"Every emergence of new technologies affects our imagination of the future, such as breaking the barriers of traditional imagination when Western technology was imported in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty." On December 16, Ma Boyong, a writer known as "Ghost Talent", shared with the audience a speech entitled "Imagination of the Future, Never Stops One Side" at the NEX Extraordinary Museum in Chengdu, emphasizing the great function of imagination for human beings.
Ma Boyong's works are known for their unbridled imagination, and he shared his understanding of imagination at the scene of the speech.
Imagination is the wings of human wisdom, and each era imagines the future based on the level of intelligence of the time. Ma Boyong bought a book called "Fly, the Qing Empire", which recorded the rhapsody of celebrities such as Kang Youwei, Tan Sitong, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, and Lu Xun. For example, Kang Youwei envisioned a hanging spherical building called the Earth Ten Thousand Sounds Room, which was used to unify the language of all mankind and a museum for old texts, and he also envisioned that the fixed home of human beings would disappear in the future, and the home moving on the ground was called "Xingmu" and the home in the air was called "Flying Chamber", and he wanted to use this to love the "Datong World" throughout the universe such as Mars and Jupiter.
In people's impressions, masters such as Lu Xun and Kang Youwei have always been a serious image of the world and no scruples, sometimes even almost "broad", but they did not expect that their imaginations were so wild, showing an interesting side that people rarely know.
However, on the other hand, it can also be said that it is precisely our understanding of the word "interesting" that is too narrow, which will form an "too serious" stereotype of Lu Xun and Kang Youwei. The picture shows Lu Xun laughing.
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Interesting soul pick one
So what's fun?
There have always been many opinions, which can be described as "boring people are the same, interesting people are different" - talking and laughing is interesting, "duan" is interesting, hobbies are rich is interesting, traveling all over the world is interesting, and it may be interesting to be knowledgeable.
When it comes to Lolita, even people who have not read this novel have many names that know it. Nabokov is known as a master of language in his novel writing, and he also loved butterflies all his life, collecting many rare butterfly specimens. For several years he studied butterflies under a microscope for up to 14 hours a day. During those years he achieved many achievements in butterfly research: he published several academic papers, systematically classified The Eye Butterflies in South America using genital anatomy methods, discovered and named many Gray Butterflies, and in particular proposed a bold hypothesis: some of the Eye Grey Butterflies in South America passed through the Bering Strait from Asia.
Nabokov's hypothesis has been described by peers as "amateur speculation." But after his death, experts confirmed his hypothesis through DNA studies.
As "the best naturalist to write novels", Nabokov's love for butterflies stemmed from his passion for life, and even during his difficult years in exile in Europe, he used every possible time to observe butterflies. He withdrew his energy from the pursuit of fame and fortune outside his body, hid in a corner to maintain his interests, and persistently pursued them.
Being passionate about life can be fun, and being curious can be a source of fun. Especially scientists, based on their unique perspective of understanding the world, many things they are accustomed to may be given fresh interest by them, and many scientists have achieved a life that is not limited to a single thread, not limited to external expectations.
Of all the best scientists, Richard Feynman was the most playful. He won the Nobel Prize and is one of the greatest theoretical physicists of modern times. Like his wild scientific ideas, he is a real naughty boy in life. He was the only scientist in history invited by massage parlors to paint nude paintings; he worked as a drummer in the Brazilian samba orchestra; and he studied winning and losing odds with professional gamblers in casinos. Because of his cleverness, he became famous for unlocking and unlocking, especially using mathematical principles to guess the password of the safe, and he opened many safes, including the one with the top secret file of the atomic bomb. The reason why he is keen on pranks is often only to point out many absurdities in the world. Probably playing crazy and even afraid of himself, the later autobiography he simply named "Don't Make Trouble, Mr. Feynman".
The Feynmans are together, and Feynman likes to change the law to "surprise".
Through their stories, it can be found that fun is not only an evaluation of others, but also a definition and transcendence of the self, a perspective of the self and the world.
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Interesting, never more than one side
The future is never more than one side
People like to watch celebrity stories, and it is precisely to yearn for their diverse, wonderful, unconventional lives, and hope to live their unchanging days into wonderful novels. But not everyone dares to break through and practice, and the forces of social concepts and traditional customs tell you over and over again the price that "not doing the right thing" will inevitably pay.
