AI Dominates the Screen

In the fall of 2025, Lu Yiming was laid off. What replaced him was not a person, but a set of AI. Forty-three years old, I can't write code, I don't understand chips, I don't know what "computing power" is. All he could do was stand on the balcony every day and count the seven cracks in the ceiling. His wife took out an online loan without telling him. My daughter is studying accounting and is waiting to be optimized by AI. A classmate from my hometown drew a curve in the laboratory that no one could understand. In the Xinjiang Gobi Desert, someone stored the sun in a molten salt tank and said, "This is tomorrow's electricity." In the desert of Dubai, a female engineer drew a bridge pier on the welding point and asked him if he was willing to ferry others. My father was seventy-four years old and posted a job recruitment notice on the community bulletin board. He didn't know that these things scattered all over the world would eventually cross an invisible line - from the half spoonful of rock sugar on the dining table, to the computing satellite in orbit, to the stent in the old man's blood vessel that would automatically disappear in two years. When AI can decide everything for you, can you still say "I think" for yourself? This is the story of a man who spent ten years putting the pieces back together after being thrown off the rails of the times. The cracks are still there, but so is the light.