Of course, there are too few technological achievements in the transformation of scientific knowledge, and we can only do evil. Most of them can not only benefit society, but also harm society and harm others and themselves. Therefore, "double-edged sword" is their most accurate metaphor.
Using scientific inventions to dominate the world is an example of a "double-edged sword". Verne was the first person to describe a scientific madman. In "Lord of the World", he described a madman Robil hiding in the crater. He invented amphibious vehicles as a hegemonic means. However, Verne is a loyal elder, and it is always inappropriate to write bad people. The image of "world master Robert" is also very funny.
In Wells' Invisible Man, Griffin became furious after he became invisible and called himself "Invisible Man I". However, he didn't even rule a remote English village, so he was rounded up by the villagers as a monster and died.
In The Great Dictator, the former Soviet writer Beliaev created a typical image of a scientific madman. German psychologist Steiner studied the information transmission between animals for a long time, and finally invented a device that directly controls other people's thinking with brainwaves. He left the scientific community and joined the financier gottlieb. First, he controlled gottlieb and his main assistant, then his business rivals, and even created stock market turmoil for his profits. Finally, Steiner's plot was discovered. He used this weapon to confront the armies of several countries, leaving the attacking troops at a loss and fleeing in panic. Steiner's plot failed only when his Soviet counterparts attacked him with the same weapon. Soviet scientists have transformed the instrument that controls others' thinking into a tool for the benefit of mankind: it has greatly accelerated the information transmission between human individuals, coordinated collective labor, and even made a band no longer have a conductor.
Zhao Nanyuan once said: The disasters and calamities caused by moral lunatics and religious lunatics are endless in history, and also abound in reality. Science madman only appears in Hollywood science fiction horror movies. Therefore, in recent years, the people who use science to do evil in science fiction writers' works are no longer the lunatics who always want to control the world. These villains want to achieve some more specific, less influential but more realistic goals through the new technology at hand.
Robin cook is good at "medical horror novels". Death Hormone is one of his sci-fi medical horror novels. Death hormone is an inherent hormone in human body, which is secreted by pituitary gland like growth hormone, but it will only appear after the secretion of sex hormones stops. Doctor Hayes was inspired by Pacific salmon, which died immediately after spawning. Hayes finally extracted the inducer of death hormone from salmon head. When injected into an organism, death hormone can be released immediately in large quantities.
Hayes works in a large membership health care center. Some successful middle-aged people join this health care center in order to get lifelong health care treatment. However, for some time, there have always been some middle-aged people who died suddenly. They all have bad habits of smoking and drinking, but their experiences before entering the health care center show that their physical condition is still normal. When they die, their cardiovascular system is extremely aging. Hayes himself was finally included in this death list. These seemingly normal deaths aroused the suspicion of Dr. Jason. After repeated investigations, he finally found out that Shirley and others in the health care center secretly gave these people the death hormone inducer extracted by Hayes, so that they would die early, so as to avoid being forced to provide a large number of free drugs after aging.
At the end of the novel, several characters in the book directly discuss the good and evil of science and technology on the issue of death hormone, and whether it is necessary to set up laws to restrain scientists from inventing at will. This shows that the author has a conscious understanding of the good and evil of science when creating.
/kloc-at the end of 0/9 century, skyscrapers were born in the United States, which soon became a symbol of the combination of technology and wealth. In the second half of the 20th century, many countries and regions in East Asia joined the competition of skyscrapers, and the speed at which high-rise buildings sprang up cannot be described as "mushrooming". And the high cost burden and disaster hidden danger brought by skyscrapers have also become the focus of people's attention. The novel "The Burning Skyscraper" takes this as its theme.
When the novel came out, the tallest building in the world was the Sears Tower in Chicago. In the story, the author fictionalizes the new first floor of the world, which is located opposite the Sears Tower, so that at the end of the novel, the rescue team can set up a steel rope between the Sears Tower and the "first floor of the world" to save people. The boss on the first floor of the world cut corners in order to catch up with the construction period, which led to excessive circuit load and a dark fire on the opening day. The unique "stack effect" of skyscrapers makes the dark fire go up layer by layer until the top floor. There, hundreds of dignitaries are holding a celebration ceremony. Due to safety negligence and other reasons, when people find a fire, it can't be put out.
The concern about the fire hazard of skyscrapers is expressed through the mouth of the fire chief. After the fire broke out, the fire chief came to the scene, met the architect and asked the latter, "You know that fire fighting technology can't do anything for fires over seven floors. Why do you want to build such a high building?" Finally, he said something even more horrible: Today was not bad, only 200 people died. In the future, similar fires will cause thousands of deaths. Only in this way will you know what kind of building you should build! The film was shot in the 1980s, and ten years later, this terrible prediction came to the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. In the 9 1 1 attack, the casualties of the Pentagon were far less than those of the World Trade Center. 9 1 1 attack If there were no "cheers" from tall buildings, it might just be an enlarged Lockerbie air crash.
