Cyborgs
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Hey, wait a sec! This one's real! Well, bits of it, anyway. These "Machine Man" features are about as close to grappling with cyborgs as most predictions got in the 1960s. It wasn't uncommon to find magazine articles and museum exhibits that would lump together prosthetics, heart/lung machines, other medical appliances and imply that once you tack on enough replacement parts onto the human body you've got a new, more powerful organism. Though I suspect that the silicone testicles wouldn't be much of an advance on the original equipment. Personally, I think if you tinker with the human body too much you get something like the motor car that I "drove," for want of a better word, at university. That frightening monstrosity was such a collection of miss-matched spares, duct tape, bailing wire, and prayer that I was getting two miles to the gallon. I'm talking oil, mind. This particular Machine Man included the following bits and pieces: |
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