In Shanghai in 2038, flying at low altitude between skyscrapers, brain-computer interface (NL) technology tears apart the rules of human survival.
Risk control specialist Wang Long. He rejects AI quantitative reports and firmly believes in the temperature of the human brain. The old sensor bracelet on his wrist hides the remaining warmth of his seven-year love affair with surgeon Lily. But when Lily took the risk and accessed the underground cracked version of the NL chip in order to get promoted and buy a house for two people in Shanghai, the balance of love and humanity suddenly tilted. The chip turned Lily into a "super doctor". Her consciousness was eaten away by the code of intelligent brain technology, and she changed from a girl who longed for stability to a new human being awakened in the "Ghost Project"; Wang Long stood on the opposite side, between dark alleys and high-rise buildings, becoming a resister to protect the "original person".
The spiers of the Intelligent Brain Headquarters pierce the night sky, and in the hum of flying is the ultimate game of civilization and technology. When Lily jumped into the Huangpu River and turned into a ghost in the torrent of data, Wang Long understood: This war on "advancement" has never been a duel between chips and flesh, but a desperate struggle between love and alienation.
This is the opening chapter of "Four Future Clans". The chip of the brain race is burning under the skull, the genes of the superhuman race are awakening in the blood, the gears of the machine race are turning in the body, and the perseverance of the human race is growing on the ruins. In the future, there will be no barriers of ethnicity and class, only a new order in which the four races will be separated - and the reshuffle of this order has already been foreshadowed at the moment a chip is embedded in the back of the brain.
Humanity, where should we go?
Reader comments
From the beginning, it felt very realistic and yet very sci-fi.
From the beginning, it felt very realistic and yet very sci-fi.