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The Modern Art of Human Restoration: Guiding the Kintsugi Mindset
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Trilogy Science Fiction Series
I wrote the original treatment for this series in 1976 inspired by three key events that year:
1. The founding of the first biotechnology company, Genentech.
2. Publication of Isaac Asimov’s book about a humanized robot, The Bicentennial Man.
3. I began working with CMOS solid-state electronics in Silicon Valley at Fairchild Semiconductor.
The Simultaneous Equation
Two college roommates in the 1970’s: one with a technical and science background, and the other with a business background, become founders venturing into the world of Silicon Valley Tech Startups. Their vision: make humans more like computers versus making computers more like humans. The latter invites a possible cataclysmic future.
Networks
ARPANET forms the foundation for this story which takes place from the 1980’s to the early twenty-first century. One founder is now dead and the other is drawn back to his roots in Silicon Valley. The mystery of his disappearance invites many questions about the future of the human species as we know it.
The Last Generation
I am writing the third in the series first because AI and Human Cybernetics are happening now.
Physical and digital robots will likely achieve social presence and augment or replace human companionship. Using Bushido>Ikigai>Kintsugi philosophies, can or should the last generation change the trajectory of computer versus human hierarchy and agency? If not, will humankind survive?