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I love fitting things into parallel constructions and generational cycles, maybe discount for that.

So those all had ideologies attached, but a big mover was attempts to treat mass war trauma - mutilations and burns in WWI, “battle fatigue” (or was it still “shell shock”?) in WWII, newly survivable amputations in Korea and Vietnam.

Remember the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman? Contemporary mythologizations.

So give it a while for transhumanism and cyborg feminism and all that to bang together and polish into something comprehensible for public consumption, then let all the VA prosthetic money from Iraq II (signature wound an IED tearing out the whole undercarriage) bang into the DARPA money for drones, telepresence, and exoskeletons…

As the opening line of my favorite novel goes, “In five years the penis will be obsolete.”