Chapter 983 (1/2)

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.