Artificial Intelligence, Big Airplanes, Chips... Approaching the Starting Line of the "Strongest Brain" at the Shanghai Book Fair | Children | Big Airplanes
"Everyone's life cannot do without science. When children understand how humanity has gone from the past to the present, and how it will move towards the future; when children have a relatively thorough understanding of the origin and development of all things, they can become open, tolerant, and able to communicate with the world when they grow up." A group of cutting-edge and popular science books appeared at the 2023 Shanghai Book Fair. At the "Science Starting Line" book sharing conference held at the flagship store of Duoyun Academy, Zhang Wenhong, the director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, who serves as the deputy editor in chief of this series, said.
The starting line of science is edited by Academician Chu Junhao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This year, the Shanghai Book Fair released the second and third volumes, including "A Brief History of Vaccines," "I Want to Sail," "Wonderful Tales," "The Strongest Brain," "A Health Lesson for Children," and "Space Explorer." Through rich scientific knowledge, "truth" is conveyed, "goodness" is conveyed through stories of scientists exploring the world and dedicating to humanity, and "beauty" is conveyed through good writing and design. Chu Junhao stated that the "Science Starting Line" series of books keeps up with the development of the times and covers a wider range of topics, including artificial intelligence, vaccines, oceans, space, health, brain, etc. "Regardless of what children will engage in in in the future, the key is to cultivate two abilities: the ability to learn new knowledge and the ability to solve practical problems. Only by constantly learning and exploring can we achieve integration and connect different things, which is what we advocate today as' interdisciplinary crossing '."
The classic science popularization book brand "100000 Whys" has launched "100000 Whys · Science Picture Book Library", further expanding its readership to younger readers. Editor in Chief and Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zeng Fanyi, introduced the planning concept of integrating scientific stories, scientific Q&A, and scientific art interaction in this book set. While exploring new forms of original scientific picture books, he hopes to cultivate a group of original scientific picture book creation talents.
Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic in the field of technology that has spread to various aspects of social life since the beginning of this year. Technology writer Tu Zipei proposed in his new book "The Second Brain: How Brain Computer Writing Changes Personal Development and Family Inheritance" that everyone needs to build a "second brain" to become an "intelligent enhancer" in the era of artificial intelligence. At the new book sharing meeting, Tu Zipei mentioned that good creativity is the result of brain computer collaboration, and one should be good at asking questions to the big language model. He believes that the big language model represented by ChatGPT is not the final form of Internet products, and its end point should be personalized and humanized AI products, that is, everyone's "second brain".
The new book "Gu Xuanfen: Writing Ideals in the Blue Sky of the Motherland" by Gu Xuanfen, a master of aircraft design and one of the founders of aviation technology in New China, has entered the Zero Bay Library. On the cover, the seemingly ordinary pattern is actually Gu Lao's aircraft design manuscript, and on the back of the package is hidden the "Genealogy of Chinese Aircraft", which is quite ingenious. Gu Xuanfen has been engaged in aircraft design and aviation for 70 years. His father, Gu Tinglong, is a bibliologist, catalogist, and librarian. Peng Weiguo, a disciple of Gu Tinglong and Vice President of Century Publishing Group, sighed, "The patriotism of the two generations of the Gu family is an endless book, and the inheritance of the family's bloodline is touching."
The long documentary literature "Wings of China" depicts the operation, development, innovation, and breakthroughs of China's aviation from the establishment of the People's Republic of China to the new era. "What people are most concerned about now may be one big and one small thing, the small one is the chip, and the big one is the big airplane. Qian Xuesen, the father of Chinese aerospace, once said that building a big airplane is even more difficult than building a missile. When I write this book, I deeply feel the winding and magnificent journey of the big airplane engineering. Zhan Dongxin, a writer who has long been interested in the aerospace industry, shares with readers in the" Sinan Literature House - Reading Light "activity area.". Writer He Jianming's new documentary literature work "My Heart Flies" is aimed at Hua Hong, a new force in China's chip manufacturing industry, to decipher the chip industry.
Li Zaiping: A Pioneer of DNA Research in China. In early spring 2017, the author Pan Zhen first met 92 year old Li Zaiping, who was lying in a hospital bed in Zhongshan. Whenever he talked about his profession, his eyes lit up. In the book, we play with WeChat, pay attention to the official account of science and technology frontier, comment on human cloning and other details, so that readers can get closer to this elderly scientist who is still following the trend of the times.
According to data from the retail data monitoring agency of the Chinese book market, in the past five years, the proportion of science popularization books in the overall book market has continued to rise, especially children's science popularization books, which have become the highest proportion sub sector of the children's book market. How to choose high-quality popular science reading materials? The first domestic science popularization book promotion brand "New Discovery Science Popularization Book List" has released its third issue of book lists at the Shanghai Book Fair, including 6 sub lists of "Science and Humanities", 6 sub lists of "Science and Life", and 5 sub lists of "Science Youth". 17 books including "A Brief History of Chips" have been selected. The member units of the "New Discovery Science Popularization Publishing Alliance" jointly issued a proposal, advocating that science popularization publishers across the country should be responsible for science popularization, adhere to scientificity and authenticity, pay attention to popularity and interest, enrich the forms and dissemination channels of science popularization works, and create warm and innovative science popularization content.