On May 23, Beijing Science and Technology Week Science Fiction Branch and Shijingshan Science and Technology Week Conference "Science Fiction World: Sci-Fi Industry Summit Forum" was held as scheduled in Shougang Park, Shijingshan District, Beijing. Yingqing XU, director of the Future Laboratory of Tsinghua University, attended the meeting entitled "Multidisciplinary Perspective: Science Fiction and Technological Innovation" Academic Salon.
There is an inseparable connection between science fiction, science, and popular science. The future vision described by Verne, the "father of science fiction" in the 19th century, also gradually entered reality in the 20th century. Science fiction inspires technological innovation, and cutting-edge science, in turn, inspires science fiction, forming a virtuous circle.
Science fiction and technological innovation are not purely technical issues, but in-depth thinking about the present, imaginative construction of the future, and retrospective memories of the past under a multidisciplinary perspective. This coincides with the vision of the future laboratory of "computing, communication, media, and art converging into one".