Cyborg, meaning a human-machine hybrid, often appears in science fiction movies and belongs to the superhuman existence.
It wasn't until 2019 that the character stepped out of the screen and the first true "cyborg" of humanity was born. "Plug-in brain" + "mechanical flesh", belonging to the 64-year-old British scientist Peter Scott-Morgan.
One. Experiment with the "body" to create the real Cyborg
Peter is a roboticist, PhD at the British Polytechnic, medalist, and touring speaker, and with many achievements, he has achieved wealth freedom and the value of life early. Life winners such as him were diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in November 2017 and were judged to live no more than 2 years.
This disease is commonly known as "frostbite", after rapid muscle atrophy, the ability to walk, eat, breathe, excrete and other abilities are constantly lost, and eventually to decay. Physicist Hawking was also tormented by it.
(Note: Peter when he was young)
But Peter was very calm about this, and after going through a large number of materials, he found a loophole: the main cause of death of alzheimer's patients was hunger or suffocation, and cutting-edge mechanical equipment instead of controlling atrophied muscles could solve the above problems.
Using the thinking of an engineer, he envisioned a four-fold "pipeline modification technology", one input and three outputs, for solving the problem of eating and excretion. First insert a tube in the stomach for food input; insert two tubes in the bladder and colon to export excrement; make an upper stoma in the trachea to help breathe.
But things were far less simple than Peter thought, and after solving the three key problems of eating, excretion, and breathing, a new problem was in front of him.
Two. Borrowing FROM AI, Peter 2.0 turned out
Infections caused by sputum from breathing into the lungs are another common cause of death, and laryngectomy is by far the best solution, with the side effect of no longer being able to speak. So he wanted to learn from Hawking, build a Peter 2.0, and let AI "speak for himself."
He began to stay in the studio to record his voice, working through AI to produce synthesized sounds similar to his own. After a year of constant rework and redoing, he finally got a satisfactory voice.
When he wants to speak now, he only needs to look at the soft keyboard on the wheelchair, and the camera will accurately track his eyeballs and type the corresponding letters. The AI system generates sound. AI also generated a combination of a "avatar", "voice" and "avatar" that looked like Peter, and Peter 2.0 was officially born.
He always firmly believed that as long as human beings are smart enough and bold enough, technology can solve the problems in the universe. Even the aging problem, once called "scientific backwater", is constantly being overcome.
In the past, people meekly accepted the fact of getting older, just as in the past people thought that it was a natural phenomenon for women to die during childbirth. Until the good news came from the Harvard laboratory, the "Palovi pro" substance achieved a certain degree of aging reversal by maintaining telomere length and increasing mitochondria. Subjects aged 60 in the experiment, after 3 months of oral intervention of the substance "Palovir pro", a number of key indicators of the body tended to be younger, which was equivalent to 20 years younger at the telomere level.
Based on the above experimental data, Li Ka-shing and others have also entered the game to maintain a better physical condition. Under the endorsement of many parties, after the above supplements entered the mainland Jingdong and other channels, they were regarded as a round of cutting-edge technology. This may be the power of science and technology, and it is impossible to gradually become possible under the vicissitudes of the sea.
Three. "I was so happy, it was as if I had lived again"
Five years have passed since 2017, and Peter's body has stopped working for a long time. But with the help of high-tech means, he is still talking to people and passing on his ideas.
In 2020, he also published his autobiography Peter 2.0, the first 3/4 of which he completed, and the last 1/4 of which was completed with peter 2.0. He also spends 60 hours a week preparing for presentations, giving interviews, and handling business.
Talking about the current situation, he said that he was very happy, happy, satisfied, and even felt that he had grown up again when he was young. This is inseparable from the help of science and technology, "Palovi pro" led by the field of anti-aging, but also frequent good news, Israeli scientists with the help of "O2ARK" hyperbaric oxygen chamber, so that the 60-year-old body of the elderly cells reduced by about 37%, the paper published in the journal Aging.
Interestingly, when working with many technology companies around the world to change lives with Ding Jian technology, he mentioned that China may make the greatest contribution in the field of artificial intelligence. And he may have been born a "pioneer" of technology.
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