Chapter 602 - Creating a Hacker Culture (Two More Requests for Subscription)
This wave of hacking frenzy came so quickly and quickly that many people didn't react at all, and everyone around them was talking about the novel and the filming. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
If you don't know "The Matrix", it's out!
Weibo, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even WeChat public accounts are talking about this novel, and after more than half a year, Lin Han has achieved such good results in science fiction, and his fans are of course extremely happy.
In fact, Lin Han also knows that after the movie is released, there will be a wave of rise in the novel, which may be even more powerful than the "Martian" movie driving the novel!
Because the movie "The Matrix" is worth watching repeatedly, many people will look for novels to get the answers they want from the text if they don't understand the movie well.
This is human nature, otherwise the National People's Congress Publishing House would not treat this novel as the champion seed player of this year, and there is still too much potential to be tapped!
It's crazy, it's crazy!
Seven days a week, the sales of "The Matrix" in mainland China reached 3.1 million, counting the original 1.32 million pre-sales, and the total sales came to the level of 4.42 million.
This achievement undoubtedly broke the first-week sales of new books in the last ten years, far higher than the sales of any previous book of Lin Han in the same period!
The previous pre-sale results of "Hyperion" were much better, with 1.58 million before the official sale, but the sales in the first week were only 2.15 million copies, adding up to only 3.73 million copies.
This terrible progress has terrified those in the book market, and generally speaking, it is very difficult to progress after reaching the top, because the potential is insufficient!
But Lin Han's book sales are better than a book, and a book's word-of-mouth evaluation is better than a book, so won't the next book sell 5 million copies in the first week?
Not to mention ordinary writers, let's just say that there are very few top best-selling authors who can sell 5 million copies a year, let alone within a week!
Now Lin Han is already a single stall in the book sales market, and there is no one who can even compete with him, and even began to go abroad to compete with the world's top best-selling authors.
Unlike last year's accumulation of quantity, this year he took the quality route, but it still seems that the effect is still very good, and readers are quite buying it, and the novel is highly evaluated!
Many professional book reviewers even find it quite difficult to interpret "The Matrix", and writing book reviews without authorization will be very flawed, and a week is simply not enough for them to study.
There are very few reviews of this novel in the English-language market, not because it is not very popular, but because book reviewers dare not rush into it, they need to read the novel repeatedly to fully understand the meaning of it!
The plot of the novel is not difficult, but the plot jumps too fast and requires undivided analysis and thinking.
So a few days later, Wil-Johnson, a big name in the book critic world and a former Pulitzer Prize-winning in the United States, published his own review of the Matrix novel in the New York Times, firing the first shot.
"In the past ten days, I have been reading and reminiscing about the huge world of novels called "The Matrix".
There is indeed quite a lot of content in this novel, and Lin Han uses the matrix to explain fatalism, causality, human nature, relativity, mechanical materialism, dialectical materialism, etc. In other words, several major systems in the world of human philosophy have been explained by Lin Han in his novels.
Lin Han just wanted to ask three questions: who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going!
From beginning to end, the core idea of this novel is to talk about cause and effect, everything in the world has a cause and effect, and the deep message revealed behind the novel is fascinating.
These deep connotations are not singular, but diverse, and almost everyone can make completely different interpretations according to their different knowledge structures, religious beliefs, and cultural preferences, and these interpretations can often be justified in their respective discourse circles.
Few science fiction novels have provoked as many genres and long-term reflections as The Matrix. These reflections are not only being enjoyed by readers, but also by experts and scholars, which I call the wave of hacker culture.
Scientists argue for the possibility of human-machine connection and virtual reality technology in The Matrix, science fiction writers discuss the borrowing and development of classic science fiction consciousness in The Matrix, philosophers argue about the cognition and ontology embodied in the novel, people from different religious backgrounds dissect the novel in order to find their preferred religious meaning, and ethicists discuss the dilemma of choosing between fantasy and reality.
I have a couple of friends from academia who are writing an anthology about The Matrix, and when it is released, you will see how this novel will bring to the academic community......"
Western philosophers are doing the same thing as Chinese philosophers, and they are all studying the practical implications of this novel, but they started much later than Chinese philosophers.
