Text/Swimming Circle, Naranze Self Media Editorial Department
Many human visions and imaginations of the future world seem to be an innate talent, from the ancient "world under the same" prosperous expectations, to the modern emergence of a large number of science fiction, cyberpunk world, etc., people can't help but want to travel to the future to witness it with their own eyes.
Such entertainment works are emerging in an endless stream, such as the film and television drama "Westworld", "Terminator", the game "Cyberpunk 2077", etc., and the recent Tencent self-made variety show "Future New World" has made the audience shine with a full sense of near-futuristic science fiction.
"Future New World" is China's first unit script-based technology challenge reality show produced by Tencent News. Jiang Changjian, a top out-of-the-loop Science and Technology expert, together with traffic stars, jointly completed the challenge of science and technology, conveyed the importance of science and technology to change the fate of mankind, and disseminated the scientific wisdom that affects the present and the future.
The variety show takes the exploration of where human beings will go in the future and who is the driving force behind technology as the core, showing the problems faced by human beings in learning and life and the challenges and conveniences brought to people by contemporary scientific and technological progress.
Unlike other technology reality shows, "Future New World" gave the audience a strong sense of science and technology as soon as it appeared, and the first issue showed the simulation robot research technology and the mechanical exoskeleton technology that helped humans reduce the burden on the body and help people live conveniently.
Seeing this, some viewers may question whether "Future New World" will be another obscure and boring variety show. After all, in recent years, many domestic variety shows with high intentions and large proportions of science and technology have fallen into this embarrassing situation, but "Future New World" is not the case, the program group specially invited Peng Xizhe, Liu Wei and other social and scientific experts and scholars, and invited Fu Seoul, Wang Zijian and other debates, talk show stars, let them export their views.
In terms of program link settings, "Future New World" is also quite interesting, for example, in the first issue, the guest Jiang Changjian came to Dalian Simulation Machine Research Enterprise, which scanned Jiang Changjian's physical characteristics and produced a robot that was almost exactly the same as Jiang Changjian to ask him: Are you willing to let me live in this world forever instead of you? Although robots are still in the early stages of research and development, there is still a long way to go from symbiosis with humans, but how to balance between real people and robots is still a problem we need to think about.
In addition to philosophical thinking, "Future New World" also pays attention to the combination of science and technology and daily life, Wang Yuheng and Wang Zijian personally tried on the human mechanical exoskeleton and said bluntly with the help of exoskeleton equipment, the weight is much easier.
After that, the program team invited the uncle who often ran the stairs with weights to try on, but the final effect was not satisfactory, and the speed of the uncle walked with the naked eye. Obviously, while the exoskeleton equipment reduces the weight, it also limits the advantages and disadvantages of speed.
Of course, the overall direction is right, the development speed of exoskeleton equipment is also extremely rapid, but now the technology is not mature enough, can only appear in a small experimental field, can not be equipped to the general public, perhaps in the near future, we can really usher in the breakthrough of the physical limit, the whole people can use this equipment one day. From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand that the explorers of the program group gave this technology a high score.
Only for the audience, "Future New World" as a variety show, and other competitors in the market still have a big gap, especially in terms of entertainment, compared with high-quality popular science variety shows, the attraction is still not enough.
I hope that in the next program, "Future New World" can play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, bring more wonderful content to the audience, and also open up a completely different path for the domestic variety industry, so that the audience can see more interesting popular science programs.
In any case, in the field of popular science, domestic related programs are still relatively few, "Future New World" seized this gap, maybe there can be a new turnaround?
How many points do you think New World of the Future will score? Can it win public acceptance?