cybernetics

As a student, Harbisson had met Plymouth University cybernetics expert Adam Montandon, who enabled him to "hear" colour using headphones, a webcam and laptop - transforming light waves into sounds.

"Cybernetics will happen - it is happening," she says.

The milestone has spurred difficult retrospectives, commemorations and reexaminations of the ensuing decades of violent dictatorial rule, yet something else died that day too: A utopian experiment to use cutting-edge technology and the study of cybernetics to equitably — and efficiently — manage the nation’s entire economy.

Getting hit by the sea train is what leads Franky to augment himself with cybernetics in an attempt to put himself back together, so when he goes up against the train in this moment, it’s without Strong Right, Weapons Left, or any of his other special attacks we see over the years — it’s just a teenager facing off against impossible odds to try and do right by the mentor who did right by him.

Today’s science fiction is chock-full of ideas that are not yet fully realized, such as interstellar exploration, time travel, alien communication, teleportation, and cybernetics.