The Last Human Being Is Declared Dead

[Three female protagonists, no male protagonist] In the 23rd century, there are only two countries AB left in the world. Country A's technological strength is so strong that all citizens will be implanted with brain chips at the age of 7 and gain all the knowledge of junior high school within 3 years. However, some people suspect that country A's chips are controlled by technology companies and can manipulate people's consciousness. This became Zhao Guanming's thesis topic: What is the relationship between chips and human consciousness. As a second-year Ph. D. Student in social sciences, Zhao Guanming plans to join the research institute of Country A after graduating from the Institute of Autonomous Machines. In order to complete her academic masterpiece, she will go to country B to conduct field research, where there are still a few primitive humans who can be used as research objects. Zhao Guanming knew that this research was extremely difficult. The situation between AB and AB is turbulent. The chip people and primitive people no longer have a common language, and their personal safety cannot be guaranteed. She has no money and no manpower, and only has a scientific research ideal. Fortunately, she solved the financial problem and arrived at the primitive habitat of country B with her two companions. What she didn't expect was that the destruction of an ethnic group would be triggered by this—— * "We stare at the present in the rearview mirror and move backwards toward the future." ——Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Media" Writing background "Media materiality" believes that media and people also have a subjective status. In traditional concepts, people regard media as tools/vehicles and believe that media are objects that serve themselves; media materiality reverses this concept and believes that "media shapes and even produces people." For example, due to the emergence of mobile phones, we have reduced our reliance on the time when the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and instead arrange our lives by the "cyborg time" of mobile phones. To a certain extent, it can be said that mobile phones have shaped our perception of time. Classic theorists of media materiality include Latour (ANT theory), Graham (OOO theory) and others. Of course, the one that had the greatest impact on me was Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto". This is a must-read chapter on posthumanism, which is also subtitled Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. I don't completely agree with Haraway's criticism of communism, but Haraway provides an idea of ​​​​union with things, which may be a breakthrough for promoting socialism in the future. We can see that with the development of AI, capital and technology continue to collude to promote industrial renewal. The result is that batches of people are thrown out of the system and become a surplus population. Their means of making a living have been declared invalid by AI, and they can no longer be incorporated into the division of labor system. In this situation, humans and AI are caught in a life-and-death competition. But the logic of competition is the logic of capitalism. Such competition cannot fundamentally change the lives of workers. Instead, it strengthens the logic of people desperately "becoming rule makers." This inspires us to start thinking about the question "How is socialism possible in the era of media development?" This is also the core question of this book. Haraway's book was published in the 1980s, and many of today's issues are beyond their imagination, many of which our generation needs to think about. I will continue the theoretical thread of Haraway, Deleuze and others and try to chart a future path. This requires a long time of thinking and accumulation. I have been thinking about it for a while, but I still haven't come up with the result. Therefore, I may have to have a comprehensive grasp of many issues before I start writing. This book is a book for the future. I hope that after writing this book, I will also be able to provide suggestions for governance in the real field. Concept: Technology is a double-edged sword