Minke's black technology

Chapter 418 Surgery Costs
The whole world is actually paying attention to this clinical trial. Human beings have never been so close to immortality technology, and it is also a cyborg electronic technology that can benefit the general public.

In 2045, the prophecy that human beings are about to gain eternal life has risen again, which makes everyone want to work hard to live until that point in time, even the old people who have only half breath left. Their only thought now is to find a way to survive .

Judging from the speed of the development of electronic products, the cost and price of the cyborg body used in the experiment will be halved every few years. After 2045, this cyborg surgery will naturally be incredibly cheap.

These elderly people in their seventies and eighties are very confident that they can live to that moment. After all, there are only a dozen years left before 2045. At that moment, it must be the critical point of Superman’s drastic changes. The old social model will never return, and the new rules Start dominating the world.

The various black technologies developed by the Meow Star Laboratory have far-reaching impacts on the society. The changes in the world are regarded as strange phenomena on the eve of the superhuman upheaval. Therefore, the development of cyborg technology is regarded as a sign of this critical point.

However, some experts and scholars believe that the superhuman upheaval has actually happened, but people are not aware of it when they are in it. Artificial intelligence represented by computer angels is the last invention of mankind, and cyborg technology is only a supplement.

In any case, everyone believes that this critical point will definitely come, and human society will undergo tremendous changes as a result, and even the form of human life will be changed.

"Not only can it be charged while sleeping, but of course it can also be charged when awake, and it also adopts a new wireless charging method, which can be continuously charged just by lying in the dormant cabin..."

In the operation observation room, Zhao Baibing explained to the parents of the little brother of the experimental subject.

"Everything about the cyborg's body is designed for bionic humans. As long as the skin is not broken to expose the internal wiring, you can't see any abnormalities from the outside, even saliva and tears, but the smell may be a little different from real people. After all, cyborg bodies don’t have sweat glands.”

This kind of small problem can be solved by the smell of perfume, which is not a big problem. From the perspective of hygiene, it is much cleaner than real people.

"As for the more idealistic 'personal temperament', it's hard to say. Maybe someone can tell the difference between a cyborg and a human at a glance, but in most cases, it's still possible to confuse the real with the fake!"

Zhao Baibing looked at the little brother in the operating room with the eyes of the artwork. He may have the title of father of cyborg in the future. Even though this technology actually came from the bald boss, the boss is most afraid of trouble. He didn't care about this reputation at all, so he had no choice but to be disrespectful.

The parents of the little experimental subject didn't care too much about this. What they wanted to know was the cost. They had to know that the cyborg body was not a human body, and needed regular maintenance just like the computer angel.

"You don't have to worry about this. Our Meow Star Group will provide 200 years of free maintenance services. Even if the cyborg body is destroyed, we can even replace the body for free, but there is a limit of ten times." Zhao Baibing explained.

The time limit and the number of times limit are to prevent the little brother of the experimental body from taking the initiative to die, otherwise the Meow Star Group can promise unlimited free service terms, but such loopholes are too big.

Speaking of these things, the little brother in the operating room below has completed the system settings, and can walk freely like ordinary people. The basic settings stop here, and the remaining more in-depth settings need further use. Done, but such a cyborg body is good enough for everyday life.

"We should go down and meet with my little brother." Li Maoye said to the others.

Of course, not everyone will meet with the younger brother. Only a part of the people in the observation room can go down, mainly the laboratory staff, the younger brother's parents and reporters, in addition to several domestic experts and scholars.

They all wanted to observe the little brother at a close distance and carefully study this crystallization of human cyborg technology. As early as when the operation was successful, the people present had already applauded and cheered, celebrating the milestone success of cyborg technology.

"This can be regarded as solving most human diseases from the root? Not only ALS, but even aging can resist one or two!" The media reporter said to the colleagues around him.

"Isn't it? This cyborg technology is very effective against many deadly diseases. If I am about to die, I will definitely change my machine body. Then what problems can't be cured?" The reporter colleague replied.

Someone next to him added: "I'm afraid there are still some. For example, there is no cure for brain diseases. Although biochips can treat some brain diseases, they are helpless for particularly serious diseases."

It means that if human beings are mentally disabled, it is the most difficult disease to treat.

Theoretically, if the Meow Star Laboratory can treat even brain damage, then basically electronic brain technology has also been realized.

However, the scientific community still has serious doubts about this. After all, this is more ethically challenging than gimmicks such as head replacement surgery. No one can determine how much brain tissue a person needs to be considered a human being. The mainstream view of the Internet cannot replace ordinary World morality and ethics.

Even the cyborgization surgery of the bald eagle brother cannot win the support of everyone. For example, many organizations in his country openly oppose this surgery, and believe that only the brain of a person is original, while the whole If the body has been replaced, then he should not belong to human beings.

This is not a few non-governmental organizations protesting, and even members of the Bald Eagle government publicly opposed it. They usually promote it in the name of religion, and then use legal loopholes to restrict the return of the cyborgized brother, because legally speaking, He no longer exists.

Of course, this kind of thing can only be debated endlessly in Western countries. The rabbits who oppose the East agree that as long as the brain is still their own, isn't this the same person as before?

This is only limited to the case where the brain is not electronic. If even the protein brain is replaced with an electronic brain, then many people in the rabbit may have doubts about it.

However, the Meow Star Laboratory has not yet reached this point. It is estimated that before the technology is improved, flower growers will debate in various ways in the country, and then let everyone reach a consensus before the General Assembly passes the relevant cyborg bill.

As for Western countries wanting to pass this psychological barrier, I am afraid that the Pope has to explain the definition of human beings, and then other people may accept the current cyborg technology.