This novel was later adapted into a film, with a large number of celebrities participating in it, which was quite influential. Only at the end of the novel, many people, including the governor, did not escape from the fire. The film added a brighter ending: rescuers blew up the water tank on the roof and put out the fire. But that's not reality. The water in the water tower on the roof is really a drop in the bucket for the raging flame like the 9 1 1 incident.
1972, mankind crossed the threshold of transgenic technology in Stanford University. It releases an almost infinite possibility: according to human needs, the genes of different species are mixed together to create new species that are not found in nature. As soon as gene technology was born, it was immediately applied to agricultural science and technology, creating a large number of new species. While providing high-yield crops, they also created a big storm against accepting and resisting genetically modified crops. Not long ago, a storm that farmers destroyed genetically modified experimental fields in Wuhan showed that this wave of resistance has now blown to China. The short science fiction "Doing Good for Heaven" is set in genetically modified crops.
In this novel, American MSD Biological Company invested 2 billion dollars to successfully cultivate "devil strain" wheat. It has high yield, disease resistance and good quality. In order to prevent farmers from storing the harvested wheat, MSD company mixed the toxic protein gene that caused infertility into the gene of devil wheat. In this way, the second generation of wheat seeds would not grow without the special solvent that the company secretly mastered to inhibit the toxic protein gene. This is understandable for the means of protecting intellectual property rights. A junior employee of MSD Company is responsible for marketing it to Shaanxi, China. In the first year, the harvest was excellent. In the second year, some farmers secretly stored seeds, resulting in the loss of large areas of wheat fields. Although MSD has done a lot of preventive research, this suicide gene has spread to other wheat varieties because of the carrying function of some special viruses. Black dead wheat spread like a plague.
In the "bad science" works about grain, immortal grain is also a very interesting example. Blay, a scientist in Beliaev, is not only harmless, but also has no commercial purpose like MSD. He cultivated a single-celled organism, which can directly obtain nutrition from the air, expand itself, can be eaten directly, and become an "eternal food". However, this "eternal food" not only failed to solve the hunger problem, but also led to the bankruptcy of farmers and aggravated the economic crisis. Finally, with the arrival of summer, the appropriate temperature makes the "eternal grain" multiply rapidly, covering one piece of land after another, becoming a man-made disaster.
Network technology has spread to the whole world with the trend of blowout since it appeared in 1970s. Among the people I know, no one who has been online will choose not to contact the internet from now on. It has become the work and life style of many people. But the internet has also made many people addicted and become its prisoners. Nowadays, the problem of Internet addiction has become a new educational problem. According to the author's observation, adults have a large number of Internet addiction patients, but they are independent and responsible, unlike teenagers who have guardians to reflect this problem to public opinion.
In the short science fiction novel Pink-purple Dandelion, Xinghe describes a future world where Internet addiction is widespread. In this era not far from now, Internet addiction has become a serious social problem, and even requires compulsory withdrawal. Like today's drug rehabilitation centers, the judicial system has also seen a net-free prison. The novel describes the reaction of internet addicts: they are upside down day and night, unable to work, difficult to communicate with others, stubbornly looking for internet tools everywhere, and even using prison riots to resist compulsive addiction. And because the author uses the first person, from the perspective of an internet addict, this story shows the harm of internet addiction. The serious physiological reaction described in the novel has already existed in some Internet addiction patients.
The author also conceives the specific measures of compulsory abstinence from Internet addiction in the future: First, it is mandatory to let addicts basically leave the network, which is backed by law. Of course, in order not to have a nervous breakdown, they will surf the Internet with restrictions under supervision. Then force addicts to participate in high-intensity activities. A person who has been sitting in front of a computer for many years is in rather bad health. In addition, addicts are forced to read printed books and gradually get rid of their dependence on computers.
1928, an accidental phenomenon in the laboratory, coupled with the prepared mind of British medical scientist Fleming, helped mankind enter the era of antibiotics. Nowadays, antibiotics have become a common weapon for doctors. However, the abuse of antibiotics leads to the increase of bacterial drug resistance, which also forms new medical problems. The novel Life and Death Balance describes this theme. Although the author Wang Jinkang has long been a minor celebrity in the sci-fi circle, he can attract public attention outside the sci-fi circle, largely because of this novel, because it involves a thorny issue at the forefront of science and technology today.
Set in the Middle East, the novel describes the story of a military madman launching a germ war against neighboring countries. A parallel clue is the Huangfu family's research on "balanced medicine". As a fictional element in the novel, balanced medicine itself is not important. It is important that the author tells his concern about antibiotic abuse through this element. Through the mouth of the medical madman Huangfu Youshan, the author wrote: "Drug-resistant strains have developed like floods, even common bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Shigella dysenteriae have drug-resistant strains, and antibiotics can do nothing. The amount of penicillin used to treat sepsis has increased from tens of thousands of units to tens of millions of units, but the mortality rate has still risen to the level before the emergence of antibiotics. " Science fiction world, 97, 5, 15.
The author even invented a case of renal failure. This is a member of Gao Qian's family. It is because of her position that she can use a lot of new drugs and good drugs, and has been caught in the trap of abusing antibiotics for more than 20 years. The author used a long medical record to describe how she gradually recovered from a minor illness and was finally surrounded by drugs.