Get the latest tech news
2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love
“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the rules but him?” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
Throughout his life he had taken his uncle’s help when offered, from Eton to the present, so if the elder James Mohammad wanted to call the younger “Jimmy,” he had that right, just as he had the right to summon his nephew to the capital, the dusty, landlocked metropolis in the geographic center of the country that held no charm for him. Mohammad found his uncle at a table surrounded by a handful of men his age who were laughing a little too hard at some joke he had told, their heads thrown back with their mouths wide open as if inviting all the world to count their gold fillings. Given Michi’s own scientific background, she could understand the nature of B.T.’s work with little difficulty: the power of mRNA-based vaccines; the promise of remote gene editing; the blurring of the borders between molecular and nano-technological enhancements; how these advances might be hurtling humanity toward the Singularity.
Or read this on Wired