But people of insight are all cheering, because this not only means that most of the diseases can be cured, but even the aging of the body can be effectively resisted. After all, the most terrible thing about time is the erosion of time, and no matter how great a person is, he has no choice but to go to grave.

For human beings, the life of less than [-] days is too short, and most people only have about [-] days. Therefore, even if cyborgization may also be the end of life, there are still many people who are willing to try.

Besides, the cyborgized person is still not himself. This kind of philosophical question is useless to ordinary people. Only those who are idle will seriously think about this question.

They may speak against cyborgization, but when it is their turn to make a choice, I am afraid that most people will choose to continue to survive, no matter whether it is humans or other monsters that are left in the end.

Even so, the influence of the cyborg technology of Meow Star Group is too great, and it still causes headaches and troubles for ethicists, jurists and medical circles in many countries.

Seeing that the complete cyborgization technology is about to come to reality, they have to solve the legislative problems in advance before the Meow Star Technology can turn the human brain into an electronic brain.

But all of this is not worth paying attention to for the Meow Star Lab. They only need to find a way to develop the technology, and then work hard to improve the development of the technology so that everyone can enjoy the convenience brought by this technology.

As the only experimental subject, the little brother of the experimental subject must of course cooperate with the research as much as possible. These things were all discussed during the recruitment, and he also signed a contract with hundreds of pages.

What's more, the little brother can't go back to China yet, because the relevant departments of Bald Eagle don't dare to let him enter the customs. The reason is very simple, just because they can't confirm whether the cyborgized little brother still has legal citizenship.

In addition, they are also worried that there is a back door on the cyborg body. As long as a certain time, the cat or rabbit can remotely control the cyborg brother to do things.

"It's like shit in my heart, everything I see is shit!" Zhou Lin scolded with a smile.

However, Li Maoye didn't care about it. Whether the experimental subject can return to China has nothing to do with him. If he can only stay in the flower planter's territory in the end, it will be very convenient for the cyborg research in the laboratory. At least he wants to observe the experiment Once the body gets the data, they don't need to call someone over to check it.

"By the way, after our first clinical trial was successful, many patients with ALS wanted to live a normal life through this operation." Zhou Lin said.

"That's easy to do. Let them apply for clinical trial volunteers first. After the laboratory has sorted out the surgical data, we will continue with the new clinical trial surgery." Li Maoye replied.

Zhou Lin smiled and said: "There are too many applicants this time, so many people are willing to pay for the cyborg surgery. After all, tens of thousands of people compete for a few places, and the chance of winning is too low. !"

When it comes to the cost of cyborg surgery, the Meow Star Group announced that cyborg surgery requires 6000 million yuan. Now the currency of the rabbit family is worth a lot, almost equal to the dollar, so this expense is not small, not many people can afford it.

"The operation fee is so expensive?" Li Maoye looked at Zhou Lin next to him, frowned and asked, "I don't care how foreign countries charge, but do people in my own country also charge so much?"

Zhou Lin quickly shook his head and said, "Of course not! According to the regulations, the state will reimburse you!"

Foreign patients who want to undergo surgery, unless they have high insurance coverage, most of them cannot do it immediately, unless they can wait for the price to drop in a few years before doing it.

"Isn't your false report too exaggerated?"

Even if Li Maoye did not get the cyborg cost list, he can roughly calculate that the actual cost should be around 300 million. If it enters the stage of industrial mass production, the cost price can be reduced to around 50, or even lower. If the production line is rolled out.

"Aren't I going to abide by the agreement?" Zhou Lin said nonchalantly: "Isn't it up to us to decide the cost? It's not bad if I didn't push the price to hundreds of millions!"

Li Maoye has no objection to this. Anyway, Rabbit can reimburse 90% of the surgical expenses, and then there is a public welfare fund under the Meow Star Group that can apply. Apply for a fee.

Some can be reduced here, and part of it can be reimbursed there. In the end, it is equivalent to doing cyborg surgery for free.

As for the needs of foreign people, we can only let them wait for a few more years. If you can’t wait, you can apply for clinical trial volunteers, or simply rich people can also do surgery at their own expense. Anyway, the channel is still open, and it is not completely blocked. die.

In fact, if you think about it seriously, tens of millions of surgical expenses are really not that much. The cyborg technology involved in it, if you take out one or two at random, which one is not hundreds of millions or billions of research and development costs?
Only the Meow Star Laboratory is in a special situation. It can completely ignore the research and development costs, and can directly obtain mature product technology, saving an unknown amount of trillions of expenses in the middle, and the figures in it cannot be calculated at all.

It is also because of this that the rabbits of the flower growers will happily promote the black technology of cats. Even if most of them are seven wound punches that hurt others and themselves, in fact, the research and development expenses earned on the invisible book are so high went!

In the end, the little brother of the experimental subject really failed to go back, and was even revoked his identity certificate by the Bald Eagle government. He has since lost his human qualifications. Even though he is still alive in a physical sense, he is no different from a dead person legally.

In fact, only some of them are opposed to my brother’s return to China, but these people’s influence is too great, so that other people of insight can’t do it if they want him to come back. After all, this cyborg body is a black technology product of cats. , the actual value is much greater than the selling price.

These people want to invite the little brother to the experimental base of the government department, and then let the experts carefully study the cyborg technology on him, so as to improve the level of the Bald Eagle's own mechanical warrior.

But it’s also good for my little brother not to go back. Meow Star Group helped him apply for a green card from a flower grower, and then lived there for a long time as an experimental subject. In his spare time, he was allowed to study by other domestic scientific research institutions, and he could also get a subsidy. Then live a fulfilling life leisurely and leisurely.

To my surprise, he is very famous in Rabbit, and he has also won many advertising contracts...

(End of this chapter)