“We can rebuild him. We have the technology.” was a well-known phrase in the 1970s. It came from long-running US TV series The Six Million Dollar Man, about fictional astronaut Steve Austin – “a man barely alive” – who was rebuilt after his experimental aircraft crashed. His right arm, both legs and left eye were…

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