How to Build a Bionic Human
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Bionic Legs, Bionic Heart, Bionyx
Bionic limbs are not attached directly to your skeleton, says Whitaker. We can only replace body parts if they're actually replacing the function of them and i don't think we've got to that point yet. Bionyc is a thing that makes you better hand but bionyx does the opposite - keeps you in bed next to mechanical systems just barely maintaining you. The total artificial heart has been this holy grail for 50 years 'but we haven't quite yet got there', writes Whitaker.
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