Although the physical books in Chinese and English are released on the same day, there is a free online version in China for a long time, although it is a little inconvenient to read, but doing research is to overcome all kinds of difficulties!
With the New York Times as the pioneer, the rest of the book critics began to parse it, but they didn't dare to say anything.
It's obviously a novel, but not many people care about the plot of the novel, and no one pays attention to the skills and writing of the novel itself, these people are all paying attention to the ideological field derived from the novel.
The hacker wave has gradually evolved into a hacker culture, and many people are curious about the mysterious field of hacking!
When it comes to hackers, people probably think of some computer experts with unkempt hair and a languid look.
In the early days, they worked hard to make it clear that "hacker" was not a pejorative term, and that it did not refer to criminals who hacked into computer networks.
When people got to the point, they started telling people how to be a hacker, and they compared hackers to painters.
When people are inspired and determined to become hackers, they start instilling in these people the "code of conduct" of hackers, the art of questioning, and so on.
However, this is not the whole of hacker culture, thanks to this popular novel, the "hacker community" with the Internet as the carrier has appeared in large numbers!
According to incomplete statistics, there are currently tens of thousands of websites or virtual communities on the Internet that are directly related to "The Matrix", and there are hundreds of thousands of indirect ones!
Netizens who are addicted to it call themselves "black fans", they are like the communication between Neo and Morpheus at the beginning of the novel, exchanging experiences about "black science" with each other on the electronic network, and even initiating a big discussion about some details of the novel, sharing the news of the shooting of novels and movies.
Since most of these parts are proficient in computers and networks, many of them are hardcore characters, and there are even real hackers hiding in them.
These websites or communities related to "The Matrix" themselves also play a role in screening members, and if the technology is not up to par, you can't get in at all!
In this case, Lin Han's long-planned official website also surfaced, which was built with a lot of money by their company, and was built as complex as the world in the movie.
This is not only to promote the novel of "The Matrix", but also to promote the movie that will be released later, which can be regarded as a base for viral marketing.
The whole website presents a gloomy tone, and from time to time there is a green program code sliding down from it, which is actually Lin Han referring to some renderings of the movie version, and first got here to let netizens satisfy their hunger!
The site may seem simple on the outside, but a lot of the content requires visitors to use a password to access it like a real hacker.
"We're not here because we only, we're here because we're not free. ”
"Listen to me, I know why you're here. I know everything you do, I know why you have trouble sleeping, why you live alone, why you sit in front of your computer day and night. ”
"Do you think the world is real? Do you think what you see, ask, and hear is true? If you want to know the real world, you need to make a choice!"
The icons of a red pill and a blue pill appear on the computer screen, which is an obvious selection link, and different selections will jump to different pages!
When netizens entered these websites, they more or less felt the similarity between reality and the plot of the novel, and the boundary between fantasy and reality was blurred again in reality.
Such a mysterious website has of course attracted countless netizens to come in and explore the secrets, many netizens have been blocked by many levels, and only a few people who are familiar with novels and skilled people have entered it!
What appeared in the eyes of this small number of people were some revelations that seemed very real, and there were so many things presented on the full documentary style of photos, from blurry photos of mechanically planted humans, to the terrifying tentacles of mechanical octopuses, and the desolation of the world of Zion.
None of these things are exposed head-on, but adopt a perspective similar to that of paparazzi, many of which are scratched on scales, but they look like they are real!
These photos seem to be no different from the real ones, netizens know that this is fake, most of them are movie scenes, but there is a chill behind them.
"You want to know what it is? Matrix is everywhere. ”
This sentence gradually emerged from the monitor, as if it was answering questions from netizens, but then another text was exciting!
"It was all around us, even in this tiny room. When you look out the window, or turn on the TV, you can see it. You can feel him when you go to work, you can feel it when you go to play, and you can feel it when you pay taxes.
It's the world that blinds you so that you can't see the truth!
Now open your eyes, open your eyes to find the truth of this world, don't be confused anymore, you are the savior of this world!"
Countless netizens have been inspired by this passage, everyone is a savior!