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Detroit: human transformation "was a futuristic sci-fi movie.

In the real world, technology and the development and changes of social form complemented each other. Just like the GPS positioning technology, it affected all aspects of everyone's life and profoundly changed people's lifestyles.

If in the future, there was the emergence of neural connection, anti-gravity devices, controlled nuclear fusion, ultra-long-distance teleportation, and other black technology, then any one of them could change the real world.

In a large amount of black technology, which one appeared first and which one appeared later could have a completely different impact on the real world and transform the social structure into a completely different appearance.

This was what the so-called "clicking on the wrong technology tree" meant.

Many movies and TV series with sci-fi elements were just old bottles of new wine. The future they created was completely unconvincing, precisely because the technology tree was too crooked. For example, in a certain movie, kanda technology was so developed, but the social system was extremely backward. In the face of an alien invasion, the leader actually went into battle with the enemy, which inevitably made people feel very absurd.

For a story, it didn't matter if it wasn't rigorous. The key was to see what it wanted to express and what the audience and players would experience.

From this point of view, the "near future sci-fi" theme was a more controllable choice.

This "near-future science fiction" referred to the small progress in technology that would affect human behavior and social form in a short period of time. Under the condition that the overall data remained unchanged, only a small variable was taken to explore some deeper social problems.

Detroit: the change of people was such a world. Strictly speaking, this was not a future world, but a world that just happened to deviate from the technology tree. Compared to the real world, the only technological leap was the Android technology. The rest was the same. Transportation, housing, guns ... There was not much difference between this and modern society.

This was also what the game was trying to explore: "What kind of impact will artificial intelligence and Android technology have on our society once they appear?

Most people's doubts about the game were mainly concentrated on two points.

First, this was clearly a huge leap in productivity. Why did it aggravate the injustice in society?

Second, why did artificial intelligence have to look like humans?

In fact, these two points could be explained. It was a matter of opinion, but it could not be said to be the weakness of the story.

First of all, the huge leap in productivity did not mean the early arrival of communism. During the Industrial Revolution, many workers smashed machines because they thought they were taking away their jobs. This was a true historical event. The leap in productivity and the liberation of the labor force did not mean that everyone could enjoy its results. It was just like how multinational companies seized a large amount of profits, and the ones who benefited were the top capitalists, while the workers in developed countries were faced with the dilemma of unemployment.

The reason why the workers of the lighthouse nation called for the return of their jobs was that their lives were not as good as those in the 60s and 70s. At that time, they only needed one person to work and they could afford a house and a car. But now, it was no longer possible because the multinational companies had opened their factories in places with cheaper labor. These workers were also facing the dilemma of unemployment, and their lives were getting worse and worse.

It was true that productivity had increased, but the direct beneficiaries were the executives of big companies, capitalists, and politicians. For the middle class of society, it was indeed a good thing to be able to buy an Android with a small amount of money. However, for the bottom class of society, the Android would cause them to lose their jobs, which was a very normal phenomenon.

For physical workers, such as delivery men, delivery men, workers, saleswomen, and so on, if such cheap Bionics appeared, they would definitely lose their jobs. What could they do after losing their jobs?

As for putting hope on the social protection system ... This was a one-sided thought. The capitalists made a lot of money. If you wanted to Rob them of their money to support the poor, would they be happy? Lighthouse was originally a "decadent" capitalist country, and the big consortiums controlled the politics. If you wanted to take money from the capitalists to establish communism, you were thinking too much.

For these major consortiums, the life and death of the poor did not matter to them. As long as the poor did not rebel or revolutionize, they would not be willing to spend so much money to maintain social stability before the social contradictions were intensified to the extreme.

"Detroit: change" chose a time when Android technology suddenly appeared and rapidly changed society. It could be said that all of Detroit was not fully prepared for this change, and the chaos reflected in the game was actually the pain of the change.

Secondly, why did artificial intelligence have to look like a human? This was because at this stage, the most understandable fantasy humans had about artificial intelligence was humans themselves.

This is because humans are currently the most advanced intelligent life we know. If there is an intelligent life that is more advanced than humans, such as the tribody, then the artificial intelligence may have to be made into a tribody.

Let's say there are two types of housework robots for you to choose from. One is the robot Wall-E, with caterpillar tracks and mechanical arms; The other one is miss ka Ren, which one do you choose?

Obviously, the latter represented a more advanced form of artificial intelligence, which was ... Exactly the same as human beings and difficult to distinguish.

Strictly speaking,"fully controllable artificial intelligence" was of a lower level than "artificial intelligence that was as uncontrollable as human beings." If humans wanted to develop the most advanced artificial intelligence, it would almost certainly be uncontrollable. Otherwise, it would not be worthy of being called the "most advanced artificial intelligence."

Of course, one of the problems with "Detroit: human transformation" was that this world didn't seem to have any pre-android technology.

For example, Luther was developed to carry heavy objects, while kadier was developed for domestic service, and some female androids were developed to meet special needs ... These androids should have been created a long time ago because there was no need for such a high level of artificial intelligence, nor was there a need to make their thinking the same as humans. Wouldn't it be better to be a professional robot for carrying heavy objects? Why did he have to be a tall man with a black face?

You could say that this was a little far-fetched, but as the saying goes, near-future sci-fi represents the future world where the technology tree is "crooked." You could completely understand it as the people of this world just happened to skip the previous technologies and directly focused on the technology of the androids.

A loophole in the setting was a choice that had to be made in order to tell a good story. The important thing was not the details, but what the story wanted to tell us and what we could learn from it.

It was a touching story, and that was enough.