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Too many people are talking today'Scientific revolution ' , 'Technological revolution 'These words, a lot of it is clear Period of technological accumulation The product is hard Marketing With 'Cross-age', 'subvert the future', 'revolutionary innovation' What kind of product is it? What is the technological revolution? BrotherYi I can't give it a very accurate definition. It can only be said simply: The advancement of technology often leads to the liberation of productivity, changes in productivity and production relations that change the composition of society as a whole. Know, class.

The technological revolution often has to subvert an era, breaking the existing rules of human beings from beginning to end, so when it comes, some people cheer, some people are angry, some are appreciated, some are opposed, and the reputation of people thinks about the benefits it will bring, against People angered the old moral regulations will be broken by it. The next four articles, BrotherYi, will bring you a new perspective and remember the precious wealth that technological progress has left us.

The first technological revolution: steam power

August 18, 1807, Location: Hudson River, New York. Americans Fulton With the help of friends, I finally started a steam ship with a length of 45 meters, a width of 4 meters and a draft of 20 inches on the Hudson River. The ship name is 'Clermont ' number. Claremont No. from New York sailing along the Hudson River, 30 hours later The Claremont sails after 240 kilometers Arrived at the end of Albany City. The first test was successful, the people on both sides of the strait watched the steamboat cheering and encouraged the steam era to come.

However, the spokesperson of the steam era is not the United States but the British side of the ocean. After centuries of development of the predecessors (the combination of politics and religion, constitutional monarchy, Cromwell unified the three islands, industrial revolution, overseas expansion,) June 28, 1838, before Victoria, who passed his 19th birthday in a month, was crowned Queen in Westminster Abbey (Westminster Abbey) and Queen of England in 1876. Britain ushered in its strongest ever-day empire .

Equivalent to local 111 times 4. In overseas colonies, the material level has developed at a very high speed. United Kingdom Usher in Center of the world route The treasures of the world are gathered together. The entire Victorian era is very magical: Political system of Royal power and constitution Peer, female Start being liberation but State religion (Christian) is still strong, although Great Britain was at the time World civilization Peak representative But its achievements mainly depend on brutal of Overseas colonization Strategy. This contradictory community era began before Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. After Queen Victoria's death in 1901, it continued into the first battle. This is the Victorian era that made the world unforgettable, leaving the world with a deep imprint of the Victorian era. There are so many things, because of the limited space, BrotherYi picks some of them more familiar, Wei Mengxiu is what I don't know.

The end of the great voyage era 'pirate', 'navy', 'treasure' become the past

The famous Vikings ravaged the world by stalking the sea without a trace, but the popularity of pirates from the profession to the steamboat began to decline sharply. Because the journey time of the rising speed is shorter, the shore defense policy is better. The time is greatly shortened. Therefore, it is impossible to eat the sea looters by the sky. Although the pirates have disappeared because of the advancement of navigation technology, the legendary story of the pirates and the naval turn of the countries of that period appeared in various arts and crafts. Works. The famous series "Pirates of the Caribbean" looks like a magical story, mixed and mixed with many modern elements, but its background setting is the British colonial era. In addition to the character set in the movie, there are many things that reveal this design. Set. For example:

Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, 3 all mentioned this slightly, until Captain Jack of the Pirates of the Caribbean screamed at the Governor's Office set up by the British East India Company. The copy of the text was set up. The evidence of the soldiers in the Governor's Office was examined. It is not difficult to find that the 18th century British uniforms were restored: Red Coat.

As early as Cromwell (1559-1658), the uniform of the British army was changed to the style of Red Coat (Red Shirt Army) during the British United War. The British army was called the Red Shirt Army. Red Shirt Army Collar, Red The style of the coat has also been used in a variety of small changes. Although the era of pirates was ended by the gunboats of the sea power countries (English, Western, Portuguese, Dutch), 'pirates' and 'Navy', 'slaves' , 'Treasure' became the symbol of the great maritime era, the colonial era.

Modern police system and the explosion of the century 'inferential detective' story

The industrial revolution forced a large number of workers to go to the city, and Europe and the United States gradually came out to maintain law and order. Modern police system In the first half of the 19th century, the British police system became more and more perfect. At this time, the literary and artistic works corresponding to the police detective theme became popular. The origin of the detective novels was very early. In 1843, the famous American weak Allan Poe published the murder of Mog Street. Case, China, 1897 Fujian Translator Lin Biao translates a hot global detective novel -"Sherlock Holmes"To China. Lin Biao translated it into "The Opening of the Sherlock" case, in which the protagonist's name is Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

That's right, this novel was in 1887. Arthur Conan Doyle started serializing the series "Sherlock Holmes" in the magazine. Conan Doyle ignited the world's passion for the creation of detective literary works, the famous Japanese mystery novelist Edo In 1923, Chuan Caobu also created his debut novel "Two Money and Copper Coins". In 1954, he established the Edo River Tragic Detective Fiction Award in honor of the 60th birthday of Edo River. Became an award in Japan to encourage newcomers to create reasoning detective novels.

