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Book Review
Transhumanism and the Cult of ‘Better, Faster, Stronger’
Why the church should resist technologies that aim to liberate us from ordinary, embodied life.
Andy Crouch
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Amid the pop-culture detritus of my childhood, one unforgettable fragment is the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
For the children of the 1970s, Steve Austin (played by Lee Majors) was
our first cyborg, fitted with a “bionic” eye and limbs after a nearly
fatal accident. Every episode began by retelling his origin story, as a
voiceover intoned: “We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can
make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.”
Those opening lines ...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Transhumanism and the Cult of ‘Better, Faster, Stronger’
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