2022/7/21EIE1D031AI and Science Fiction Filename: eie1D03-science-fiction.pdf Richard Pang [email protected]
Contents Brief History of Science Fiction Themes Technology Portrayed in Science Fiction AI and Science Fiction Human Beings and AI Machines Science Fiction - Science Fiction Books - Science Fiction Movies - Chinese Science Fiction 2022/7/21EIE1D032
Definition of Science Fiction (wiki) A genre (類型/體裁) of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel,time travel, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations. A framework used by authors to explore politics, identity, desire, morality, social structure, and other literary themes. ( It is difficult to have a precise definition. “You do not know what it is, but you know it when you see it.”) 2022/7/21EIE1D033
Brief History … Verne‘s (儒勒·凡爾納) adventure stories: notablyJourney to the Center of the Earth(地心遊記,1864),From the Earth to the Moon(從 地球到月球,1865), andTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea( 海底兩萬裡,1869) Wells’s(威爾斯) stories:The Time Machine(時間機器,1895), time travel Early 20th Century: birth of the pulps, modernist writing, science fiction's impact on the public The Golden Age (1940s and 1950s): Astounding Science Fiction, the other media (Asimov on The Golden Age of Science Fiction ) … Science fiction in the 1980s:Cyberpunk(網路駭客),center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth 2022/7/21EIE1D034
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