Almighty Game Designer Chapter 983: The significance of science fiction in the near future

The theme of "Detroit: Becoming Human" is a near future science fiction.

In the real world, the development and changes of technology and social forms are complementary. Just like GPS positioning technology alone, it affects all aspects of everyone’s lives and profoundly changes people’s lifestyles.

If in the future world, there are black technologies such as neural connections, anti-gravity devices, controllable nuclear fusion, ultra-long-distance transmission, etc., then just picking up one item may bring about earth-shaking changes to real life.

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

The so-called "slightly crooked technology tree" means this.

Many movies and TV series with sci-fi elements are just new wine in old bottles, and the future created by them is totally unconvincing because the technology tree is too crooked. For example, in a certain movie, a certain Kanda is so technologically advanced, but the social system is extremely backward. When facing an alien invasion, the leader actually went to battle with the enemy himself, which inevitably makes people feel very absurd.

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

From this point of view, the subject of "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, a slight advancement in a certain technology will have an impact on human behavior and social patterns. While keeping the overall data unchanged, only a small variable is used to explore some deep-seated social problems.

This is the case in "Detroit: Becoming Human". Strictly speaking, this is not the future world, it is just a world that happens to be a bit crooked. Compared to the real world, the only technological leap is the bionic technology, and everything else remains the same. Transportation, housing, guns... are not much different from modern society.

This is exactly what this game will explore: what impact artificial intelligence and bionic technology will have on our society once they appear.

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

First, this is clearly a huge leap in productivity. Why has it worsened social injustice?

Secondly, why does artificial intelligence have to be human?

In fact, these two points can be explained. This is a matter of opinion, but it cannot be said to be the fault of this story.

First of all, the huge leap in productivity does not mean that communism will come early. During the Industrial Revolution, many workers smashed machines because they believed that machines had taken their jobs. This is a true event in history. The leap in productivity and the liberation of labor does not mean that everyone can enjoy its results. Just like multinational companies grab a lot of profits, it is the capitalists at the top who benefit, while the workers in developed countries face the dilemma of unemployment.

The reason why the workers in the Beacon Country called for the return of their jobs is because their lives are actually not as good as in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, they only needed one person to work to raise a house and a car, but now they can’t, because Multinational companies have opened factories where labor is cheaper, and these workers are also facing unemployment and their lives are deteriorating.

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

For manual workers, such as takeaway brothers, courier brothers, workers, salespersons, etc., if such cheap bionics appear, they will inevitably lose their jobs. After losing their jobs, what can they do?

As for placing hope on the social security system...this is a rather wishful thinking. The capitalists are making a lot of money. If you want to steal money from them to support the poor, will they be happy? The Beacon Nation was originally a "corrupted" capitalist country. The big consortium controlled politics. You want to take money from the capitalists to establish communism. You have a lot of thoughts.

For these big consortia, it is not their business for the poor to live or die. As long as the poor do not rebel or revolutionize, they will not be willing to spend so much money when social conflicts are not intensified to the extreme. To maintain social stability.

The time point chosen in "Detroit: Becoming Human" is the time when the bionic technology suddenly appeared and rapidly changed society. It can be said that Detroit as a whole is not fully prepared for this transition, and the chaos reflected in the game The elephants are actually the pains brought about by the transformation.

Secondly, why does artificial intelligence have to be human? Because the most comprehensible fantasy of artificial intelligence at this stage is human beings.

Because human beings are the most advanced intelligent life we ​​know so far, if there is some kind of intelligent life higher than human beings, such as Trisolarans~IndoMTL.com~ then artificial intelligence may be made into Trisolarans Looks like.

If you have two types of housekeeping robots for you to choose, one is the robot Wali, with a crawler and a robotic arm; the other is Miss Kala, which one do you choose?

Obviously, the latter represents a more advanced form of artificial intelligence, that is...just like a human being, it is difficult to distinguish.

Strictly speaking, "fully controllable artificial intelligence" is lower than "artificial intelligence that is as uncontrollable as humans". If humans want to develop the most advanced artificial intelligence, it is almost certainly uncontrollable, otherwise it does not deserve to be called "the most advanced artificial intelligence."

Of course, one of the problems with "Detroit: Becoming Human" is that the world doesn't seem to have any pre-technology points for bionics.

For example, Luther was developed to be used to carry heavy objects, while Kala was used for housekeeping services, and some female bionics were used to meet special needs... These bionics should have been made long ago Because there is no need for such a high level of artificial intelligence, let alone making their thinking become like human beings. Wouldn't it be better to be a professional robot for things like carrying heavy objects? Why be a tall man with a black face?

For this, you can say that it is a bit far-fetched, but again, the near future sci-fi shows the future world of "slightly crooked science and technology tree", you can completely understand that people in this world just skipped The front technology is directly full of the technology points of the bionic.

The loopholes in the setting are the choices that we have to make in order to tell a good story. The important thing is not these details, but what the story wants to tell us and what we can learn from it.

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

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