The Man Who Would Be a Machine

In October, 2019, Peter Scott-Morgan (1958-2022) announced that he had evolved from Peter 1.0 to Peter 2.0. What that meant in practical terms was that, at that point, he had made enough modifications to his body that he considered himself to be something new entirely--less of a human, more of a cyborg. He wasn't yet fully robotic, but he was fast approaching it and, as he told an interviewer, there was no technology he "wouldn't consider." Scott-Morgan, a British scientist with an expertise in robotics and organizational theory, was tall and slim, with a floppy mop of blonde hair and a blindingly bright smile. He skewed full-on optimist; to scroll through his Twitter account is to be showered by exclamations of wonder and delight.