Podcast appearances and mentions of Chen Qiufan

This week on Sinica, I speak with Yi-Ling Liu, journalist, former China editor at Rest of World, and author of the new book The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet. Yi-Ling's book traces the arc of Chinese online life through five protagonists — a rapper, a gay rights entrepreneur, a feminist activist, a science fiction writer, and an internet censor — each navigating the creative and constrictive forces of the Chinese internet in their own way. The result is a deeply reported, novelistic account of what it felt like to live, create, and push back in one of the most surveilled and dynamic digital environments on earth. We discuss the book's central metaphor of "dancing in shackles," the early utopian glow of Chinese netizen culture, the parallel fates of hip hop and science fiction under the state's alternating embrace and constraint, and the eerie convergence between the Chinese internet and our own.0:06 — "Wall dancers" as a metaphor: what it captures that "dissident" or "netizen" doesn't0:09 — Why 网民 (wǎngmín) took root in China as a concept of digital citizenship0:13 — The early Chinese internet: more open than we remember, but not as free as the myth suggests0:15 — Ma Baoli: closeted cop to CEO of China's largest gay dating app, and the Gay Talese reporting strategy0:20 — Lan Yu, Beijing Story, and the film that became a coming-out moment for a generation of queer men0:22 — Pragmatism at the heart of the dance: how individuals and the state negotiated the internet together0:28 — Lu Pin and Feminist Voices: from "playing boundary ball" to sudden exile0:35 — Stanley Chen Qiufan and the state's attempt to co-opt science fiction for nationalist ends0:43 — The generational split in Chinese sci-fi: Liu Cixin's cosmic scale vs. the near-future unease of Chen Qiufan and Hao Jingfang0:46 — Hip hop's arc: from underground scenes in Chengdu and Beijing to The Rap of China and sudden constraint0:51 — Eric Liu, the Weibo censor: humanizing the firewall from the inside0:55 — Common prosperity, Wang Huning, and the moral panic behind the crackdown on "effeminate" culture0:59 — Techno-utopianism in retrospect: was the emancipatory internet always a fantasy?1:03 — The convergence of the Chinese and American internets: Weibo and Twitter, TikTok and Oracle1:07 — What it means to be free: how the book expanded Yi-Ling's sense of what freedoms people actually wantPaying it forward: Zeyi Yang, technology reporter at WIRED, and co-author (with Louise Matsakis) of the excellent tech x China newsletter Made in ChinaRecommendations:Yi-Ling: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai; Machine Decision is Not Final, an anthology of essays on Chinese AI compiled by scholars affiliated with NYU Shanghai.Kaiser: The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History by Odd Arne Westad (forthcoming); Essays from Pallavi Aiyar's Substack The Global Jigsaw, particularly "How Has China Succeeded in Making People Mind their Manners" and "Why I Would Rather Be Born Chinese than Indian Today."See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Writer and editor Yi-Ling Liu joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about state-controlled censorship. Liu, the author of a new book, The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet, explores what it means to build community through the internet while contending with surveillance and suppression. Liu, Terrell, and McCauley discuss the sale of TikTok to U.S. companies, the growing online surveillance and censorship in the United States, and how American citizens can learn from Chinese “netizens” about how to survive under censorship. Liu tells the stories of four people– a renowned feminist, a gay dating app entrepreneur, an aspiring rapper, and a famous science fiction writer—who all found ways to dance around The Great Firewall and earn success for themselves and for their communities online. Liu details the widespread impact of each of these “wall dancers” and reflects on the inspirations that led them to foster social change through online media. Liu explores the importance of cultural exchange and connection online and considers her own personal experience with living and creating under censorship. Liu reads from The Wall Dancers.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/This podcast is produced by Jennifer Maritza McCauley, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell.Yi-Ling LiuThe Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese InternetOthers “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” Ralph EllisonJourney to the Center of the Earth by Jules VerneWaste Tide by Chen Qiufan, trans. by Ken Liu The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, trans. by Ken LiuSale of TikTok to U.S. Companies | PoliticoTikTok Censorship Investigation | Los Angeles TimesSale of NVIDIA Chips to China | Associated PressThe Great FirewallLü Pin on Feminist VoicesThe Feminist FiveThe Mitu Movement in ChinaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How can you write science-based fiction without info-dumping your research? How can you use AI tools in a creative way, while still focusing on a human-first approach? Why is adapting to the fast pace of change so difficult and how can we make the most of this time? Jamie Metzl talks about Superconvergence and more. In the intro, How to avoid author scams [Written Word Media]; Spotify vs Audible audiobook strategy [The New Publishing Standard]; Thoughts on Author Nation and why constraints are important in your author life [Self-Publishing with ALLi]; Alchemical History And Beautiful Architecture: Prague with Lisa M Lilly on my Books and Travel Podcast. Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com to get started. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Jamie Metzl is a technology futurist, professional speaker, entrepreneur, and the author of sci-fi thrillers and futurist nonfiction books, including the revised and updated edition of Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes How personal history shaped Jamie's fiction writing Writing science-based fiction without info-dumping The super convergence of three revolutions (genetics, biotech, AI) and why we need to understand them holistically Using fiction to explore the human side of genetic engineering, life extension, and robotics Collaborating with GPT-5 as a named co-author How to be a first-rate human rather than a second-rate machine You can find Jamie at JamieMetzl.com. Transcript of interview with Jamie Metzl Jo: Jamie Metzl is a technology futurist, professional speaker, entrepreneur, and the author of sci-fi thrillers and futurist nonfiction books, including the revised and updated edition of Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World. So welcome, Jamie. Jamie: Thank you so much, Jo. Very happy to be here with you. Jo: There is so much we could talk about, but let's start with you telling us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. From History PhD to First Novel Jamie: Well, I think like a lot of writers, I didn't know I was a writer. I was just a kid who loved writing. Actually, just last week I was going through a bunch of boxes from my parents' house and I found my autobiography, which I wrote when I was nine years old. So I've been writing my whole life and loving it. It was always something that was very important to me. When I finished my DPhil, my PhD at Oxford, and my dissertation came out, it just got scooped up by Macmillan in like two minutes. And I thought, “God, that was easy.” That got me started thinking about writing books. I wanted to write a novel based on the same historical period – my PhD was in Southeast Asian history – and I wanted to write a historical novel set in the same period as my dissertation, because I felt like the dissertation had missed the human element of the story I was telling, which was related to the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath. So I wrote what became my first novel, and I thought, “Wow, now I'm a writer.” I thought, “All right, I've already published one book. I'm gonna get this other book out into the world.” And then I ran into the brick wall of: it's really hard to be a writer. It's almost easier to write something than to get it published. I had to learn a ton, and it took nine years from when I started writing that first novel, The Depths of the Sea, to when it finally came out. But it was such a positive experience, especially to have something so personal to me as that story. I'd lived in Cambodia for two years, I'd worked on the Thai-Cambodian border, and I'm the child of a Holocaust survivor. So there was a whole lot that was very emotional for me. That set a pattern for the rest of my life as a writer, at least where, in my nonfiction books, I'm thinking about whatever the issues are that are most important to me. Whether it was that historical book, which was my first book, or Hacking Darwin on the future of human genetic engineering, which was my last book, or Superconvergence, which, as you mentioned in the intro, is my current book. But in every one of those stories, the human element is so deep and so profound. You can get at some of that in nonfiction, but I've also loved exploring those issues in deeper ways in my fiction. So in my more recent novels, Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata, I've looked at the human side of the story of genetic engineering and human life extension. And now my agent has just submitted my new novel, Virtuoso, about the intersection of AI, robotics, and classical music. With all of this, who knows what's the real difference between fiction and nonfiction? We're all humans trying to figure things out on many different levels. Shifting from History to Future Tech Jo: I knew that you were a polymath, someone who's interested in so many things, but the music angle with robotics and AI is fascinating. I do just want to ask you, because I was also at Oxford – what college were you at? Jamie: I was in St. Antony's. Jo: I was at Mansfield, so we were in that slightly smaller, less famous college group, if people don't know. Jamie: You know, but we're small but proud. Jo: Exactly. That's fantastic. You mentioned that you were on the historical side of things at the beginning and now you've moved into technology and also science, because this book Superconvergence has a lot of science. So how did you go from history and the past into science and the future? Biology and Seeing the Future Coming Jamie: It's a great question. I'll start at the end and then back up. A few years ago I was speaking at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is one of the big scientific labs here in the United States. I was a guest of the director and I was speaking to their 300 top scientists. I said to them, “I'm here to speak with you about the future of biology at the invitation of your director, and I'm really excited. But if you hear something wrong, please raise your hand and let me know, because I'm entirely self-taught. The last biology course I took was in 11th grade of high school in Kansas City.” Of course I wouldn't say that if I didn't have a lot of confidence in my process. But in many ways I'm self-taught in the sciences. As you know, Jo, and as all of your listeners know, the foundation of everything is curiosity and then a disciplined process for learning. Even our greatest super-specialists in the world now – whatever their background – the world is changing so fast that if anyone says, “Oh, I have a PhD in physics/chemistry/biology from 30 years ago,” the exact topic they learned 30 years ago is less significant than their process for continuous learning. More specifically, in the 1990s I was working on the National Security Council for President Clinton, which is the president's foreign policy staff. My then boss and now close friend, Richard Clarke – who became famous as the guy who had tragically predicted 9/11 – used to say that the key to efficacy in Washington and in life is to try to solve problems that other people can't see. For me, almost 30 years ago, I felt to my bones that this intersection of what we now call AI and the nascent genetics revolution and the nascent biotechnology revolution was going to have profound implications for humanity. So I just started obsessively educating myself. When I was ready, I started writing obscure national security articles. Those got a decent amount of attention, so I was invited to testify before the United States Congress. I was speaking out a lot, saying, “Hey, this is a really important story. A lot of people are missing it. Here are the things we should be thinking about for the future.” I wasn't getting the kind of traction that I wanted. I mentioned before that my first book had been this dry Oxford PhD dissertation, and that had led to my first novel. So I thought, why don't I try the same approach again – writing novels to tell this story about the genetics, biotech, and what later became known popularly as the AI revolution? That led to my two near-term sci-fi novels, Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata. On my book tours for those novels, when I explained the underlying science to people in my way, as someone who taught myself, I could see in their eyes that they were recognizing not just that something big was happening, but that they could understand it and feel like they were part of that story. That's what led me to write Hacking Darwin, as I mentioned. That book really unlocked a lot of things. I had essentially predicted the CRISPR babies that were born in China before it happened – down to the specific gene I thought would be targeted, which in fact was the case. After that book was published, Dr. Tedros, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, invited me to join the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing, which I did. It was a really great experience and got me thinking a lot about the upside of this revolution and the downside. The Birth of Superconvergence Jamie: I get a lot of wonderful invitations to speak, and I have two basic rules for speaking: Never use notes. Never ever. Never stand behind a podium. Never ever. Because of that, when I speak, my talks tend to migrate. I'd be speaking with people about the genetics revolution as it applied to humans, and I'd say, “Well, this is just a little piece of a much bigger story.” The bigger story is that after nearly four billion years of life on Earth, our one species has the increasing ability to engineer novel intelligence and re-engineer life. The big question for us, and frankly for the world, is whether we're going to be able to use that almost godlike superpower wisely. As that idea got bigger and bigger, it became this inevitable force. You write so many books, Jo, that I think it's second nature for you. Every time I finish a book, I think, “Wow, that was really hard. I'm never doing that again.” And then the books creep up on you. They call to you. At some point you say, “All right, now I'm going to do it.” So that was my current book, Superconvergence. Like everything, every journey you take a step, and that step inspires another step and another. That's why writing and living creatively is such a wonderfully exciting thing – there's always more to learn and always great opportunities to push ourselves in new ways. Balancing Deep Research with Good Storytelling Jo: Yeah, absolutely. I love that you've followed your curiosity and then done this disciplined process for learning. I completely understand that. But one of the big issues with people like us who love the research – and having read your Superconvergence, I know how deeply you go into this and how deeply you care that it's correct – is that with fiction, one of the big problems with too much research is the danger of brain-dumping. Readers go to fiction for escapism. They want the interesting side of it, but they want a story first. What are your tips for authors who might feel like, “Where's the line between putting in my research so that it's interesting for readers, but not going too far and turning it into a textbook?” How do you find that balance? Jamie: It's such a great question. I live in New York now, but I used to live in Washington when I was working for the U.S. government, and there were a number of people I served with who later wrote novels. Some of those novels felt like policy memos with a few sex scenes – and that's not what to do. To write something that's informed by science or really by anything, everything needs to be subservient to the story and the characters. The question is: what is the essential piece of information that can convey something that's both important to your story and your character development, and is also an accurate representation of the world as you want it to be? I certainly write novels that are set in the future – although some of them were a future that's now already happened because I wrote them a long time ago. You can make stuff up, but as an author you have to decide what your connection to existing science and existing technology and the existing world is going to be. I come at it from two angles. One: I read a huge number of scientific papers and think, “What does this mean for now, and if you extrapolate into the future, where might that go?” Two: I think about how to condense things. We've all read books where you're humming along because people read fiction for story and emotional connection, and then you hit a bit like: “I sat down in front of the president, and the president said, ‘Tell me what I need to know about the nuclear threat.'” And then it's like: insert memo. That's a deal-killer. It's like all things – how do you have a meaningful relationship with another person? It's not by just telling them your story. Even when you're telling them something about you, you need to be imagining yourself sitting in their shoes, hearing you. These are very different disciplines, fiction and nonfiction. But for the speculative nonfiction I write – “here's where things are now, and here's where the world is heading” – there's a lot of imagination that goes into that too. It feels in many ways like we're living in a sci-fi world because the rate of technological change has been accelerating continuously, certainly for the last 12,000 years since the dawn of agriculture. It's a balance. For me, I feel like I'm a better fiction writer because I write nonfiction, and I'm a better nonfiction writer because I write fiction. When I'm writing nonfiction, I don't want it to be boring either – I want people to feel like there's a story and characters and that they can feel themselves inside that story. Jo: Yeah, definitely. I think having some distance helps as well. If you're really deep into your topics, as you are, you have to leave that manuscript a little bit so you can go back with the eyes of the reader as opposed to your eyes as the expert. Then you can get their experience, which is great. Looking Beyond Author-Focused AI Fears Jo: I want to come to your technical knowledge, because AI is a big thing in the author and creative community, like everywhere else. One of