Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Allumination
• VHS Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• ASIN: 1575235552
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,164 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Will we or our children live in sleek designer bodies with chrome eyeballs? Check out Future Body, from the Discovery Channel's Science of the Impossible series, and decide for yourself. Through snazzy high-tech graphics and interviews with physicians, roboticists, and "extropians," the producers show that many of the advantages we take for granted today--artificial hips, pacemakers, cosmetic plastic surgery, transplantation, and such--would have seemed miraculous 100 years ago but are merely setting the stage for new developments to come. You'll see a surgeon implanting a microchip into the eye of a blind woman in the hopes of giving her rudimentary sight and hear from a passionate advocate for moving our consciousness fully into a technological shell. Wildly entertaining and thought provoking, Future Body will make you think twice the next time you stub your toe. --Rob Lightner