My Jack Mack novels focused on AI and its use from the start (2021), and how my characters' lives fitted around the ubiquitous machine intelligences and robots. It's frightening to watch 'real life' catching up with and maybe surpassing what I was able to imagine.
I think the questions raised are as valid now as in my fictional future universe. Most importantly, can the line between man and machine ever be erased? As incredibly capable as the AIs in my books may be, they remain something other than human.
As for the combining of man and machine, that is a subject I have (wisely, I think) avoided, except for the sort of neural linkage that is required to pilot a jump ship. And that is not permanent. I just might introduce some mention of a pretty much universal condemnation of the concept (as did Herbert in 'Dune'). That, of course, would allow someone to break the rule and open up new plot directions.
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