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Monstrum
Are Cyborgs Really Monsters?
Season 5
Episode 4
Advances in technology are always met with some degree of technophobia – and villainization. Anxieties about humans being replaced by machines immediately emerged alongside voices praising their life-enhancing benefits. What is it about the blending of man and machine that scares us – but also thrills us?
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