Chaotic step award The initial trophy is a Edogawa chaos , changed to 1992 Sherlock Holmes In the 1985, Higashino Keigo, who was often exposed to fake wenqing, won the Edo River Detective Novel Award for "After School."

Not only do the Eurasian people like detectives, but the American people also love it. Detective Comics (detective)DC Comics In the 27th issue of May 1939, the series "Batman" was launched. "Batman" began as a story of detectives against criminals. Now it has become a story of local tyrants and superheroes fighting the cosmic criminals.

China also likes detective stories, and the Chinese detectives we know are not small. Di Renjie is Dali Temple (leader of the Central Law Department), Song Ci is a prison officer (local bureau-level cadre), Bao Zheng, Long Tu Ge Straight Bachelor (Central Development and Reform Commission). And it seems that the arrest is almost the same as that of the police detective. It is not the police or the detective but the hero of the chivalrous novel. The ordinary servant, the capture is quickly recruited by local folks, and assists the trick. Daily territorial affairs (such as: sending express delivery, arresting criminals), not belonging to public office. The centrally recruited civil servants are led by six doors. (Six doors are the collective name of the three judicial departments: the criminal department - handling bureaucratic cases , Dali Temple - Court, Duchayuan - Supreme Procuratorate.) In fact, the nature of the six doors is more similar to the CIA of the feudal era, is the secret agency of the central intervention.

all in all: The rise of urban cities has separated military and police, and the police system has prompted the maturity of private detectives. Based on reality, novelists have finally found the detective novels of the century that everyone loves to watch.

Punk to steampunk

After World War II, the brutal wars drastically reduced the European population, and the spirit of survivors became more and more deserted. In the 1970s, with the arrival of the unemployment tide, the pressure of society could not be solved. The memories of the good old days of Victoria, let the anger The British people took to the streets to start the punk movement. The punk movement swept across Europe and the United States. There is such a sentence: The more punk the more demented, the more punk the better, the more punk the more against the society, the more punk the more disappeared. Punk is Contrary to the mainstream: Mainstream classic paintings like detailed lines of uniform lines, then I want a colorful black; Classical music likes symphony, high-pitched chorus, I am going to death rock, breaking sound in the end, classical I like it....... It seems that I will hit some domestic variety shows in the end. Everyone knows that punk is a kind of reverse happiness.

All in all, this anti-cultural trend is only to let everyone vent their dissatisfaction with the mainstream society, failing to form any major social changes, and finally leaving a variety of art derived from punk. There is a new art theme of explosives: Steampunk Steampunk is a hypothetical worldview, a high-tech world made up of steam-powered, gear-driven, belt-mechanical transmissions. But social composition, the aesthetic of clothing returns to the constitutional Victorian era or the development of the western United States. The novel is the steampunk theme. The place, but I am not involved, the recognized Yuanzu-level novel is the 1991 "Differential Machine". Other well-known novels of the ocean "Morrow Night", Philip Pullman's famous "Dark Element" trilogy.

There are many games with steampunk elements. The famous games are: BioShock: Unlimited, Shame, Assassin's Creed: Yuxiong, The Order: 1886, World of Warcraft Goblin, Gnome Race. There are also a lot of movies with steampunk elements, "You Steam Boy" by Hayao, Hayao Miyazaki's "Hal's Moving Castle", Chris Weitz's "Golden Compass", Gilmore del Toro, "The Baron of Hell" 》, Zach Schneider’s “Special Flat Attenuation”.

It’s been a long time since the Victorian era, and it’s back in the form of retro and science fiction. I have to sigh: Technology is not cold, it is integrated into people's lives, people will naturally be remembered.

The end: The precipitation of the years can see how technology has subverted the entire era.

Steam power technology promotes the first industrial revolution, technology not only brings about a very distinctive era of change: Victorian era. The products of the Victorian era are still relished after a hundred years, when technology brought changes to people. We are only clear now. Historical things are handed over to history to say , Don't be fooled by the 'black technology' 'great progress' 'XX year', the impact of technology has to be proven by history This issue will be over here. In the next issue, we will introduce you to the culture of the internal combustion engine era according to the figure. Finally, two sentences: To recognize that culture is environmentally separated, people in different cultural contexts see Things are different, after all, the accent of every hilly dialect has changed. Don't look at the world with resistance and stereotypes.