the issues is that creators are focusing on just this tiny part of the impact of AI, and there's a much bigger picture. For example, in 2024, Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind and his collaborative partner John Jumper won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with AlphaFold. It feels to me like there's this massive world of what's happening with AI in health, climate, and other areas, and yet we are so focused on a lot of the negative stuff. Maybe you could give us a couple of things about what there is to be excited and optimistic about in terms of AI-powered science? Jamie: Sure. I'm so excited about all of the new opportunities that AI creates. But I also think there's a reason why evolution has preserved this very human feeling of anxiety: because there are real dangers. Anybody who's Pollyanna-ish and says, “Oh, the AI story is inevitably positive,” I'd be distrustful. And anyone who says, “We're absolutely doomed, this is the end of humanity,” I'd also be distrustful. So let me tell you the positives and the negatives, and maybe some thoughts about how we navigate toward the former and away from the latter. AI as the New Electricity Jamie: When people think of AI right now, they're thinking very narrowly about these AI tools and ChatGPT. But we don't think of electricity that way. Nobody says, “I know electricity – electricity is what happens at the power station.” We've internalised the idea that electricity is woven into not just our communication systems or our houses, but into our clothes, our glasses – it's woven into everything and has super-empowered almost everything in our modern lives. That's what AI is. In Superconvergence, the majority of the book is about positive opportunities: In healthcare, moving from generalised healthcare based on population averages to personalised or precision healthcare based on a molecular understanding of each person's individual biology. As we build these massive datasets like the UK Biobank, we can take a next jump toward predictive and preventive healthcare, where we're able to address health issues far earlier in the process, when interventions can be far more benign. I'm really excited about that, not to mention the incredible new kinds of treatments – gene therapies, or pharmaceuticals based on genetics and systems-biology analyses of patients. Then there's agriculture. Over the last hundred years, because of the technologies of the Green Revolution and synthetic fertilisers, we've had an incredible increase in agricultural productivity. That's what's allowed us to quadruple the global population. But if we just continue agriculture as it is, as we get towards ten billion wealthier, more empowered people wanting to eat like we eat, we're going to have to wipe out all the wild spaces on Earth to feed them. These technologies help provide different paths toward increasing agricultural productivity with fewer inputs of land, water, fertiliser, insecticides, and pesticides. That's really positive. I could go on and on about these positives – and I do – but there are very real negatives. I was a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing after the first CRISPR babies were very unethically created in China. I'm extremely aware that these same capabilities have potentially incredible upsides and very real downsides. That's the same as every technology in the past, but this is happening so quickly that it's triggering a lot of anxieties. Governance, Responsibility, and Why Everyone Has a Role Jamie: The question now is: how do we optimise the benefits and minimise the harms? The short, unsexy word for that is governance. Governance is not just what governments do; it's what all of us do. That's why I try to write books, both fiction and nonfiction, to bring people into this story. If people “other” this story – if they say, “There's a technology revolution, it has nothing to do with me, I'm going to keep my head down” – I think that's dangerous. The way we're going to handle this as responsibly as possible is if everybody says, “I have some role. Maybe it's small, maybe it's big. The first step is I need to educate myself. Then I need to have conversations with people around me. I need to express my desires, wishes, and thoughts – with political leaders, organisations I'm part of, businesses.” That has to happen at every level. You're in the UK – you know the anti-slavery movement started with a handful of people in Cambridge and grew into a global movement. I really believe in the power of ideas, but ideas don't spread on their own. These are very human networks, and that's why writing, speaking, communicating – probably for every single person listening to this podcast – is so important. Jo: Mm, yeah. Fiction Like AI 2041 and Thinking Through the Issues Jo: Have you read AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan? Jamie: No. I heard a bunch of their interviews when the book came out, but I haven't read it. Jo: I think that's another good one because it's fiction – a whole load of short stories. It came out a few years ago now, but the issues they cover in the stories, about different people in different countries – I remember one about deepfakes – make you think more about the topics and help you figure out where you stand. I think that's the issue right now: it's so complex, there are so many things. I'm generally positive about AI, but of course I don't want autonomous drone weapons, you know? The Messy Reality of “Bad” Technologies Jamie: Can I ask you about that? Because this is why it's so complicated. Like you, I think nobody wants autonomous killer drones anywhere in the world. But if you right now were the defence minister of Ukraine, and your children are being kidnapped, your country is being destroyed, you're fighting for your survival, you're getting attacked every night – and you're getting attacked by the Russians, who are investing more and more in autonomous killer robots – you kind of have two choices. You can say, “I'm going to surrender,” or, “I'm going to use what technology I have available to defend myself, and hopefully fight to either victory or some kind of stand-off.” That's what our societies did with nuclear weapons. Maybe not every American recognises that Churchill gave Britain's nuclear secrets to America as a way of greasing the wheels of the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War – but that was our programme: we couldn't afford to lose that war, and we couldn't afford to let the Nazis get nuclear weapons before we did. So there's the abstract feeling of, “I'm against all war in the abstract. I'm against autonomous killer robots in the abstract.” But if I were the defence minister of Ukraine, I would say, “What will it take for us to build the weapons we can use to defend ourselves?” That's why all this stuff gets so complicated. And frankly, it's why the relationship between fiction and nonfiction is so important. If every novel had a situation where every character said, “Oh, I know exactly the right answer,” and then they just did the right answer and it was obviously right, it wouldn't make for great fiction. We're dealing with really complex humans. We have conflicting impulses. We're not perfect. Maybe there are no perfect answers – but how do we strive toward better rather than worse? That's the question. Jo: Absolutely. I don't want to get too political on things. How AI Is Changing the Writing Life Jo: Let's come back to authors. In terms of the creative process, the writing process, the research process, and the business of being an author – what are some of the ways that you already use AI tools, and some of the ways, given your futurist brain, that you think things are going to change for us? Jamie: Great question. I'll start with a little middle piece. I found you, Jo, through GPT-5. I asked ChatGPT, “I'm coming out with this book and I want to connect with podcasters who are a little different from the ones I've done in the past. I've been a guest on Joe Rogan twice and some of the bigger podcasts. Make me a list of really interesting people I can have great conversations with.” That's how I found you. So this is one reward of that process. Let me say that in the last year I've worked on three books, and I'll explain how my relationship with AI has changed over those books. Cleaning Up Citations (and Getting Burned) Jamie: First is the highly revised paperback edition of Superconvergence. When the hardback came out, I had – I don't normally work with research assistants because I like to dig into everything myself – but the one thing I do use a research assistant for is that I can't be bothered, when I'm writing something, to do the full Chicago-style footnote if I'm already referencing an academic paper. So I'd just put the URL as the footnote and then hire a research assistant and say, “Go to this URL and change it into a Chicago-style citation. That's it.” Unfortunately, my research assistant on the hardback used early-days ChatGPT for that work. He did the whole thing, came back, everything looked perfect. I said, “Wow, amazing job.” It was only later, as I was going through them, that I realised something like 50% of them were invented footnotes. It was very painful to go back and fix, and it took ten times more time. With the paperback edition, I didn't use AI that much, but I did say things like, “Here's all the information – generate a Chicago-style citation.” That was better. I noticed there were a few things where I stopped using the thesaurus function on Microsoft Word because I'd just put the whole paragraph into the AI and say, “Give me ten other options for this one word,” and it would be like a contextual thesaurus. That was pretty good. Talking to a Robot Pianist Character Jamie: Then, for my new novel Virtuoso, I was writing a character who is a futurist robot that plays the piano very beautifully – not just humanly, but almost finding new things in the music we've written and composing music that resonates with us. I described the actions of that robot in the novel, but I didn't describe the inner workings of the robot's mind. In thinking about that character, I realised I was the first science-fiction writer in history who could interrogate a machine about what it was “thinking” in a particular context. I had the most beautiful conversations with ChatGPT, where I would give scenarios and ask, “What are you thinking? What are you feeling in this context?” It was all background for that character, but it was truly profound. Co-Authoring The AI Ten Commandments with GPT-5 Jamie: Third, I have another book coming out in May in the United States. I gave a talk this summer at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York about AI and spirituality. I talked about the history of our human relationship with our technology, about how all our religious and spiritual traditions have deep technological underpinnings – certainly our Abrahamic religions are deeply connected to farming, and Protestantism to the printing press. Then I had a section about the role of AI in generating moral codes that would resonate with humans. Everybody went nuts for this talk, and I thought, “I think I'm going to write a book.” I decided to write it differently, with GPT-5 as my named co-author. The first thing I did was outline the entire book based on the talk, which I'd already spent a huge amount of time thinking about and organising. Then I did a full outline of the arguments and structures. Then I trained GPT-5 on my writing style. The way I did it – which I fully describe in the introduction to the book – was that I'd handle all the framing: the full introduction, the argument, the structure. But if there was a section where, for a few paragraphs, I was summarising a huge field of data, even something I knew well, I'd give GPT-5 the intro sentence and say, “In my writing style, prepare four paragraphs on this.” For example, I might write: “AI has the potential to see us humans like we humans see ant colonies.” Then I'd say, “Give me four paragraphs on the relationship between the individual and the collective in ant colonies.” I could have written those four paragraphs myself, but it would've taken a month to read the life's work of E.O. Wilson and then write them. GPT-5 wrote them in seconds or minutes, in its thinking mode. I'd then say, “It's not quite right – change this, change that,” and we'd go back and forth three or four times. Then I'd edit the whole thing and put it into the text. So this book that I could have written on my own in a year, I wrote a first draft of with GPT-5 as my named co-author in two days. The whole project will take about six months from start to finish, and I'm having massive human editing – multiple edits from me, plus a professional editor. It's not a magic AI button. But I feel strongly about listing GPT-5 as a co-author because I've written it differently than previous books. I'm a huge believer in the old-fashioned lone author struggling and suffering – that's in my novels, and in Virtuoso I explore that. But other forms are going to emerge, just like video games are a creative, artistic form deeply connected to technology. The novel hasn't been around forever – the current format is only a few centuries old – and forms are always changing. There are real opportunities for authors, and there will be so much crap flooding the market because everybody can write something and put it up on Amazon. But I think there will be a very special place for thoughtful human authors who have an idea of what humans do at our best, and who translate that into content other humans can enjoy. Traditional vs Indie: Why This Book Will Be Self-Published Jo: I'm interested – you mentioned that it's your named co-author. Is this book going through a traditional publisher, and what do they think about that? Or are you going to publish it yourself? Jamie: It's such a smart question. What I found quickly is that when you get to be an author later in your career, you have all the infrastructure – a track record, a fantastic agent, all of that. But there were two things that were really important to me here: I wanted to get this book out really fast – six months instead of a year and a half. It was essential to me to have GPT-5 listed as my co-author, because if it were just my name, I feel like it would be dishonest. Readers who are used to reading my books – I didn't want to present something different than what it was. I spoke with my agent, who I absolutely love, and she said that for this particular project it was going to be really hard in traditional publishing. So I did a huge amount of research, because I'd never done anything in the self-publishing world before. I looked at different models. There was one hybrid model that's basically the same as traditional, but you pay for the things the publisher would normally pay for. I ended up not doing that. Instead, I decided on a self-publishing route where I disaggregated the publishing process. I found three teams: one for producing the book, one for getting the book out into the world, and a smaller one for the audiobook. I still believe in traditional publishing – there's a lot of wonderful human value-add. But some works just don't lend themselves to traditional publishing. For this book, which is called The AI Ten Commandments, that's the path I've chosen. Jo: And when's that out? I think people will be interested. Jamie: April 26th. Those of us used to traditional publishing think, “I've finished the book, sold the proposal, it'll be out any day now,” and then it can be a year and a half. It's frustrating. With this, the process can be much faster because it's possible to control more of the variables. But the key – as I was saying – is to make sure it's as good a book as everything else you've written. It's great to speed up, but you don't want to compromise on quality. The Coming Flood of Excellent AI-Generated Work Jo: Yeah, absolutely. We're almost out of time, but I want to come back to your “flood of crap” and the “AI slop” idea that's going around. Because you are working with GPT-5 – and I do as well, and I work with Claude and Gemini – and right now there are still issues. Like you said about referencing, there are still hallucinations, though fewer. But fast-forward two, five years: it's not a flood of crap. It's a flood of excellent. It's a flood of stuff that's better than us. Jamie: We're humans. It's better than us in certain ways. If you have farm machinery, it's better than us at certain aspects of farming. I'm a true humanist. I think there will be lots of things machines do better than us, but there will be tons of things we do better than them. There's a reason humans still care about chess, even though machines can beat humans at chess. Some people are saying things I fully disagree with, like this concept of AGI – artificial general intelligence – where machines do everything better than humans. I've summarised my position in seven letters: “AGI is BS.” The only way you can believe in AGI in that sense is if your concept of what a human is and what a human mind is is so narrow that you think it's just a narrow range of analytical skills. We are so much more than that. Humans represent almost four billion years of embodied evolution. There's so much about ourselves that we don't know. As incredible as these machines are and will become, there will always be wonderful things humans can do that are different from machines. What I always tell people is: whatever you're doing, don't be a second-rate machine. Be a first-rate human. If you're doing something and a machine is doing that thing much better than you, then shift to something where your unique capacities as a human give you the opportunity to do something better. So yes, I totally agree that the quality of AI-generated stuff will get better. But I think the most creative and successful humans will be the ones who say, “I recognise that this is creating new opportunities, and I'm going to insert my core humanity to do something magical and new.” People are “othering” these technologies, but the technologies themselves are magnificent human-generated artefacts. They're not alien UFOs that landed here. It's a scary moment for creatives, no doubt, because there are things all of us did in the past that machines can now do really well. But this is the moment where the most creative people ask themselves, “What does it mean for me to be a great human?” The pat answers won't apply. In my Virtuoso novel I explore that a lot. The idea that “machines don't do creativity” – they will do incredible creativity; it just won't be exactly human creativity. We will be potentially huge beneficiaries of these capabilities, but we really have to believe in and invest in the magic of our core humanity. Where to Find Jamie and His Books Jo: Brilliant. So where can people find you and your books online? Jamie: Thank you so much for asking. My website is jamiemetzl.com – and my books are available everywhere. Jo: Fantastic. Thanks so much for your time, Jamie. That was great. Jamie: Thank you, Joanna.The post Writing The Future, And Being More Human In An Age of AI With Jamie Metzl first appeared on The Creative Penn.

