Through hand-drawn illustrations, the book introduces the public to scientific knowledge such as machine learning, the Turing test, brain-computer interface, virtual social interaction, etc. Its aim is to develop readers’ scientific thinking and encourage more people, especially children, to think about scientific issues. Topics and Qamp;As in the book originate from questions raised by readers during their interaction with the author on We Media platform, which to some extent can represent children’s thinking and interests about a specific sci-fi scenario.
Wang Yuanzhuo is a researcher at CAS Institute of Computing Technology, a doctoral supervisor, the dean of Institute of Big Data Research, the chief designer of Macro-safety of CAS Institute of Computing Technology, the head of open knowledge network computing in National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Analysis Systems, and a member of CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association. He was once awarded Top 10 China Science Communicators of the Year 2019, and the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Lu Yuan, master of control engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing, serves as a back-end platform product developer at JJ World (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Science in Sci-fi Movies
Wang Yuanzhuo, Lu Yuan
Popular Science Press
July 2021
58.00 (CNY)