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Could we become cold, ruthless Cybermen?
BBC Science Focus
|October 2022
We assess the likelihood of humanity turning into cyborgs, like Doctor Who's infamous foe
When they were first created in the 1960s, Doctor Who's Cybermen were a vision of a nightmare future, where humanity has become more machine than flesh. But as time goes by, and more advances are made in bionics and neural implants, this vision doesn't seem so far-fetched. As the Cybermen return for Doctor Who's Centenary Special, Timothy Constandinou, professor of bioelectronics at Imperial College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute, is cautious about us being upgraded to a race of cyborgs.
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