However, the times are changing, and the gap between material abundance and monotonous spiritual life has brought more and more reflection, and young people are constantly asking: "If you define your life as stability at such a young age, what is the meaning of life?" ”
There will always be someone who says no, there will always be someone who comes out against the wind and shouts out: nothing in life is set in stone, except that death cannot be chosen, our life is full of possibilities, and everyone can break through themselves. As Ma Boyong said, "Human breakthroughs never follow the established path, and are always full of surprises and subversions." ”
At the "NEX Extraordinary Museum" in Chengdu, all the exhibits also answer this question: the future is never more than one side.
Artist Wu Ding's work, titled An Alternative Interpretation of Illogical Time.
Walking into the NEX Extraordinary Museum, you will be immediately shocked by the futuristic and mysterious sense of the exhibition hall. Whether it is in the "time machine" from the artist Wu Ding, like an alien spaceship, or the dual-screen illusion of mirroring each other and the two-story city above and below, or the NEX dual-screen version of the mobile phone placed in a conspicuous position, it gives people a cool high-tech feeling.
The nex extraordinary museum has been held for two consecutive years, and has become a long-term stable and accurate audience marketing IP, and finally become the most technological and artistic business card of NEX. This time, the NEX Extraordinary Museum wants to discuss with you the relationship between people and people, people and knowledge, people and the world, so that you can put aside the complicated appearances, return to the original self, to discover the other side that you are not aware of, to embrace the wider world; to break through yourself and have a more diverse life. As in response to the topic of "whether interesting people have more than one side", Zhou Yijun said: "Everyone is destined to change multiple faces." Each face-changing is not erasing the front, but only expanding the definition of the self, a richer self. ”
The "double-sided mirror" of this exhibition area, where you can explore different aspects of yourself.
How does the NEX Extraordinary Museum lead people to explore themselves? In the "Original Me" exhibition area, the interior of the exhibition area has two three-dimensional double-sided screen columns, which reflect the reflection of the mirror around the perimeter, and the double-sided screen pillars reflect each other, presenting the effect of double-screen illusion. In the mirror is your exterior and your inner narration. This is a bit like the "mirror moment" in the classic science fiction film "Inception"—two parallel mirrors face each other to create an infinite array of mirror images, and according to Freud's theory, dreams fundamentally reflect the human spirit and psychology, which from the surface and the inside, correspondingly from the self and the self into the superego. In the different sections of the Extraordinary Museum, unique exhibits can inspire you to discover a new side.
The careful combination of art and technology is to encourage consumers to discover "more than one side" of life and explore "more than one side of you". Things are made up of multiple faces, and technology should expand, not limit, the user's experience. Because of this concept, the "NEX Dual Screen Edition" was born, and you can experience and feel it in the NEX Extraordinary Museum.
Mirroring in the mirror, the phone in the phone, as if in an infinite loop. The screen changes from one to two, adding multiple possibilities.
There is no bangs screen, no front camera, the front is the zero boundary full screen, and the back is the star ring overflow screen. From the front and rear cameras, directly upgraded to the rear triple camera lens, to achieve a higher definition of selfie effect. You can use the front and back screens to let others take pictures for you, and you can command through the screen; you can also use the double screen for multitasking, Ma Boyong's long-troubled "how to play the mobile phone in front of his son without being reprimanded by him" Problem, suddenly solved, the son no longer grabs the mobile phone with his father.
There is also a "dual screen multi-tasking" function, the front and rear screens have different functional partitions, one screen to play games, one screen to return information; one screen to read, one screen to work... Mastering such a "black technology" will definitely inspire you to break the routine and have the courage to change your face in life. Ma Boyong was also inspired to write a science fiction novel about how dual-screen mobile phones will affect the future. The products that no one predicted were created by technology, which triggered many reverie for the future! This is the inspiration brought to us by the NEX dual-screen version of the mobile phone.
Advances in technology have expanded the boundaries of imagination, revealing another side of the future that deviates from our expectations. There is more than one side to the future, and only unfettered thinking can break the inertial cognition and bring about the experience of multiple perceptions.
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