I don't know when, the shelves of the bookstore's science fiction zone began to be filled with wizards, elves and warcraft; the Star Wars series was even released into the nostalgic zone; crazy computer networks, raging viruses and microbes became the protagonists of hard science fiction. Since when did it begin to collapse along with the ceiling of the Russian space shuttle "Blizzard"? Was it the time when NASA gradually degenerated from a dreamlike institution to become a minion of the military and reduced to the time when it was only relying on exaggerating the military threats of China and Russia to get money from Congress?
Humans seem to be surprisingly content with being in their cradle. No, maybe it is not satisfactory, because behind the Matrix and G virus, we can see the anxiety and madness of human beings.
Just now, the two hours spent under the giant screen of IMAX made me regain this lost excitement, and made me realize that the starry sky is not a black cloth dotted with white dots, but endless space and possibilities. , Is eternal time and mystery.
Silent space battles, the technical details of the warp engine, and the teleporter must be used with the "Heisenberg" compensator to be stable. A group of Klingon texts collected by linguists... Star Trek is such a movie that strives to pursue fantasy. Works of scientific correctness. It affects a lot of people, not to mention that most of NASA's astronauts claimed that they chose to explore the starry sky because of ST. Even the designer of Motorola, the creator of flip phones, said frankly that their first flip phone In fact, it was inspired by the tricoder in ST.
In the past two decades, the changes in hard science fiction themes and the decline of science fiction themes themselves, as well as the rise of magic/fantasy themes. On the one hand, the focus of the frontier of science has shifted from space exploration to biology and IT; on the other hand, it can also be seen that with the end of the Cold War confrontation, people do not need to form nations with each other and use collective power to protect themselves. Therefore, there are hundreds of people on a starship, and only a few people in the bridge really have the plot. Such a somewhat authoritarian organizational structure is not as attractive as a magic hero who turns things around. With the rise of individualism + free economy, those protagonists who are knowledgeable and close to scientists + philosophers in the bridge no longer receive extra respect. Most of them are reduced to supporting characters in heroic stories or handed over to the protagonist. After a powerful weapon, I received a bento. What's more, scientists are portrayed as human self-destructive weaving like in the Terminator or Resident Evil. Of course, they are more of a little bit like the scientists in the big bang theory. Cute laughing stock.
In the era of the Cold War, whether people in the East and the West, the fear of war is the theme of life, and it also makes life easier. Apart from fear, people also have time, and at the same time they seem to have the willingness to imagine a completely equal planet free of wars, poverty and disease. Sulu, the Asian helmsman in the Enterprise bridge, Chekov, the Russian weapon officer, Uhura, the African-American female communications officer, and the long-eared Spock that people have to pay attention to are the beautiful utopias of people in that depressed era.
And modern people, living in a relatively better world, most people can actually almost completely control their own destiny. But in the face of the infinite possibilities and more challenges of life, what I imagined is the anxiety about the apocalyptic zombies and the murderous network, or the complete fantasy and traversal of nothingness. It seems that every age is the best age and the worst age. Oh yeah, Mr. Dickens, you have always been right.
Apart from lamenting the great dream that mankind has lost, I also noticed the ideals that we have abandoned on the road of personal growth. The price behind our mental maturity seems to be far greater than we thought.
Look up at the stars, classmates, at least tonight...
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