Text/Shu Nian
Do you know the "Human Cyborg"? Not Resident Evil, not Terminator, not Westworld, not these hi-nabis about the future world, but the reality of our lives, a man transforming his flesh and blood into a robot equipped with artificial intelligence, he is the first human cyborg in human history, that is, Peter 2.0.
Peter's story begins in his journey after retirement at the age of 40, he and his husband Francis one day felt that the rest of their lives could be spent with each other, not work to earn money, so the two began a global journey, if it were not for the sudden appearance of motor neurone disease, these two people would probably become the kind of lovers you can see everywhere on the side of the road, leaving their own figure in all corners of the world, however, this disease quickly destroyed Peter's body, in the visible future, He will lose control of his body and will gradually become paralyzed until he dies.
Such a life is a tragedy wherever it is placed, but Peter did not give up lightly, he has a master's degree from Imperial College, he is also a roboticist himself, so he first thought, if my muscles and motor nerves are not enough to support my life, then let the machine replace my movement, and complete the most basic motor needs of life. For Peter, this is the "right to thrive" for people with motor neuronism.
It is true that although we have sympathy for the patients or disabled people around us, when this kind of thing happens to someone we know, we often find it difficult to accept, or even avoid, Peter's friends also present two extremes, one will find it difficult to face him and his illness, and the other will choose to accompany him to create the "rebel alliance". The road was destined to be full of bumps, but Peter and Francis persevered with each other's support and truly armed themselves with knowledge, giving themselves more and longer opportunities to live.
Our alliance of rebels is bound to grow stronger and stronger, and eventually break the existing rules, revolutionize the world, and push the direction of artificial intelligence from independent artificial intelligence to human-machine cooperation.
That's what Peter is going to do, to bring AI together with people, to really make AI work, because "in the UK and around the world, there are a lot of patients like him who are dying because of people's attitudes towards motor neurone disease." Not because there is no means of sustaining life, but because they are allowed to die, or told to die. Countless people have given up or been abandoned, but Peter has never succumbed to fate, even with the "Triple Stoma", "Speech Synthesis" or "Robotic Arm" projects, these are all new possibilities for the future of mankind.
In the face of motor neuron disease, what we see in this book is no longer despair, no longer a farewell, or even a calm acceptance or enjoyment of life, Peter showed a strong desire to survive throughout the process, even if he knew that it might be a waste of time, but people always have to make resolute changes to their lives. When you first read this book, you may think that Peter's story is made of money, but at the end of the reading, we may believe that this is the future of everyone who may suffer from such an illness.