Reality is getting closer

“I used to think the world’s obsession with technology was merely pathetic,” the protagonist says in the opening line of The Girl from Wudang.

And suddenly, here we are.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink finally got its FDA approval to test their brain implants on human beings and the Internet is having a field day. There have been other companies ahead in the line, but his is… his. So everything is more high profile, more controversial and much, much noisier.

But not all is controversy and memes in this new world. Just yesterday, The New York Times also reported on an experiment using AI and Neural Bridges to allow a paraplegic man to walk, by thinking about walking, the difference being that instead ob these thoughts influencing his muscles, they would now operate an exoskeleton.

The second half of 2023 will be marked by a combination of Artificial Intelligence and Neural bridges stories in the press, and I wish the book was being launched right now.

Imagine that the three main characters in the story are: a neuroscientist trying to balance our chances against AI, by using brain connections; a computer scientist trying to expedite his research before government regulation reaches his work; and a badass Chinese female mma fighter, who couldn’t care less about the development of technology, but has enough health incentives to give it a try.

It took me 8 years to get this story researched, written, polished and published. And it’s coming out on October 17, right in the middle of all this. 😳 Thankfully, there are no eccentric billionaires in the plot, and the current UFC champ Zhang Weili has no signs of suicidal headaches like Yinyin in the book, otherwise I could be accused of plagiarizing reality.

Phew!