There are many thresholds for god-level civilization, and immortality is definitely one of them.
The story takes place in 2033, autonomous driving has been widely popularized, artificial intelligence is still stagnant at the level of weak artificial intelligence, but biologists have inexplicably completed the eternal pursuit in human history - immortality.
This wrong skill tree has caused a strange scene in the play - in the absence of productive forces, the incarnations of capital must be the first to enjoy and monopolize the fruits of development. In a society where common prosperity has not been achieved, the rich want to refuse "Death together" is really easy.
This ultimate inequality is an important topic in much science fiction. Liu Cixin wrote in a short story "Supporting Humanity" in 2005, that capitalism has developed to the final stage, 100% of the wealth is in the hands of one person, and cheap machine production makes the remaining human beings not even qualified to be exploited, so the end of life is born. The creators gave other people interstellar spaceships and asked them to leave their home planet forever. In the end, the finalists alone possessed minerals, machines, lakes, mountains, seas and the entire home planet, and the rest of the humans became wandering interstellar civilizations.
I was immersed in that short story for a long time, and then I realized that absolute freedom means absolute exploitation, and absolute freedom will lead to absolute inequality. Those who advocate that they are the most free and equal, their speech is really suicide .
In the play, human beings are faced with this absolute inequality. The dead continue to exploit angels with minimum wages in heaven. It is not difficult for them to continue to influence the operation of the real world with their strength. The capitalists finally realized Dreams—eternal exploitation, they don’t care about the huge income of the uploading industry. In the face of eternal exploitation, they are just a drop in the bucket. No matter what consideration, capital will never allow this technology to be shared.
So the male protagonist must die, the male protagonist's neighbors know that he died of murder just by his identity, and the innocent male protagonist falls into self-denial again after recovering the modified memory. I have to say that capital is really cold-blooded and precise.
Uploading consciousness is no longer creative, and it is difficult to have enough amazing settings in the sci-fi part, but I think the social changes shown in the play are still too shallow. Immortality is enough to have an unprecedented impact on the social formation. After all, the inequality of death is the greatest inequality. When this inequality is nakedly displayed in front of the world, it is incomprehensible without change or even revolution.
Of course, mankind's pursuit of immortality has never stopped, and its doubts about immortality have never stopped. Two thousand years ago, an ancient Roman emperor said,
Although you intend to live three thousand years, tens of thousands of years, remember: what anyone loses is no other life, but only the life he is living now; no one lives any other life, but only His life is now lost. The longest and the shortest lives thus become one. While the past was not the same, it is the same now for all. So the loss seems to be a mere moment. For one cannot lose the past or the future - what one does not have, what can one take from him? So you have to keep these two things in mind: one is that all things that come from eternity are like forms and are cyclical and that one sees the same thing in a hundred years or two thousand years or an infinite time, which is very important to He's all one thing; two, the longest-lived and the dying lose the same thing. Because the only thing that can be taken from a person is now. If it is true that one has only the present, then one cannot lose something that one does not possess.
Although immortality is a right that everyone should strive for, its essence is likely to be extremely boring. "Living in the moment" is likely to become the most philosophical sentence in human history. For us, before the arrival of immortality technology, We need to avoid capitalism triumphing in the first place.
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