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Supermensch

20 mins | Mar 18, 2020
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Why do we believe that we become more human through technology? Comic-book superheroes like Superman and Batman, for example, were products of eugenic speculation. History professor and author Iwan Rhys Morus explores in Aeon magazine why these could be potentially understood as the shape of "tech" things to come.

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