In the 35 years since Steve Austin sprinted (very slowly) onto our screens, technology has made bionic leaps and bounds. So how much would it cost to create the Six Million Dollar Man in today's money? "STEVE AUSTIN. Astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster." If these words conjure up memories of you running round the playground in slow motion while humming a certain theme tune - Da-da-da-daa - it's odds on you're a child of the 1970s. The 'Six Million Dollar Man' was required viewing during its weekly ITV run between 1974 and 1979. Its plot, based on Martin Caidin's novel 'Cyborg', tapped into the widespread belief that medical science was advancing so rapidly it couldn't be long before our every injury or ailment was fixable by a new breed of doctor-engineer.
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