Nghe trọn sách nói AI 2041: 10 Viễn Cảnh Cho Tương Lai trên ứng dụng Fonos: https://fonos.link/podcast-tvsn --Về Fonos:Fonos là Ứng dụng âm thanh số - Với hơn 13.000 nội dung gồm Sách nói có bản quyền, PodCourse, Podcast, Ebook, Tóm tắt sách, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Truyện thiếu nhi. Bạn có thể nghe miễn phí chương 1 của tất cả sách nói trên Fonos. Tải app để trải nghiệm ngay!--Từ rất lâu trước khi ChatGPT ra đời, Kai-Fu Lee và Chen Qiufan đã hiểu được tiềm năng to lớn của trí tuệ nhân tạo trong việc biến đổi cuộc sống hằng ngày của chúng ta. Nhưng ngay cả khi thế giới thức tỉnh với sức mạnh của AI, nhiều người trong chúng ta vẫn không nắm bắt được bức tranh toàn cảnh. Chatbot và các mô hình ngôn ngữ lớn chỉ là khởi đầu. Trong "sự hợp tác đầy cảm hứng" này, Kai-Fu Lee và Chen Qiufan đã hợp tác để tưởng tượng ra thế giới của chúng ta vào năm 2041 và cách AI sẽ định hình thế giới đó. 10 viễn cảnh tương lai của năm 2041 là 10 câu chuyện thú vị qua thủ pháp viễn tưởng khoa học của nhà văn Chen QiuFan, ngay sau đó là những phân tích lý giải chuyên sâu về mặt công nghệ của Kai-Fu-Lee. Các câu chuyện được sắp xếp theo mọi khía cạnh của AI theo thứ tự từ công nghệ cơ bản đến nâng cao.Các câu chuyện trong cuốn sách sẽ mang đến cho ta hình dung hoàn toàn có căn cứ về một thế giới của 20 năm sau, nơi mà rất có thể AI sẽ hiện diện tràn ngập xung quanh chúng ta. Tuy nhiên, đây không chỉ là một lời cảnh báo về các rủi ro đe dọa sự tồn vong của nhân loại, đây còn là sự chuẩn bị cho một tương lai nhiều thách thức, nhiều cơ hội và cũng đầy hứa hẹn, tất cả phụ thuộc vào mỗi hành động, mỗi quyết định của chúng ta ngay từ hôm nay.--Tìm hiểu thêm về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/

