a place where people come to exchange their screens for a good old—fashioned book. but the pandemic has forced even the most conventional to adapt, and this appearance has gone beyond digital and has proved no gimmick. i am a transitioning cyborg. this is peter scott—morgan, who has motor neurone disease, also known as als. but he's also a doctor of robotics and he calls himself the world's first human cyborg. peter was diagnosed with als in 2015 and that was when he decided to use technology to overcome the extreme difficulty that he knew that he would face. he said that he chose to thrive rather than die. there have been two sides to his transformation — the physical and the virtual — and in a minute, stephen fry will talk to one side about the other.