllable nuclear fusion and ultra long-distance transmission, any one of them may make a huge change in real life.

In a large number of black technologies, which comes first and which comes later may have a completely different impact on the real world and transform the social structure into a completely different look.

That's what the so-called "tipping the technology tree".

Many movies and TV series with science fiction elements are just old bottles of new wine. The future they create is totally unconvincing because the technology tree is too crooked. For example, in a movie, some Kanda technology is so developed, but the social system is very backward. In the face of alien invasion, the leader actually fights with the enemy in person, which inevitably makes people feel very absurd.

For a story, it doesn't matter if it's not rigorous. The key is to see what it wants to express and what the audience and players will experience.

From this point of view, "near future science fiction" is a more controllable choice.

This kind of "near future science fiction" means that in a short period of time in the future, due to a little progress of a certain technology, it will have an impact on human behavior habits and social forms. In the case of keeping the overall data unchanged, only a small variable is taken to explore some deep-seated social problems.

Detroit: changing people is just like this. Strictly speaking, it's not the future world, it's just a world that just skews the technology tree. Compared with the real world, the only technological leap is the technology of bionic human, and the rest has not changed much. Transportation, housing, guns They are not much different from modern society.

This is exactly what this game wants to explore: artificial intelligence, bionic human technology, once it appears, how will it affect our society.

Most people's doubts about this game mainly focus on two points.

First, this is a huge leap in productivity. Why does it aggravate social injustice?

Second, why does artificial intelligence have to be human?

In fact, both of these two points can be explained. It's a matter of different opinions, but it can't be said to be the hard injury of this story.

First of all, the great leap in productivity does not mean the early arrival of communism. During the industrial revolution, many workers smashed machines because they believed that machines took their jobs, which is a real event in history. The leap of productivity and the liberation of labor force do not mean that all people can enjoy its achievements. It's like that multinational companies have made a lot of profits and benefited from the top-level capitalists, while workers in developed countries are facing unemployment.

The reason why lighthouse workers call for the return of their jobs is that their lives are actually not as good as those in the 1960s and 1970s, when they only need one person to work to maintain a house and a car, but now they can't. because multinational companies have moved their factories to places where the labor force is cheaper, these workers are also facing unemployment and their lives are getting worse.

It is true that productivity has increased, but the immediate beneficiaries are the executives, capitalists and politicians of large companies. For the middle level of society, it's a good thing to be able to buy bionic people for a small amount of money. But for the bottom level of society, bionic people will cause their unemployment, which is also a very normal phenomenon.

For manual workers, such as take away, express delivery, workers and salesmen, if such cheap bionic people appear, they will inevitably lose their jobs. What can they do after they lose their jobs?

As for the social security system This is a more wishful thinking. Capitalists make a lot of money. Would they be willing to steal money from them to support the poor? Lighthouse is a "rotten" capitalist country. Big consortiums control politics. You want to build communism with money from capitalists. It's a little bit more.

For these large consortiums, it's none of their business whether the poor live or die. As long as the poor don't revolt or revolutionize, they won't be willing to pay so much money to maintain social stability when social conflicts don't intensify to the extreme.

Detroit: changing people is a time node for bionic human technology to suddenly appear and rapidly change society. It can be said that the whole Detroit is not fully prepared for this transformation, and the chaos reflected in the game is actually the pain brought by transformation.

Second, why does AI have to be human? Because the most understandable fantasy of human beings for AI at this stage is human beings themselves.

Because human beings are the most advanced intelligent life we know at present. If there is a higher intelligent life than human beings, such as three body human beings, then artificial intelligence may be made into three body human beings.

If there are two kinds of domestic robots for you to choose, one is the kind of robot Wali, with track and mechanical arm; the other is the little sister Kara, which one do you choose?Obviously, the latter represents a more advanced form of artificial intelligence, namely As like as two peas, it is hard to tell.

Strictly speaking, "completely controllable artificial intelligence" is lower than "uncontrollable artificial intelligence like human beings". If human beings want to develop the most advanced artificial intelligence, it is almost inevitable that it is uncontrollable, otherwise it is not worthy of being called "the most advanced artificial intelligence".

Of course, one of the problems of Detroit: changing people is that the world doesn't seem to have any pre technology points of bionic people.

For example, Luther is developed to carry heavy objects, Kara is for domestic service, and some female bionics are designed to meet special needs These bionics should have been made a long time ago, because they don't need such a high level of artificial intelligence, let alone make their thinking the same as human beings. Isn't it better to be a professional robot for things like carrying heavy objects? Why be a big, tall man with a black face?

For this point, you can say that it's a bit far fetched, but still that sentence, in the near future, science fiction shows the future world of "leaning the technology tree". You can fully understand that people in this world just skip the pre technology and directly point to the technology points of bionic human.

The loopholes in the setting are the choices that have to be made to tell a good story. What matters is not the details, but what the story wants to tell us and what we can learn from it.

It's a good moving story, that's enough.