Le narrazioni che ci raccontano un futuro oscuro, angoscioso, negativo ci aiutano a capire (e magari reagire) o ci lasciano solo più disperati? Sarebbe una domanda oziosa se non fossimo entrati, grazie a Trump, in una specie di incipiente distopia. Allora, per esempio, un racconto cinese in cui la Rete futura appare un grande Tribunale di Mandanti, Cacciatori e Giustizieri non sembra immaginare un futuro così lontano. E i suoi esiti ci mettono in guardia nel nostro presente. Il Tao delle macchine a cura di Chen Qiufan, Luiss University Press Questo e gli altri podcast gratuiti del Post sono possibili grazie a chi si abbona al Post e ne sostiene il lavoro. Se vuoi fare la tua parte, abbonati al Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Futurismo] Resenha do livro "AI 2041: ten visions for our future", de Kai-Fu Lee e Chen Qiufan. O texto escrito está nesse link. Como será nosso mundo em 2041? Como estaremos vivendo em pouco menos de 20 anos? O visionário Kai-Fu Lee, que foi presidente da Google na China e executivo senior da Apple e Microsoft, tem conhecimento e bagagem de sobra para fazer essa previsão. Então ele se juntou com Chen Qiufan para criar 10 pequenos contos de ficção que se passam em 2041 e ilustrar as ideias, projeções e análises em cada área da tecnologia. E quer saber? O resultado ficou show! Vem ouvir! Aqui o link para a resenha do livro anterior dele, AI Superpowers. Aqui o link para você comprar o livro na Amazon do Brasil.

Send us a Text Message.Kitap Kulübü'müzün 41. buluşmasında Kai-Fu Lee ve Chen Qiufan'ın Yapay Zeka 2041 adlı kitabını konuştuk.Kitabın alışılmışın dışında bir yapısı var, yapay zeka sayesinde 2041 yılında gerçekleşebilecek 10 kurgu hikayeden ve her hikayenin ardından da günümüzde yapılan bu alandaki çalışmaların analiz edildiği bölümlerden oluşuyor. Kurgu hikayeleri zamanında Google ve Baidu'da çalışmış olan yazar Chen Qiufan yazmış. Teknik analizleri de bilgisayar mühendisi, teknoloji yatırımcısı ve iş insanı Kai-Fu Lee kaleme almış.Hikayeler sosyal ilişkiler, yapay zeka ile üretilen gerçek görünümlü videolar ve onun yaratacağı sorunlar, kişisel eğitim ve öğrenim, sağlık, oyun ve eğlence, otonom ulaşım, otonom silahlar, kariyer ve işgücü, mutluluk ve yine yapay zekanın yol açacağı düşünülen bolluk ve buna bağlı ekonomik düzen gibi oldukça kapsamlı ve farklı konular hakkında. Kitap ilk olarak 2021 sonunda yayınlanmış, geçen yıl Türkçe'ye kazandırılmış. Yapay zekada gelişmeler aylık hatta haftalık olarak değişim gösterebiliyor, ama kitabın sorduğu sorular bence halen geçerli. Hatta bana şöyle geliyor, gelişen sadece yapay zeka teknolojisi, biz sosyal, hukuki, politik olarak hemen hemen hiçbir telaş içinde gibi görünmüyoruz. Her büyük değişimde olduğu gibi sanırım burada da kayıplar yaşandığı zaman geriden gelip boşlukları doldurma yoluna gideceğiz. Kimse olacakları öngöremiyor, yaşayıp ona göre vaziyet alacağız.Açıkçası ben uzun vadede iyimserim, daha iyi bir planlamayla israfın azalması, doğayı korumada, enerji ve sağlık alanında temel bilimlerin daha iyi anlaşılarak bazı icatların yapılmasının mümkün olduğunu düşünüyorum. Ama kısa vadede özellikle iklim değişiklikleri ile de çakışacak insanı boşa çıkaracak yeniliklerin bir nevi “mükemmel kasırga” oluşturabileceğini ve insanlığın yine büyük bir sınav geçireceğine inanıyorum. İlginç zamanlarda yaşıyoruz, daha ilginç zamanlar önümüzde.Bu bölümde sözlerine yer verebildiğim arkadaşlarım(02:30) Yavuz Abut, (06:04) Müge İrfanoğlu, (09:18) Mustafa Pancarcı, (11:27) Müge İrfanoğlu, (12:26) Ömer Tural, (16:10) Olcay Çat, (18:55) Mete Yurtsever, (19:46) Suat Soy, (23:33) Yavuz Abut, (28:35) Halime Özben Hacı, (30:40) Mete Yurtsever, (31:43) Müge İrfanoğlu, (32:18) Suat Soy, (33:20) Mete Yurtsever ve (34:43) Özden KarakaşSupport the Show.

The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, US Air Force Captain Jose Davis discusses his paper, which is entitled: "Leveraging AI for Operations in the Information Environment: 3 Demonstrations in Disinformation, Social Media, and Entropy." The paper focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the realm of Operations in the Information Environment (OIE), particularly for the Air Force. The paper presents three case studies demonstrating how AI can positively impact OIE and advocates for direct AI research in this area. Additionally, he'll recap an information campaign that US Air Forces in Europe conducted to assure Baltic NATO Allies, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Recording Date: 24 April 2024 Research Questions: Jose Davis suggests as interested student examine:  What other common metrics can be developed or researched for assessing the Information Environment, tailor-made for the national security needs and useful for IO and PA operators? What are the practical outcomes in the Information Environment (a complex system) when entropy is influenced, pushed either higher or lower? e.g. Hypothetically, when high entropy is present, humans deploy simplifying heuristics, so this should help improve Key Leader Engagements' (KLE) timing and improve KLE dossiers. Or with PA/IO, high entropy hypothetically may demand a simplified messaging campaign. In what other ways can AI be leveraged to combat nefarious AI use for disinformation? The ideas of watermarking or safeguarding content from manipulation from nefarious Generative AI are a form of  immunization, advancing Inoculation Theory as a whole. What other preventative measures along the lines of immunization can be taken to combat disinformation? Resources: Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned #46 Pat Ryder on Public Affairs and Strategic Communications #174 Kara Masick on Assessment Insights from Program Evaluation #183 Julie Janson on Air Force IO Talent and Strategy Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Universal adversarial perturbations by Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli, Alhussein Fawzi, Omar Fawzi, and Pascal Frossard Pre-trained Adversarial Perturbations by Yuanhao Ban, Yinpeng Dong Automating OIE with Large Language Models by Cpt Alexander Sferrella, Cpt Joseph Conger, and Maj Kara Masick Claude Shannon AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by former Google technologist Kai-Fu Lee and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan. I'm a huge advocate of using story to educate. For those new to AI or wanting to understand AI's societal impact, this is my go-to book. Written in a series of fictional short stories with in-depth essay analysis at the end of each, the book teaches AI while making it entertaining. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman. I think every Information Warfare professional should know who Claude Shannon is and read his “magna carta” of the Information Age, The  Mathematical Theory of Communication.  My intellectual hero, this exceptional biography brings the man to life — a polymath, a tinkerer, an innovator. “Attention is all You Need” by Ashish Vaswani et al. This is the seminal paper advancing the Transformer architecture which made Generative AI like ChatGPT possible. Liken this paper to Einstein's book on Relativity or Newton's Principia. Information Theory: Structural Models for Qualitative Data by Klaus Krippendorff Link to full show notes and resources Guest Bio:  Jose is a Public Affairs Officer for Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. He has over 14 years of experience in integrated communications, both in the public and private sectors. He is accredited in Public Relations and Military Communications through the Public Relations Society of America. In his current role, he ensures the strategic communication of accurate and timely information about the command's 104-country area of operations. He played a pivotal role at NATO in combating misinformation before, during and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. He just finished a rigorous six-month fellowship at a DoD-sponsored AI Accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gaining exposure to some of the brightest and best minds in AI and Machine Learning technologies. As part of his fellowship, Jose was required to apply his newly acquired AI foundational knowledge to produce a research paper addressing a problem or issue facing the U.S. Air Force. The paper is slated for publication in the U.S. Air Force's Air and Space Operations Review journal. About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

