Welcome to the Special 200th Issue of How It Works

Welcome to the special 200th issue of How It Works. The Six Million Dollar Man was a popular television series about an astronaut who nearly dies in a test flight, only for his broken body to be rebuilt with bionic implants that endow him with enhanced abilities. While this was 1970s science-fiction, we’re within a decade or two of being able to augment humans so that we can run down speeding vehicles and pluck steel bars from their fittings. Human-brain interfaces and exoskeleton suits already ...