The Brief

by Fernando Viveros

Overview

Is it worth living for more than a hundred years? Will artificial intelligence be used to prolong human life and aspire to immortality? - Today, artificial intelligence and new technologies are rapidly changing our daily lives, how we relate to each other, and our rituals, symbols, and expectations. It has provoked great interest and a cross-impact of societal enthusiasm and fear. - With exceptional clarity and lucidity, the novel THE BRIEF, with suspense, tension, and unexpected twists and turns, addresses a crucial and borderline concern that many readers question: the tantalizing pretension of using artificial intelligence and biotechnology to prolong human life and delay the arrival of death as long as possible. It invites the reader to reflect on a profound and defining theme of human beings: their finitude. - The plot deals with the emotional journey of the protagonist, Pedro Romero. His psychological arc through the experience of living as a refugee with his parents on Icaria, a Greek island, during the Tragic Decade and the Absurd War; the three decades of research on how to delay cellular aging; the death of his wife for having applied the first version of his Youth Injection; his parents' trip to Antarctica; his ambition to have the formula for eternal youth to win the Vanguard Award in Biomedicine; the commercial dispute of the regional blocks to control his discovery; the harassment and accusations of corruption and murder of his wife by prosecutor Leo Soto; the trial and sentence of a robotic judge with artificial intelligence; the rejection of his daughter; the platonic love of his assistant Lila; his seclusion and the gradual acceptance that the Youth Injection he discovered is limited because there are a thousand ways to die and that life is finally beautiful, but fleeting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798892040907
Publisher:	Barker Publishing LLC
Publication date:	09/18/2023
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Fernando Viveros, (Mexico City, 1960). Permanent reader and traveler. Analyst of hypermodern life. Doctor in literary creation, cultural promoter, music lover, and percussionist; Doctor in Law, diplomat, educator, rural teacher in Africa and India; traveler, cabin boy. Within an avant-garde literary project, he writes a pentalogy of novels about hypermodern life that deals with human passions, emotions and contrasts in themes that link the future with the present of hypermodern life: genetic programming, technological implantation in the human body to improve performance, the loss of human freedom by the hypervigilance of algorithms on the internet and social networks, the dilemmas of space colonization and the ambition of extending human life expectancy. He has published the novels Candidez (Naïveté), Y seguiremos siendo nosotros (And we will continue to be us), Resistiremos (We will hold on), and SOMOS (WE ARE). His works have been translated into English and Italian. He has presented them, with great acceptance from readers, at the International Book Fairs in Madrid, Guadalajara, Bogotá, Havana, Guatemala, Panama, Mexico City's Zócalo, Palace of Mines, Monterrey, Chihuahua; in the House of Mexico in Spain in Madrid, Spain, in the Cultural Center of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, in the Public Library of Medellín, in the bookstore of the Fondo de Cultura Economica in the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cultural Center in Bogotá and multiple bookstores and reading groups in Mexico City.