Brendan McCord is the founder of Cosmos Institute — a non-profit dedicated to exploring the intersection of AI and philosophy. Brendan joins the show to discuss Cosmos' origins, the pursuit of philosophy as a technologist, the different schools of thought in AI, complex adaptive systems and MUCH more! Important Links: Brendan McCord's Reading List Cosmos Institute Substack Brendan's Twitter Show Notes: The Genesis of the Cosmos Institute Philosophy as a Quixotic Pursuit The Man of the System Dilemma Existential Risk & Scenario Agnosticism The AI Schools of Thought The Religious Nature of the E/Acc Movement What Tocqueville Can Teach Us About AI The Philosophy-to-Code Pipeline “Cars ignited the Sexual Revolution” and Other Unexpected Occurrences The Best Systems are Adaptive Heterogeneity & Resilient Systems Open Source and the US-China Situation Automation, Augmentation & Open-Ended Generation The Underrated Nuance of Russian Realism Cinematic Visions of the Future Great Talent & the Risk of the Tasmanian Devil Brendan as Emperor of the World MORE! Books Mentioned: Murray Rothbard, “For A New Liberty” David R. Hawkins, “Power vs. Force” Jung Chang, “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China” Jung Chang, “Mao: The Unknown Story” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago” Arthur Koestler, “Darkness At Noon” Adam Smith, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” Lewis Carroll, “What the Tortoise Said To Achilles” Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality” Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” Alexis De Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” 'Pericles's Funeral Oration' quoted in Thucydides' “History of the Peloponnesian War”. Plato, “Theaetetus” Plato, “The Republic” Nietzsche, “The Gay Science” C.P Snow, “The Two Cultures” Elinor Ostrom, “Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action” James M. Buchanan, "Freedom in Constitutional Contract: Perspectives of a Political Economist” Iain M. Banks, “Consider Phlebas” (Culture Series #1) Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee, “AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future” Christopher Buckley, “Thank You for Smoking” John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”

Two years living at sea taught New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerney values which she wants to apply to the development of AI. Her Essay explores the "sustainable AI" movement and looks at visions of the future in novels including Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl. Dr McInerney is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put academic research on radio.Producer: Julian SiddleYou can hear more from Kerry in Free Thinking and New Thinking episodes available as Arts & Ideas podcasts called AI, feminism, human/machines and Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes

Two years living at sea taught New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerney values which she wants to apply to the development of AI. Her Essay explores the "sustainable AI" movement and looks at visions of the future in novels including Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl. Dr McInerney is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put academic research on radio.Producer: Julian SiddleYou can hear more from Kerry in Free Thinking and New Thinking episodes available as Arts & Ideas podcasts called AI, feminism, human/machines and Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes.

Two years living at sea taught New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerney values which she wants to apply to the development of AI. Her Essay explores the "sustainable AI" movement and looks at visions of the future in novels including Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl. Dr McInerney is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put academic research on radio. Producer: Julian Siddle You can hear more from Kerry in Free Thinking and New Thinking episodes available as Arts & Ideas podcasts called AI, feminism, human/machines and Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes

Join me on "AI Experience" as we delve into the book "AI 2041" by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan. This episode offers a captivating glimpse into a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Discover how AI could revolutionize our lives in the next two decades, from transforming medicine and education to challenging our economic and social norms. Get ready for an insightful journey into a world where the boundaries between human and machine blur, promising both unparalleled advancements and profound ethical questions. Don't miss this exploration of a future that's closer than it seems!Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The surge in the popularity and utility of artificial intelligence (AI) presents several opportunities for the philanthropic sector - both in leveraging the technology to improve ways of working, as well as playing a key role in supporting the safe development of AI.Chris Malone, Partner at Dalberg, speaks about how philanthropy can use AI by sharing eight areas where philanthropists might use AI to transform their work, and conversely, how AI can use philanthropy by encouraging funding to go into AI research.Key Moments:2:00 - Setting the bookends: risks and opportunities in AI12:30 - 8 Areas where philanthropy might engage with AI20:00 - Working with grantee organizations - how could grantee organizations benefit from AI?24:40 - Philanthropies as centers of excellence26:50 - How AI could use philanthropy?34:40 - Existential risk in AI and why we need all kinds of philanthropists funding research into all kinds of risks and possibilities in AI39:10 - How corporates could think about corporate social impact as a sandbox for innovation, such as in AI. 43:45 - Recommended reading from Chris: AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee an Chen Qiufan

China's book market is the second largest in the world, with people reading around 6 billion books a year. But how easy is it for small publishers, bookstores, and writers to get a piece of this pie? And how are digital alternatives to physical books impacting writers and small businesses and writers? Featuring- Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆): Writer & Futurist- Liu Jue: TWOC – Managing editor- Su Wan (苏皖): Maziren Bookstore (码字人书店) - OwnerTo go further- "The Dark Room Problem" short story written by Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆) and published by The World of Chinese Magazine- How China's Small-Town Bookstores Innovate to Survive, article by by The World of Chinese Magazine- Bookish Dreams: The fantasy of owning an independent bookstore lingers for China's idealists, article by by The World of Chinese Magazine- Middle Earth episode #25 How to publish a book in China- Middle Earth episode #91 How to Publish a Magazine for 100 IssuesMiddle Earth is made by China Compass Productions and hosted by Aladin Farré. If you have a China-themed cultural project like shooting your next documentary or look for a specific talent, please get in touch! With thanks to Sean Calvo for music support.  The World of Chinese Magazine A magazine about Chinese society, culture, history, arts, language, and more.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Trembling hands seem to check for the forgotten secret language. Withered bodies, like finding some long-forgotten receipt. Where have you been all these years? The mountains echo again, spring's call is finally answered: I am the secret language you forgot. You are my lost credentials.In the ninety fifth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are embarking on My Travels in Ding Yi (我的丁一之旅 - wǒ de dīng yī zhīlǚ). This is one of the later works in the life of Shi Tiesheng, an idiosyncratic writer best remembered as being a ‘disabled writer' but better remembered as something far more multifaceted. Peer in from another mind, another world, as academic Chloë Starr and I confer with Christ and become embodied with Budda. Perhaps, somehow, we'll puzzle out our brief roles on the stage play of existence.-// NEWS ITEMS //New short Chen Qiufan interview on AIChi Ta-wei's The Membranes optioned for film adaptation(!)Intriguing academic book: Strange Tales from Edo by William D. Fleming-// WORD OF THE DAY //(心识不死 – xīn shì bùsǐ – the spirit never dies)-// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //Chloë's paper: Shi Tiesheng and the Nature of the HumanThe Cultural Christian movement in ChinaWhat We Owe the Future by Willam McAskillLife on a String (1991, Chen Kaige) - an adaptation of Shi Tiesheng's 命若琴弦-// Handy TrChFic Links //Help Support TrChFic // Episode TranscriptsINSTAGRAM ⛪ TWITTER ⛪ DISCORD

