There were 10,000 points left. Zhang Zhong thought about it and decided to use these 10,000 points.
"Let's draw a lottery." Zhang Zhong gave an order to the system.
【Lottery in progress.】
[The lottery is over, congratulations on winning the work "After School".]
After school?
Zhang Zhong's mood was a bit complicated. This was the third novel by Keigo Higashino that he had drawn. The first two were "Jieyou Grocery Store" and "The Devotion of Suspect X", and "The Devotion of Suspect X" he was because of
The reason for the style has not been released, and it is still in my hands.
"After School" is definitely Keigo Higashino's famous work, and it was also the first peak of his writing career. At that time, this book also won the 31st Edogawa Rampo Award. That year, Keigo Higashino was only in his second year.
Seventeen years old.
But ten years after this peak, his writing career began to decline.
In this regard, it is a bit like Zhao Re. He became famous in one book and then fell silent for ten years. However, Zhao Re is still in silence now. As for whether he can be reborn from nirvana like Keigo Higashino, it still depends on him.
Zhang Zhong likes this book very much, but now he wants the content in front of "I, Robot" even more.
The most important thing is that he just drew short stories from "I, Robot" three times in a row, which made Zhang Zhong mistakenly think that if he continued to draw, he would still be able to draw other short stories from "I, Robot" even if he could not draw the previous content. However,
Facts show that this is not the case, and other books will still be drawn.
Zhang Zhong sat on the sofa and touched his head. After thinking for a while, he made a decision.
He will distribute this book "After School" in a while, and he will not give up "I, Robot". Now it just lacks a beginning chapter, so he can just do it himself.
Anyway, he has read the original work and remembers it in detail. As long as he puts some thought into it, he can always write out the beginning.
Moreover, he also made a decision to completely Chineseize the book "I, Robot" and make it a Chinese book.
Just as he was told, he took out his laptop and began to write the three short stories he had just picked out in order.
After writing it, he did not rush to Chineseize these three articles, but scratched his head and began to recall the content of the original work.
There is a preface in the original work, which is probably the crux of the book, explaining the person who wrote the story and the person who narrated it.
The work is in the first person, "I" went to interview a robot psychologist named Susan.
Susan originally appeared in Asimov's third robot novel "The Liar" before the novel collection came out. However, in order to make the story coherent and the causes and consequences logical, she was placed at the beginning as the narrative of the story.
who.
Zhang Zhong roughly went through Susan's resume in his mind. Because she often appears in Asimov's novels and is a very important character, it is not difficult to do this.
Susan was born in 1982. When she was sixteen, she wrote her first paper on the theme of "Usage Level of Robot Learning".
In 2002, she saw an early-stage robot equipped with voice functions demonstrated by Alfred at a mental mathematics seminar, and her interest in robots was sparked.
In 2003, he obtained a degree from Columbia University and began to study model control at the graduate school, learning to construct a positronic brain and predict the positronic brain's response to given stimuli.
…
In fact, when Zhang wanted to write "I, Robot", in addition to perfecting the missing parts and localizing it, he also had a very important and difficult task.
After all, this book was published on Earth in 1950, and many of the assumptions made at that time are no longer appropriate now.
Although the imagination of "I, Robot" is very advanced, it is completely inconsistent with today's era, and today's research and understanding of robots are more in-depth.
Many ideas that were considered advanced a few decades ago may seem silly now.
The reason why Zhang Zhong attaches great importance to this book is the moral discussion about humans and robots.
Robots have been around for so long, and of course they have been discussed in both the scientific and literary circles. There are also many opinions about robots.
But until now, no one has written anything like the three laws of robotics.
It’s not that no one has invented rules, it’s just that there haven’t been such simple, clear and practical rules. This has led to different writers having different understandings in novels involving robots, and thus different rules have been derived.
Zhang Zhong noticed a science fiction novel two days ago. The setting for robots is as follows: strictly obey the orders of the master.
This setting is relatively crude, and the robot becomes a purely private tool or even a weapon.
And such a setting can easily cause panic. After all, if you see a robot on the road, no one knows who the owner of the robot is. Maybe he is a terrorist and will take out a bomb from his arms at any time.
There are also novels in which robots are set up like pets. The robot must be by the owner's side before it can move, and no unauthorized actions are allowed.
These settings are also divided into conservative and radical groups. Conservatives will actively limit the intellectual development of robots and will not allow robots to think independently. However, in this way, the development of robots will face bottlenecks.
Radicals, on the other hand, feel that there can be no restrictions and as long as human rules and laws are input into the robot's program, they will become more law-abiding than humans.
In fact, these rules all have their merits, and they are not necessarily worse than the three laws. It’s just that the three laws are the most macroscopic, the simplest, and most importantly, the most pretentious.
No one is stupid enough to think that the three laws can solve the problem of robots. Readers know that the three laws are just the laws of science fiction, not the laws of science.
Science fiction and science must be separated.
Zhang Zhong slowly typed Susan's resume on the computer.
Then he reopened an interface. He needed to throw away all the development history of robots in "I, Robot" and reconstruct a new development process of robots.
Of course, this matter is not simple. He also needs to check the development of robots in the world, such as which year was the first robot equipped with voice function and which year was the intelligent robot.
Then he also needs to know some knowledge about robots in order to complete the story background in the book.
What he is doing now is equivalent to rewriting a book with a story outline that does not conform to the real world. The core of the story has not changed, but the shell of the story has been completely different.