Group Research Project : Read By Hanwen Hu

25/9/2022

1. The Veldt:

In Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt, there exists an intelligence nursery that can help in raising children in virtual reality, in the article, there is a problem with this education method, which leads to the distortion of the child’s heart and eventually kills the parents, however, I think virtual reality can play a great role when combined with real-life education. I imagine a VR instrument that can simulate relevant scenes according to requirements, and it can help students experience some real-life situations according to relevant requirements. It is difficult to find even more dangerous scenarios in chemistry, such as simulated laboratories for chemistry and simulated landforms for geography. This technology is actually not far away, technologies such as virtual agriculture have already appeared in real life, and such products can be expected in the foreseeable future.

However,this technology may also be used in bad ways such as terrifying people,or if we use VR to teach student to get away from dangerous things,they may disbelieve about those danger since there’s no real danger in the VR world.

2.The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

In this fiction，the concept of a flowing light source attracted me. Although it is not described in the novel, I think that if there is a light source that senses people’s movements and the external environment and adjusts the light accordingly, it will make life interesting and much more convenient. And now there have been infrared-sensing lights, which will choose whether to light up according to the distance and time of the person. If this technology is combined with a more artistic light source transformation, then the technology I imagined should not be too difficult to achieve.

3.The Plague

This article is more like a love story, which is also in line with Yan Leisheng’s consistent style – explaining science fiction stories with delicate humanities and emotions, and the sculptures in the article are still “alive” because they are still “alive”, which makes me Think of the new possibilities of sculpture art – if an artificial electronic nervous system and a metal skeleton are implanted in the sculpture, so that it can truly “move slowly”, then a sculpture will have many possibilities. And this technology has actually been applied to most of the robots.

However，it may also cause some problems that this sculpture may lose control and do harm to people or places where they are.