stjorthotic Chapter 44 The Real-World Impact of Science Fiction
Chapter 44 The Real-World Impact of Science Fiction
Yu Zhen has launched a super satellite for Shanghai's literary scene.
The shocking news of the million-dollar overseas royalties spread like wildfire, first among official circles.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange authorities have really profited handsomely from this move.
A true double win in terms of fame and fortune.
Two science fiction books that have sold over a million copies have dominated the North American book market...
The significance behind it goes far beyond simply earning huge sums of money in royalties and foreign exchange.
Let's raise the bar even higher.
This move, in effect, allowed the image of this ancient civilization of the East to make a strong and positive international impact, perfectly reshaping the real image of this great Eastern power in the world of literature.
In addition, there was the favorable wind from the fact that East America and the United States had only recently established diplomatic relations.
Both countries' governments seized the opportunity to vigorously promote this wonderful cultural exchange, actively embarking on a honeymoon period together.
Against this backdrop, the media across the ocean have been lavish in their praise of Yu Zhen's two science fiction works, and the entire United States has been filled with positive and affirmative voices.
On the campus of one of the top ten engineering universities in the United States.
There are increasingly more rumors describing how a new research team in a certain laboratory has benefited greatly from the stories in these two mysterious Eastern science fiction novels, achieving groundbreaking new research results.
Also.
A scientific research and analysis expert from Silicon Valley specifically extracted and statistically analyzed 69 future technology application scenarios depicted in the two works.
Furthermore, it combines existing technological achievements with real-world applications to make astonishing predictions.
It is said that more than half of these application scenarios can be incorporated into people's daily lives in large quantities within ten years, or even five to seven years.
For example, the concept of virtual communities on the Internet...
For example, computer graphics and graphical form-based human-computer interaction applications...
Examples include email, games, digital audio and video, e-commerce, big data, and the Internet of Things...
It is said that in ten years from now, the use of high-tech products such as computers and the Internet will be as inseparable from people's daily lives as cars are today.
Inspired by the novel's depiction of personal computer products and applications in many realistic scenarios, Apple's Apple II PC, which had been established for three years, even experienced a surge in sales.
IBM, the "Big Blue," has even begun to seriously consider whether to increase investment in the research and development of personal PC products, abandoning its stubborn belief that supercomputers and mainframes dominate the world...
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who was obsessed with the small and sophisticated MS-DOS system, also gained a clearer vision of the future of computer products from novels, and began to think about the development architecture of a form-based operating system that could perfectly realize human-computer interaction...
Even the Chinese community in the United States, benefiting from this turmoil, has seen the already ingrained stereotype of them as intelligent, quick-witted, and exceptionally wise become even more deeply ingrained in the American public consciousness.
Following the "Channels Kung Fu" East China People's Association.
Skilled at developing innovative technological concepts, this has quickly become a new label for people from the East.
In his two works, Yu Zhen depicted far too many fascinating scenarios of future high-tech applications.
Moreover, the application scenarios he describes are not purely imaginary or abstract concepts found in other science fiction works.
Those 69 perfect application scenarios were identified and statistically analyzed by Silicon Valley analysts.
Basically, they all belong to the most daily needs and sights of people in the 21st century, covering all aspects of people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, so real that they couldn't be more real.
This subtly allows readers to easily empathize with the character.
In the eyes of scientific researchers, this is even more eye-catching, and they can easily switch to the exciting imagination of what kind of application scenarios can be developed and iterated with technology, and how long it will take to realize them in the future.
As the old saying goes, when it comes to any scientific research project, what we should never fear is the difficulty of overcoming challenges, but rather the lack of a precise and feasible direction for tackling the problem.
Drawing a pie in the sky first, then shooting at the target, makes a completely different difference in difficulty.
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The two science fiction works were published overseas and were a great success.
Domestic officials, of course, also gave it high praise.
The spirit of the Shanghai leadership team in being pioneers in literature and art during the first year of reform and opening up was fully affirmed.
It not only unexpectedly earned Shanghai's literary scene a prestigious reputation as the country's most proactive responder to the "Double Hundred Policy," but also a reputation for its bold innovation and pioneering spirit in the literary and artistic field.
At the same time, it also offers the most tangible and substantial expected foreign exchange gains.
Such a wonderful thing is nothing short of making a splash in local literary associations across provinces and cities, setting a trend and stealing the spotlight!
The Shanghai Stock Exchange is booming, while Shaanxi Province is filled with regret and is kicking itself.
Especially the Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association, those incompetent cadres were immediately shut down and severely punished after this incident.
In the domestic literary world, those voices that suppressed and condemned the countercurrent of science fiction works have become flexible and quickly begun to self-correct and adjust in the face of such absolute power.
After all, no matter how much you dwell on the past, reminisce about bitterness and appreciate sweetness, it won't bring you the astronomical royalties of millions of dollars in real life.
Since they are engaged in science fiction creation, they can reap huge profits in overseas markets.
Since the great writer Yu has already paved such a broad road for everyone with two science fiction works...
Why not jump on the bandwagon?!
Why not quickly prioritize making money?!
The literary circle has always been known for its flexibility.
Those self-reflective eccentrics in the literary world are now seeing things more clearly and are actively seeking ways to learn from and get closer to Comrade Yu Zhen.
At the end of June, publisher Mark finally completed all the necessary procedures for coming to Dongguo in a rush and immediately boarded a plane to Shanghai.
Mark Ruffalo was obviously there to secure the overseas rights to Yu Zhen's other sequels.
Those living in China have no idea how incredibly popular those two science fiction works have become, thanks to a series of coincidences and the deliberate promotion by the governments of both countries.
Indeed, a science fiction writer from an ancient Eastern empire with a 5-year-old, immortal civilization naturally possesses extraordinary appeal and influence in the hearts of the American people.
Not to mention the brilliance of his stories or the incredible futuristic technological concepts he conceived, which are so realistic they defy easy categorization.
That's practically like having God's hand sketch out humanity's future ten years from now for all readers.
Among readers in North America, this Eastern science fiction writer has already been given the prestigious title of "prophetic writer."
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Paul Allen, Gordon Moore, Ed Roberts...
One after another, the heads of American technology giants who had not yet truly risen to prominence became crazy fans of the "prophetic author," almost wanting to etch the 69 future technology application scenarios in the novel into their minds.
Putting aside the increasingly rumored, sinister influence of the North American tech industry.
In terms of current sales alone, it has completely crushed all its competitors of the same period, such as popular science fiction works like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Alien.
The combined sales of the two works are steadily approaching three million copies.
Those bookseller giants who once rejected Selena von and then came to her seeking publishing collaborations.
Now they are all filled with regret, and they are so anxious because they can't get in touch with Yu Zhen, the science fiction writer from the East.
Old Mark's company has now been completely revived.
Just by operating Yu Zhen's two works, the expected profit is already at least tens of millions of US dollars.
This wave of profits was truly enormous.