黑眼豆豆主唱打造科幻动漫世界

    故事的主人公之一是从公元3000年穿越回来的机器人历史学家。谈到这位虚构的人物时，亚当斯说：“四个月前，我在电子邮箱里收到了一张卡酷机器人的草图，如今他已经变成真的了。”他还提到了实现创意过程的技术现象：“创意和合作原来都只存在于我们的脑海，现在已经变成了现实。我们把它称作VAVADA，即将视觉的、听觉的、虚拟的东西转化为现实的东西，将数据转化为由原子组成的实物。这就是人类现在VAVADA的能力。”

    除了会动的机器人之外，亚当斯还对故事里这个新世界的电子游戏潜力感到兴奋。他曾经为微软（Microsoft）和育碧（Ubisoft）开发Kinect Xbox 360的音乐跳舞游戏《黑眼豆豆：生涯》（The Black Eyed Peas Experience）。“如今电子游戏的运算能力令人惊讶。我自己就是握着游戏操纵杆长大的，游戏机雅达利2600伴随着我的童年。看看游戏的智力水平、游戏的种类和游戏里的人工智能，现在的游戏是多么复杂细致。大家可以通过身体与它们互动，这是以前做不到的。这是多么令人惊奇的事情啊。”

    《巫师与机器人》让亚当斯能有机会重温童年。与此同时，这个故事还对学生的STEM教育有所帮助。亚当斯是看着传统漫画《超人》（Superman）、《蜘蛛侠》（Spider-Man）和《蝙蝠侠》（Batman），动画卡通《变形金刚》（Transformers）、《正义战士》（Centurions）和《万能麦斯》（Mighty Max）长大的。他甚至还在《X战警前传：金刚狼》（X-Men Origins: Wolverine）中出演了“幻影”约翰•瑞斯。他说：“我现在仍然像个孩子。在这个社会和文化氛围中，我长成了一个成年人，但我的好奇心依然像孩子一样。所以我在奇妙的幻想世界中融入了真实的科学和机器人技术。”

    亚当斯表示，他在许多企业中获得成功的秘诀在于他选择了好的合作伙伴。

    亚当斯说：“这就是你有可能与之合作的人际圈的力量。这就像我的Beats耳机或英特尔超级本一样。我很高兴让这些成为我的创造力的延伸。”

    如果说这一点并不是体现得十分明显，亚当斯还对技术十分着迷。他还与美国国家航空航天局（NASA）和科技灵感与认知组织（FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology）这类推动技术进步、同时促进科学教育的机构有着密切的联系。

    他说：“计算机拓展了我的想法和我的生活。能够把自己的想法输入电脑，创作和编写歌曲，并与全世界实时分享，这深深吸引了我。它激发了我的好奇心，让我从在计算机上写歌发展到希望学习如何编写程序。我对技术充满热情，现在还在麻省理工学院（MIT）进修计算机科学课程。”

    这种热情还带领着他开展了一个新的音乐项目，尽管他目前还不愿意透露太多细节。其中包含两项他的爱好：机器人和音乐。

    他说：“我和其他人正在创作一些东西，我打算在2014年公布出来。它涉及到机器和作曲。实际上，我正在忙着这个呢。”

    目前，亚当斯打算与布拉格爱乐乐团（Prague Philharmonic）合作，为《巫师和机器人》配乐。音乐会结合电脑音乐和管弦乐的风格。他还在制作一款应用，同时还在设计一个与这部漫画小说有关的网站，其中包括大量互动内容。总之，这部新的原创作品看起来前途一片大好。（财富中文网）

    译者：严匡正     

    "Four months ago I was emailed a rendering of Kaku, and now he's real," said Adams, referring to the robot historian from the year 3000 that's a central character in the story. "All that creativity and collaboration used to just be in our heads and now it's come to life." Adams refers to the phenomenon of technology democratizing the creative process: "We call it VAVADA, which is Visual, Audio, Virtual to Actual, Digits to Atoms. It's the power of VAVADA right now in society."

    In addition to action figures, Adams is excited about the video-game potential for this new universe. He previously worked with Microsoft (MSFT) and Ubisoft (UBSFY) on the Kinect Xbox 360 dance music game, The Black Eyed Peas Experience. "The computational power in today's video games are just amazing," he said. "I grew up with a joystick in my hand. I grew up with Atari 2600. To see the level of intelligence and the types of games and the artificial intelligence that's actually in them, that's just amazing how sophisticated games are now and how you can now physically interact with them like you couldn't before."

    Wizards & Robots offers an escape for Adams to relive his childhood, while at the same time helping to shed light on the power of STEM education for kids. He grew up reading traditional comics like Superman, Spider-Man and Batman, and watched cartoons like Transformers,Centurions and Mighty Max. He even appeared as John Wraith in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. "I'm still like a kid," Adams said. "I'm an adult that's been brought up in this society and culture, but my curiosity is still like a kid. That's where this interpretation of merging real science and robotics within a fantastic fantasy world came from."

    The secret to Adams's success in multiple business ventures has been the partners he's teamed up with, he says.

    "It's all the power of your collaboration and your circle of people that you can potentially collaborate with," said Adams. "It's the same with my hardware like Beats headphones or Intel ultrabooks. I'm happy for that to be a part of an extension of my creativity."

    In case it's not completely obvious by this point, Adams is fascinated by technology. He's been involved with organizations like NASA and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) that push technology forward, while promoting the education of science.

    "Computers amplify my ideas and my life," he said. "Being able to spit ideas into a computer to make and compose songs and share them with the world in real-time just fascinated me. It sparked my curiosity to go from writing songs on computers to wanting to learn how to program code on computers. Now I'm taking a computer science course at MIT as a result of my passion for technology."

    That passion has also led to a new project for the musician, although he won't go into much detail at the moment. But it does involve two of his loves: robots and music.

    "There are some things that I'm dabbling in with other folks that I'm creating with that I want to reveal in 2014, when it comes to machines and composing music," he said. "I'm working on that now, actually."

    For now, Adams is going to score the soundtrack for Wizards & Robots with the Prague Philharmonic. The score will fuse computer music with orchestral compositions. He is also working on an app and a hyper-interactive website for the graphic novel. And the future looks bright for this new IP.