The Bionic Factor One of the first public mentioning’s of bionic engineering can be credited to the Marvel™ Universe, with the Iron Man comics. In the comics, Tony Stark is forced to integrate a micro-magnetic field into the tissue and muscle layers around his heart. This leads to the comics transforming his bionic technology that is keeping him alive into something that Stark builds another empire around (Fichera). Iron Man was not the only media source delving into the idea of the impossible. In the nineteen-seventies creators of the hit television show; Six Million Dollar Man, began to play with the idea of a bionic eye, arm, and legs. Astronaut Steven Austin was the man of the minute when his spaceship crashed, leaving most of his limbs
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Of course, the technology for successful bionic integration was not unveiled for a few years after the book was written, but Perkowitz was not focusing on the bionics of it. Instead, he he chose to focus on the history that surrounded it and the human anatomy that the bionics would be inserted into. Perkowitz goes as far back as to Greek Mythology to talk about Hephaestus, the lame god of fire and how he created wings to assist him in his work (19). Perkowitz also tells that in the 1818 book Frankenstein, the creator of the monster used a form of bionics in order to assemble different parts of bits and pieces from various humans and animals in order to bring life to his creation (17). Perkowitz then delves into the modern human itself, and why the future of bionics would work if carried out exactly right (85-87). He hints that the human body has been preparing for the integration of technology for centuries, even before the mere concept of the technology was fathomed (88-89). Perkowitz asserts that while there is five main senses, there are many, many more that are unnamed and unrecognized because the human body has not just evolved yet in order to use them (147-158). Perkowitz’ book has began to pave a way for humanity to take one step further in our
Of course, the technology for successful bionic integration was not unveiled for a few years after the book was written, but Perkowitz was not focusing on the bionics of it. Instead, he he chose to focus on the history that surrounded it and the human anatomy that the bionics would be inserted into. Perkowitz goes as far back as to Greek Mythology to talk about Hephaestus, the lame god of fire and how he created wings to assist him in his work (19). Perkowitz also tells that in the 1818 book Frankenstein, the creator of the monster used a form of bionics in order to assemble different parts of bits and pieces from various humans and animals in order to bring life to his creation (17). Perkowitz then delves into the modern human itself, and why the future of bionics would work if carried out exactly right (85-87). He hints that the human body has been preparing for the integration of technology for centuries, even before the mere concept of the technology was fathomed (88-89). Perkowitz asserts that while there is five main senses, there are many, many more that are unnamed and unrecognized because the human body has not just evolved yet in order to use them (147-158). Perkowitz’ book has began to pave a way for humanity to take one step further in our