Korean couple let baby starve to death while caring for virtual child
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Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
"A haunting, subtle, urgent documentary, FIXED questions commonly held
beliefs about disability and normalcy by exploring technologies that
promise to change our bodies and mind forever. Told primarily through
the perspectives of five people with disabilities: a scientist,
journalist, disability justice educator, bionics engineer and
exoskeleton test pilot, FIXED takes a close look at the implications of
emerging human enhancement technologies for the future of humanity.
Through a dynamic mix of verité, dance, archival and interview footage,
FIXED challenges notions of normal, the body and what it means
fundamentally to be human in the 21st century."
