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Go “Bionic” — Get “Stronger, Faster, Better” — and Stay Healthier
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As the author of The Bionic Book (BearManor Media, 2007), I profiled Steve Austin — The Six Million Dollar Man, and Jaime Sommers — The Bionic Woman, as portrayed by the iconic Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner on ABC-TV’s classic shows of the 1970s (and both of which now screen on COZI-TV network).
The opening credits for The Six Million Dollar Man included narration provided by Richard “Oscar Goldman” Anderson, who spoke the memorable line, “We can make him stronger, faster, better,” in addressing the cybernetic reconstruction and transformation of Steve Austin into a power-house half-man/half-machine.
Over the years, real-life modern science has been inspired by these wonderful shows, thus proving the potential for classic television and its positive social influence in reality. The advances in legitimate cybernetic and artificial limb reconstruction have been substantial, if not yet achieving the super-strength of Steve and Jaime.
Whether or not we will ever be able to induce super-strength into the equation of real-life bionic science, each of us can certainly do our own part at the very least to maintain the health of our bodies to the best of our ability; to make them stronger, faster, better with the…