Hello everyone. This is Ti-han 張迪涵_, one of the hosts of our Taiwan On-Air podcast series, sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies and today we are here for a Book Chat. Our guest today is a rising-star French scholar who specialised in Taiwanese and Chinese literary studies and translation,  Professor Gwennaël Gaffric from Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin. Both Gwennael and I studied at the University of Lyon 3 as doctoral students back in early 2010s. First time we met was because I required some help from a native French speaker to help me revise my poorly written doctoral proposal and application in French at the time. Although Gwenn had never met me before, he was very kind to lend me a hand to review my application together. And since then, he had always been a great help and a true friend, and of course a wonderful colleague to work with throughout these years. Many of our Francophone colleagues who work on Taiwan studies also know Gwenn through his great works of fiction translation. As a doctoral student, he started with translating Wu Ming-yi's 睡眠的航線 [Routes in a Dream], and subsequently translated also Wu's 複眼人[The Man with the Compound Eyes] and 天穚上的魔術師 [The Magician on the Skywalk], as well as other Taiwanese novelists and poets such as Chi Ta-wei, Kao Yi-feng, Xia Yu and Walis Nokan. In recent years, his translation also goes beyond Taiwan, further including other Chinese best-selling eco sci-fi such as the Three-Body Problem from Liu Cixin and The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan. Gaffric's research today crosses between science fiction, ecocriticism,, and Sinohpone literary translation. And of course, he also plays a key role in the promotion of Taiwan literature and culture to the French-speaking world, as he is not only in charge as the director of Taiwan Fiction Collection Series in the Asiathèque, but he also collaborates with Ministry of Culture文化部 and Centre Culturel de Taïwan à Paris 巴文中心 to bring authors and poets to the Francophone readers. Today, however, we are not here to quiz Gwenn about his literary translation, but more about his scholarly research and his monograph, The Literature in the Age of Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-yi [La Littérature à l'ère de l'anthropocene: Une étude écocritique autour des oeuvres de l'écrivain taïwanaise Wu Ming-yi] which is recently translated into Chinese by his wife, Hsu Ya-wen, and published in Taiwan by Xinjindian Publishing. This is a book that based on Gwennaël's doctoral thesis and with adapted revisions. In the book, readers are able to go more in depth on Gaffric's own critical interpretation and analysis of Wu Ming-yi's works across different periods as well as his theoretical understanding and worldview contextualised in the era of Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Hello everyone. This is Ti-han 張迪涵_, one of the hosts of our Taiwan On-Air podcast series, sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies and today we are here for a Book Chat. Our guest today is a rising-star French scholar who specialised in Taiwanese and Chinese literary studies and translation,  Professor Gwennaël Gaffric from Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin. Both Gwennael and I studied at the University of Lyon 3 as doctoral students back in early 2010s. First time we met was because I required some help from a native French speaker to help me revise my poorly written doctoral proposal and application in French at the time. Although Gwenn had never met me before, he was very kind to lend me a hand to review my application together. And since then, he had always been a great help and a true friend, and of course a wonderful colleague to work with throughout these years. Many of our Francophone colleagues who work on Taiwan studies also know Gwenn through his great works of fiction translation. As a doctoral student, he started with translating Wu Ming-yi's 睡眠的航線 [Routes in a Dream], and subsequently translated also Wu's 複眼人[The Man with the Compound Eyes] and 天穚上的魔術師 [The Magician on the Skywalk], as well as other Taiwanese novelists and poets such as Chi Ta-wei, Kao Yi-feng, Xia Yu and Walis Nokan. In recent years, his translation also goes beyond Taiwan, further including other Chinese best-selling eco sci-fi such as the Three-Body Problem from Liu Cixin and The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan. Gaffric's research today crosses between science fiction, ecocriticism,, and Sinohpone literary translation. And of course, he also plays a key role in the promotion of Taiwan literature and culture to the French-speaking world, as he is not only in charge as the director of Taiwan Fiction Collection Series in the Asiathèque, but he also collaborates with Ministry of Culture文化部 and Centre Culturel de Taïwan à Paris 巴文中心 to bring authors and poets to the Francophone readers. Today, however, we are not here to quiz Gwenn about his literary translation, but more about his scholarly research and his monograph, The Literature in the Age of Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-yi [La Littérature à l'ère de l'anthropocene: Une étude écocritique autour des oeuvres de l'écrivain taïwanaise Wu Ming-yi] which is recently translated into Chinese by his wife, Hsu Ya-wen, and published in Taiwan by Xinjindian Publishing. This is a book that based on Gwennaël's doctoral thesis and with adapted revisions. In the book, readers are able to go more in depth on Gaffric's own critical interpretation and analysis of Wu Ming-yi's works across different periods as well as his theoretical understanding and worldview contextualised in the era of Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Hello everyone. This is Ti-han 張迪涵_, one of the hosts of our Taiwan On-Air podcast series, sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies and today we are here for a Book Chat. Our guest today is a rising-star French scholar who specialised in Taiwanese and Chinese literary studies and translation,  Professor Gwennaël Gaffric from Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin. Both Gwennael and I studied at the University of Lyon 3 as doctoral students back in early 2010s. First time we met was because I required some help from a native French speaker to help me revise my poorly written doctoral proposal and application in French at the time. Although Gwenn had never met me before, he was very kind to lend me a hand to review my application together. And since then, he had always been a great help and a true friend, and of course a wonderful colleague to work with throughout these years. Many of our Francophone colleagues who work on Taiwan studies also know Gwenn through his great works of fiction translation. As a doctoral student, he started with translating Wu Ming-yi's 睡眠的航線 [Routes in a Dream], and subsequently translated also Wu's 複眼人[The Man with the Compound Eyes] and 天穚上的魔術師 [The Magician on the Skywalk], as well as other Taiwanese novelists and poets such as Chi Ta-wei, Kao Yi-feng, Xia Yu and Walis Nokan. In recent years, his translation also goes beyond Taiwan, further including other Chinese best-selling eco sci-fi such as the Three-Body Problem from Liu Cixin and The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan. Gaffric's research today crosses between science fiction, ecocriticism,, and Sinohpone literary translation. And of course, he also plays a key role in the promotion of Taiwan literature and culture to the French-speaking world, as he is not only in charge as the director of Taiwan Fiction Collection Series in the Asiathèque, but he also collaborates with Ministry of Culture文化部 and Centre Culturel de Taïwan à Paris 巴文中心 to bring authors and poets to the Francophone readers. Today, however, we are not here to quiz Gwenn about his literary translation, but more about his scholarly research and his monograph, The Literature in the Age of Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-yi [La Littérature à l'ère de l'anthropocene: Une étude écocritique autour des oeuvres de l'écrivain taïwanaise Wu Ming-yi] which is recently translated into Chinese by his wife, Hsu Ya-wen, and published in Taiwan by Xinjindian Publishing. This is a book that based on Gwennaël's doctoral thesis and with adapted revisions. In the book, readers are able to go more in depth on Gaffric's own critical interpretation and analysis of Wu Ming-yi's works across different periods as well as his theoretical understanding and worldview contextualised in the era of Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Hello everyone. This is Ti-han 張迪涵_, one of the hosts of our Taiwan On-Air podcast series, sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies and today we are here for a Book Chat. Our guest today is a rising-star French scholar who specialised in Taiwanese and Chinese literary studies and translation,  Professor Gwennaël Gaffric from Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin. Both Gwennael and I studied at the University of Lyon 3 as doctoral students back in early 2010s. First time we met was because I required some help from a native French speaker to help me revise my poorly written doctoral proposal and application in French at the time. Although Gwenn had never met me before, he was very kind to lend me a hand to review my application together. And since then, he had always been a great help and a true friend, and of course a wonderful colleague to work with throughout these years. Many of our Francophone colleagues who work on Taiwan studies also know Gwenn through his great works of fiction translation. As a doctoral student, he started with translating Wu Ming-yi's 睡眠的航線 [Routes in a Dream], and subsequently translated also Wu's 複眼人[The Man with the Compound Eyes] and 天穚上的魔術師 [The Magician on the Skywalk], as well as other Taiwanese novelists and poets such as Chi Ta-wei, Kao Yi-feng, Xia Yu and Walis Nokan. In recent years, his translation also goes beyond Taiwan, further including other Chinese best-selling eco sci-fi such as the Three-Body Problem from Liu Cixin and The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan. Gaffric's research today crosses between science fiction, ecocriticism,, and Sinohpone literary translation. And of course, he also plays a key role in the promotion of Taiwan literature and culture to the French-speaking world, as he is not only in charge as the director of Taiwan Fiction Collection Series in the Asiathèque, but he also collaborates with Ministry of Culture文化部 and Centre Culturel de Taïwan à Paris 巴文中心 to bring authors and poets to the Francophone readers. Today, however, we are not here to quiz Gwenn about his literary translation, but more about his scholarly research and his monograph, The Literature in the Age of Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-yi [La Littérature à l'ère de l'anthropocene: Une étude écocritique autour des oeuvres de l'écrivain taïwanaise Wu Ming-yi] which is recently translated into Chinese by his wife, Hsu Ya-wen, and published in Taiwan by Xinjindian Publishing. This is a book that based on Gwennaël's doctoral thesis and with adapted revisions. In the book, readers are able to go more in depth on Gaffric's own critical interpretation and analysis of Wu Ming-yi's works across different periods as well as his theoretical understanding and worldview contextualised in the era of Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Recomendaciones del episodio: Excellent Advice for Living. Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. Por Kevin Kelly. https://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Advice-Living-Wisdom-Earlier/dp/0593654528 AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future Por Kai-Fu Lee y Chen Qiufan. https://www.amazon.com.mx/AI-2041-Ten-Visions-Future/dp/059323829X Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence Por Anna Lembke. https://www.amazon.com.mx/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X No podemos predecir el futuro, pero sí podemos explorarlo. /// Jorge Alor | @elpadrino Mario Valle | @bilbeny Jaime Limón | @mrlemon /// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chen Qiufan (AKA Stanley Chan) is an award-winning science fiction writer, screenwriter, creative producer, and columnist. He is the president of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association and the founder of the content development studio Thema Mundi.     Chen joins the show to discuss his latest novel, AI 2041: Ten Visions for the Future, which he co-wrote with former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee.     Part science fiction, part science forecasting, over ten short stories AI 2041 imagines the different ways, good and bad, that AI will impact our society. The central thesis? AI will transform our lives, but we remain masters of our fate.     Important Links: Qiufan's Website Qiufan's Twitter Show Notes: Qiufan's sci-fi influences When did the third wave of AI begin? Why is modern sci-fi so dystopian? How AI is going to impact education Hidden biases & the objective function Deep fakes & narrative collapse Accelerationism, balance & Daoism Do we need real jobs? Happiness is a byproduct Living in a post-scarcity society What's next? MORE! Books Mentioned: AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future; by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan Bullshit Jobs: A Theory; by David Graeber Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek; by Manu Saadia Waste Tide; by Chen Qiufan

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This week, host Megan Cattel speaks to science fiction and fantasy translator, Emily Xueni Jin, on the art of translation and the rise of Chinese science fiction.During the course of this discussion, Emily explains her process of translating work, and the special relationship she develops to writers who are bilingual themselves. The result is often a collaborative process, as Emily herself explains, “In a way, you basically develop a voice for them in the English language. Which they, in turn, being bilingual themselves, come to inhabit as well.”Megan and Emily also discuss the essentialization of Chinese science fiction, where writers are often expected to answer questions on Chinese political issues completely unrelated to their work. As Emily points out in the discussion, her community of Chinese science fiction writers are usually just "sci-fi nerds," telling universal truths about the human condition.This is a fascinating conversation about the power of language and the role of a translator, not merely to translate words, but as a mediator between cultures.About Emily Xueni Jin: an essayist, science fiction and fantasy translator, translating both from Chinese to English and the other way around. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2017, and she is currently a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University. Her most recent Chinese to English translations can be found in “The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories”, the first Chinese speculative fiction anthology in translation produced by female and non-binary creators, and “AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future”, a collection of science fiction and essays cowritten by Dr. Kaifu Lee and Chen Qiufan. She's currently a columnist for Sixth Tone.

