Peter Scott-Morgan, who died in June, believed that human life and machine life were destined to merge. When he was diagnosed with A.L.S., he decided to use his experience to test his theories.
In October, 2019, Peter Scott-Morgan announced that he had evolved from Peter 1.0 to Peter 2.0. What that meant in practical terms was that, at that point, he had made enough modifications to his body that he considered himself to be something new entirely—less of a human, more of a cyborg. He wasn’t yet fully robotic, but he was fast approaching it and, as he told an interviewer, there was no technology he “wouldn’t consider.
Scott-Morgan got the first Ph.D. in robotics ever granted by a British university—from Imperial College London—but he liked to say that he got his science education from watching “Doctor Who” and “Star Trek.” His first book, published in 1984, was called “.” He believed that human life and machine life were destined to merge. When he got sick, he decided to use his experience to test his theories.
The progression of A.L.S. proved to be unyielding, even to a human cyborg, which is what Scott-Morgan liked to call himself. In the end, he couldn’t outrace the disease. But he never stopped cheerleading for the process he had undertaken.
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