![]() I love my prosthetic hip joint so much that I’ll confess, I daydream about having all my other problematic parts replaced. The short section where they had the creature talk, probably using text-to-speech, was not as funny as they seemed to think it was. The central idea of building a man from bionic parts - would it have some sort of life? - is quite silly, though effective for showing just how many parts of the human body can be replaced by machines. On the other hand, the show overuses the concept of Frankenstein’s monster. He doesn’t answer them, but at least he raises them. “Normal bodies are boring.” And, the film does bring in someone to be the voice of ethics, to ask questions about human life extension, whether it’s ok if only the rich can afford bionics, and what we will do when people want to remove undamaged parts to upgrade to bionics. A scientist making bionic ankles reveals that he has two bionic legs and claims he wouldn’t want real ones if a wish could grant them. His reaction when he tries a new prototype is fantastic. The results aren’t completely successful, but as a mainstream introduction into what’s possible in bionics now and coming in the near future, it’s not bad. It’s a strange Smithsonian Channel documentary from 2013: a group of scientists gathered state-of-the art bionic parts and assembled them into a “man”. Yesterday I watched The Incredible Bionic Man on Netflix.
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