The U.S. fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf hadn't had time to react. Now it, too, was in flames.In the eighty sixth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are committing Quantum Genocide. Granting our 2019 chat a sequel, Chen Qiufan & I discuss the demonic wildcard of his 10 stories in AI 2041 (an idiosyncratic blend of fictional and non-fictional speculation co-authored alongside tech god Kai-fu Lee). California burns, the 1% are slaughtered like dogs, and a new dark age commences. Boot up, log in, and accelerate.-// NEWS ITEMS //Read: How does Chinese science fiction tell China's global strategy? Analysis by LSE China ForesightRead: Matt Turner's preface to his translation of Lu Xun's Weeds: what is the advantage of another translation?Listen: John Minford on four classics of Chinese literature that he believes best reveal the old civilisation and the heart & spirit of Chinese people today.Read: Emily Xueni Jin reviews the development of sci-fi in China and how a new generation of authors is domesticating the genre by focusing on traditionsEvent: Online book club meeting on Cherries on a Pomegranate Tree, written by Li Er and translated by Dave Haysom (& to be published on 27th February)-// WORD OF THE DAY //(缠 – chán – to be haunted/to be entangled)-// Handy TrChFic Links //Help Support TrChFic // Episode TranscriptsINSTAGRAM ⚛️ TWITTER ⚛️ DISCORD

My long deep talk with the famous Chinese sci-fi writer Stanley Chan / Chen QiufanHe used AI to write his award-winning books! We talk about the future of using AI in content creation, climate change, Elon Musk and many more topics!My previous interview with Chen Qiufan: https://youtu.be/4Jgq5uYo0Jo 00:00 — Intro1:09 — Climate change 5:00 — Will we reach a better future?7:50 — Will external crisis help our planet?12:50 — Can we rely on AI?14:45 — Will Elon Musk save us?19:13 — Current problems with privacy20:18 — Is Stanley ready to be a cyborg23:09 — Different human species using technology27:10 — AI optimistic scenarios 34:45 — Do writers need AI?48:18 — Forecast of using AI in creating55:20 — Risks of AI 1:03:33 — Stanley's sci-fi mustreads1:06:56 — Stanley's current projectsMy Twitter: https://twitter.com/mustreaderMy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gregmustreaderCollabs: mazdrid@gmail.com#AI #scifi #ChatGPT

Science fiction writer Chen Qiufan ( Stanley Chen), author of Waste Tide, discusses the feedback loop between science fiction and innovation, what happened when he went to live with shamans in China, how science fiction can also be a psychedelic, and why it's significant that linear time arrived from the West and took over ideas of circular or recurring time between Chinese dynasties. 

Samedi 29 octobre, Emmanuel Lechypre a reçu a reçu Chen Qiufan, écrivain, chroniqueur et scénariste chinois de science fiction, Jean-Marc Daniel, professeur émérite à l'ESCP et David Mourey, enseignant en sciences économiques dans l'émission la librairie de l'éco sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission le vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.

My guest today is Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chan. He is an award-winning Chinese science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter. Chen's fiction, described as "science fiction realism", focuses on individuals' internal struggles during times of accelerated change. And recently, he collaborated with Kai-Fu Lee to co-write and publish a novel called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. We discussed: How did Qiufan and Kai-fu come up with the idea to co-write a sci-fi book, and what are some AI-related technologies mentioned in the book? How can we prepare for the future facing God-like AI technology such as DeepFake? What moral and ethical code should we consider when we can bring dead people “alive” using AI tools? What are some concerns about using AI arts creations tools like MidJourney? Should artists and writers be worried that AI will replace them in the future? How writers can embrace new technologies and build a new way to communicate with readers? What's Chen Qiufan's philosophy regarding creating his sci-fi stories compared with Liu Cixin (Three Body Problems)? A brief introduction to Chinese Chaoshan culture and Chinese New Year rituals. Do Chinese people have religions? What's the relationship between religion and science? How ancient Chinese books and schools of thought inspired sci-fi creation? Briefly discuss psychedelic and human consciousness. What's the meaning of life from a sci-fi writer's perspective? Books and Links mentioned in this episode: Chen Qiufan website A sci-fi vision of life in 2041 AI 2041 by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Chinese writer Su Shi Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs Midjourney NEARCON BETA 2022 AI 2041 - TRLab The Subtle Art NFT Collection The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin Chaoshan Culture Waste Tide The Large Hadron Collider I Ching Opium Wars Stanley Kubrick Gaia DAO

Narratives of the future play an important role in shaping our reality. Depending on the point of view from which they are crafted, they can describe hopes and fears of citizens, the political project of the ruling classes, or can offer alternatives to the status quo. In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro and Alicia García-Herrero are joined by LYU Guangzhao, who helped navigate some of China's science fictions works and these visions of the future. Artwork and science fictions mentioned: •    China 2098 artwork by FAN Wennan •    Waste Tide by CHEN Qiufan •    AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee and CHEN Qiufan •    My Country Does Not Dream by HAN Song •    Ether by ZHANG Ran •    Silent City by MA Boyong This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics. ZhōngHuá Mundus is a newsletter by Bruegel, bringing you monthly analysis of China in the world, as seen from Europe. Sign up now to receive it in your mailbox!

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Silvia Lindtner of the University of Michigan about her book Prototype Nation. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how China's maker movement inspired the Party leadership to encourage tech entrepreneurship, how Shenzhen rose to such prominence in technology production, the fetishization of the shanzhai movement, and much more.5:29 How narratives on Chinese tech innovation have shifted14:10 What made China's technological innovation possible?20:37 State support for the maker movement and mass innovation29:52 The technocratic and entrepreneurial mindset of the CCP38:45 Techno-optimism in China versus the West45:57 Shenzhen's "hacker paradise" as a transnational project50:02 Orientalism in the West's fascination with shanzhai, or copycat, cultureA complete transcript of this podcast is available at SupChina.com.RecommendationsSilvia: In This Moment, We Are Happy by Chen Qiufan and Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures by Kalindi Vora and Neda AtanasoskiKaiser: Sarmat Archery based in Kiev, UkraineSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 2017, leading AI expert Kai-Fu Lee shared a dire prediction: half of all jobs – both blue collar and white collar – could be automated within ten years, replacing the workforce with solutions built on artificial intelligence. Brad and Kai-Fu discuss what this coming change means for national economies and for people who care about their work. Kai-Fu lays out practical steps policy makers can take today to prepare, the three areas he believes human intelligence will continue to lead, and why he remains an AI optimist.Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has driven innovation in AI research and development for over three decades. He is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture's Artificial Intelligence Institute. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. In the field of AI, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion, as well as the world's first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. His bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI, as well as the greater societal impacts wrought by the AI technology revolution. His new co-authored book AI 2041 explores how AI will change our world over the next 20 years.Click here for the episode transcript.

In this episode, Part Two of our two part series on Chen Qiufan's first novel, Rob and Lee try to pivot away from the narrower discussions of what happens in the novel and more on a broader discussion of its place in Chinese Science Fiction. Whether or not they succeed in doing that...well, we'll let you decide.

This is part 一 in a two part series on the novel called Wast Tide. This is Chen Qiufan's first novel, its a science-fiction novel that touches on environmentalism and transhumanism. Join Rob and Lee as the struggle with this novel .

Saronik talks with Manish Melwani about outdated visions of the future and stale science fiction ideas that just won't die. Manish is a Singaporean writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop in 2014, and then completed a master's thesis at NYU entitled Starports, Portals and Port Cities: Science Fiction and Fantasy in Empire's Wake. (That's where he met Saronik.) Manish has published several short stories, with several more—and a novel—on the way. They talk about science fiction's imperialist heritage and how going to Mars is just a distraction from the imaginative (and literal) dead end our civilization faces. They also throw shade on Cecil Rhodes and certain tech moguls who have completely missed the point of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Manish's perspective has been shaped by many other writers and theorists including: John Rieder's work on Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany's seminal essays, Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding, a group biography of John W. Campbell and other figures from the Golden Age of science fiction, and Kim Stanley Robinson's recent climate sci-fi oeuvre. Further reading includes Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future, Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, Malka Older's Centenal Cycle, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri, and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. Image created by Saronik Bosu using open source vectors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Saronik talks with Manish Melwani about outdated visions of the future and stale science fiction ideas that just won't die. Manish is a Singaporean writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop in 2014, and then completed a master's thesis at NYU entitled Starports, Portals and Port Cities: Science Fiction and Fantasy in Empire's Wake. (That's where he met Saronik.) Manish has published several short stories, with several more—and a novel—on the way. They talk about science fiction's imperialist heritage and how going to Mars is just a distraction from the imaginative (and literal) dead end our civilization faces. They also throw shade on Cecil Rhodes and certain tech moguls who have completely missed the point of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Manish's perspective has been shaped by many other writers and theorists including: John Rieder's work on Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany's seminal essays, Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding, a group biography of John W. Campbell and other figures from the Golden Age of science fiction, and Kim Stanley Robinson's recent climate sci-fi oeuvre. Further reading includes Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future, Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, Malka Older's Centenal Cycle, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri, and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. Image created by Saronik Bosu using open source vectors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Saronik talks with Manish Melwani about outdated visions of the future and stale science fiction ideas that just won't die. Manish is a Singaporean writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop in 2014, and then completed a master's thesis at NYU entitled Starports, Portals and Port Cities: Science Fiction and Fantasy in Empire's Wake. (That's where he met Saronik.) Manish has published several short stories, with several more—and a novel—on the way. They talk about science fiction's imperialist heritage and how going to Mars is just a distraction from the imaginative (and literal) dead end our civilization faces. They also throw shade on Cecil Rhodes and certain tech moguls who have completely missed the point of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Manish's perspective has been shaped by many other writers and theorists including: John Rieder's work on Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany's seminal essays, Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding, a group biography of John W. Campbell and other figures from the Golden Age of science fiction, and Kim Stanley Robinson's recent climate sci-fi oeuvre. Further reading includes Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future, Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, Malka Older's Centenal Cycle, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri, and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. Image created by Saronik Bosu using open source vectors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-fiction

Saronik talks with Manish Melwani about outdated visions of the future and stale science fiction ideas that just won't die. Manish is a Singaporean writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop in 2014, and then completed a master's thesis at NYU entitled Starports, Portals and Port Cities: Science Fiction and Fantasy in Empire's Wake. (That's where he met Saronik.) Manish has published several short stories, with several more—and a novel—on the way. They talk about science fiction's imperialist heritage and how going to Mars is just a distraction from the imaginative (and literal) dead end our civilization faces. They also throw shade on Cecil Rhodes and certain tech moguls who have completely missed the point of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Manish's perspective has been shaped by many other writers and theorists including: John Rieder's work on Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany's seminal essays, Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding, a group biography of John W. Campbell and other figures from the Golden Age of science fiction, and Kim Stanley Robinson's recent climate sci-fi oeuvre. Further reading includes Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future, Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide, Malka Older's Centenal Cycle, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri, and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. Image created by Saronik Bosu using open source vectors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Das deutsche „Kapsel“-Magazin hat sich seit einigen Jahren ganz und gar zeitgenössischer chinesischer Science-Fiction verschrieben. Nun ist im Rahmen des Projekts ein erstes Buch entstanden. „Science-Fiction aus China. Sechs Geschichten von heute über morgen“ heißt der Titel. Marten Hahn die Geschichten gelesen. Rezension von Marten Hahn. Fruehwerk Verlag, 160 Seiten, 25 Euro ISBN 978-3-941295-22-3

As you guys know, I am dabbling into crypto and NFTs. I know lots of you asked me to talk to more people in this area.   I'm bringing my good friend Mike Vineyard back. We did a podcast with him about a year ago. So it was quite a long time ago.  He's the founder of Ecommerce Dreams and Rainmaker Agency. He's a digital marketer and he also is a very adventurous guy ‘cause he is into all of these things and he is pretty forward looking in terms of the blockchain. And I'm very excited talking about all of these topics.   Link from the episode: Mike Vineyard's episode Part 1 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/132-bali-special-mike-vineyard RTFKT - https://rtfkt.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RTFKTstudios Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rtfktstudios NFT Scoring - https://nftscoring.com NFTGo - https://nftgo.io Platoondao - https://opensea.io/collection/platoon-dao Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLATOONDAO Neuralink - https://neuralink.com Elon Musk Twitter - https://twitter.com/elonmusk   Book Mike Recommends: “AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future” by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan - https://www.amazon.com/AI-2041-Ten-Visions-For-Our-Future?tag=10mj-20   Connect with Mike: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvineyard Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/therealmikevineyard Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mikevineyard Twitter - https://twitter.com/iammikevineyard YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/videos Website - https://www.mikevineyard.com Podcast - https://www.mikevineyard.com/podcast Websites and Company Social Media: Rainmaker Agency - https://rainmaker.agency Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainmakeragency Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rainmakeragency   ANATOLY's TOOLS:   Product Development: Helim10 - I use it for  Product Research, Keyword tracking and Listing Optimization .  SPECIAL DEAL: Get 50% your first month or 10% every month: http://bit.ly/CORNERSIIH10  Pickfu - I use it for split testing all of my products and for validation ideas .  SPECIAL DEAL: First split test 50% 0ff  https://www.pickfu.com/10mj   Trademarking: Trademark Angels - For all my trademarking needs.  SPECIAL: Mention Anatoly and 10MJ podcast and get 10% Off your trademark.   HR: Fiverr -  I hire my 3dMockup person and images label designer here on Fiverr - http://bit.ly/10mjFIVERR Upwork - I hire people long term on Upwork - upwork.com  Loom.com - for creating SOP's, I record everything on Loom and give to my VA's Keepa.com - to track historical data such as prices   ANATOLY's  3 Favorite  Business Books: DotCom Secrets by Russel Brunson - I think this is a must read for every online entrepreneurs - http://bit.ly/10MJDotCom 4 hours work week by Tim Ferriss  - This book changed my life and made me become an entrepreneur - http://bit.ly/10MJ4WW The Greatest Salesman In The World  by Og Mandino - Old book but it goes to the core of selling -  http://bit.ly/10MJGREATSM    DISCLAIMER: Some Links are affiliate, it costs you nothing, but helps to keep this podcast on the float   Have questions? Go to https://www.10millionjourney.com Follow us on Instagram: @10millionjourney

Painter and installation artist, Qu Lei Lei, co-founded the Stars movement in China in 1979, when a group of artists grabbed national attention by displaying their work in public outside official channels and marching under the slogans of political democracy and artistic freedom. Decades later, Qu Lei Lei is still creating art that is making waves internationally. His recent work highlights the use of misinformation for political purposes, and how vulnerable the lives of ordinary people are to being “knocked over” by politics, pandemic, and environmental or financial disaster. Our reporter Paul Waters interviewed him in the home he shares with co-artist Caroline Deane. And as China hosts the Winter Olympics, artists are marking the sporting contest in their own way. Inside the China Winter Sport Art Festival in Beijing, dozens of artists have been customizing snowboards. We hear from one of them, abstract painter Shuang Wu. And also from China's controversial “pandaman”, artist Zhao Bandi, whose signature panda sculptures are on show in the festival courtyard. Plus: What lies ahead for China – and the rest of the world – after the Olympics? China's science fiction authors are coming up with scenarios based on new technology, artificial intelligence, Covid, climate change and the other uncertainties of life. And they're also looking to new parts of the world for inspiration too. We hear from two award-winning sci fi writers. Chen Qiufan is the author of a series of short stories called AI 2041, 10 Visions of Our Future. And Xia Jia's first English language collection, A Summer Beyond Your Reach, was published a few months ago. We also hear from Chinese electronic dance music star, Corsak, on how he tailors his music depending on whether it's for a domestic or an international audience. Presenter: Chi Chi Izundu Producer: Paul Waters (Photo: Qu Lei Lei in front of his painting Mastering Our Fate. Credit: Paul Waters)

616: Kai-Fu Lee discusses the evolution of artificial intelligence and the 20-year horizon for its implementation. Kai-Fu shares why 20 years was an appropriate time horizon for his book on the future of AI, why Chen Qiufan, a science-fiction novelist, was the perfect person to partner with, and how the two of them originated the idea for ten visions of AI. He also discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on society including the future of work, changes in society, and shaping of opinions. Finally, Kai-Fu gives his perspective on the factors necessary to lead to greater adoption of artificial intelligence and how the global leadership of certain areas of its development and implementation has evolved.

SF소설가인 Chen Quifan은 디스토피아적 미래에 대해 걱정하지 않는다. 다만, 그는 인공지능의 발전으로 우리 삶이 더욱 윤택해지며, 건강하고 안전한 삶이 될 것이라고 본다. 그는 우리를 기다리고 있을 과학과 기술의 진보에 대한 놀라운 예상을 공유하며, 우리를 2041년의 세상 속으로 초대한다. " 미래를 우리가 바라는 대로 창조하기 위해선, 먼저 우리는 그 미래를 상상하는 것부터 배워야 한다." --Chen Qiufan.

L'écrivain de science-fiction Chen Qiufan n'est pas inquiet d'un futur dystopique. Au contraire, il pense que le développement de l'intelligence artificielle va améliorer notre vie, notre santé et notre sécurité. Il nous embarque dans un voyage dans les 20 prochaines années de l'IA et nous partage quelques prédictions incroyables de l'avancement de la science et des technologies qui pourraient nous attendre. « Pour chaque futur que l'on souhaite créer, nous devons d'abord apprendre à l'imaginer, » dit-il.

Mood reading and book slumps are two topics that come up often in the book community. Sometimes it's hard to stick to a reading schedule and we read whatever strikes our fancy. Other times it's hard to read at all. And of course, mood reading and book slumps can be hard to separate. Books Mentioned: Finna by Nino Cipri Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu) Fray by Rowenna Miller Aftermath by Chuck Wendig All Systems Red by Martha Wells Discworld by Terry Pratchett Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie Strange Practice by Vivan Shaw Find Us Online: Blog Discord Twitter Instagram Support Us: Become a Patron Buy Us a Coffee Music: Intro: "The Legend of Iya" courtesy of https://philter.no Outro: "A Quest Unfolds" courtesy of https://philter.no Detailed show notes can be found at https://thefantasyinn.com

A man comes out of isolation and walks in a trance through the centre of Shanghai, marvelling at an empty shopping mall and the changes he sees around him. It sounds like a news report but it's actually the plot of an eerie sci-fi short story written by Chinese author Chen Qiufan (also known as Stanley Chan) last year. He speaks to Tina about his new work and life imitating art in science fiction. How is COVID-19 influencing artists? The Singaporean art collective PHUNK, tells us about updating their SARS-inspired artwork ‘Control Chaos' to reflect the current global crisis. ‘Stay apart – and keep connecting' – that's the philosophy behind a new daily online comedy broadcast made by the British comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long. Robin and Josie talk to Tina about creating a space to support artists and entertain audiences in the age of lockdown. Plus from home concerts with John Legend to the campaigning anthems of Bobi Wine we explore how the music world is responding to the coronavirus. Presented by Tina Daheley Image: Chen Quifan Image credit: Lin Yi'an

Recipient of Best Short Science Fiction award by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association in 2012 Written by Chen Qiufan and translated by Thomas Moran, this awarding-winning sci-fi short story has been selected from the book The Sound of Salt Forming – Short Stories by the Post-'80s Generation in China, published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in 2016. Chen Qiufan was born in 1981 in China's Guangdong Province. He is currently working in the IT industry. He mainly writes science fiction.

This is a special episode examining the rise in the popularity and influence of Chinese Science Fiction. In the last twenty years, Chinese Sci Fi has flourished across a range of media, spurred by successes like Liu Cixin's Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem, and this year's Chinese funded and created movie The Wandering Earth. In this episode I talk to two writers: Chen Qiufan and Peng Simeng, and an editor, Gabrielle Wei of Science Fiction World, all based in China, to discuss the issues that are important to Chinese writers and to find out what opportunities writers from the West might have in this newly emerging market.

Lao Sun lived on the seventeenth floor facing the open street, nothing between him and the sky. If he woke in the morning to darkness, it was the smog's doing for sure. Through the murky air outside the window, he had to squint to see the tall buildings silhouetted against the yellow-gray background like a sandy-colored relief print. The cars on the road all had their highbeams on and their horns blaring, crammed one against the other at the intersection into one big mess. | Copyright 2015 by Chen Qiufan. Translated by Ken Liu and Carmen Yiling Yan. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

I still remember that evening: In the heavy air, the plastic dragonflies hovered just below the eaves like miniature helicopters, drifting about slightly even though there was no wind. I came home, and Dad was already in the house but kept the lights off. The setting sun came in through cracks in the window, and his face seemed indescribably thin in the dim, yellow light, like a stranger's. | Copyright 2014 by Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu). Narrated by Alex Hyde-White.