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October 17, 2005

The Eschatologist: Exchange Rate

It started back in the day with simple prosthetics; a new arm here, a replacement leg there. Then the artificial heart. Lungs, and then brain. Biochems that were certainly human in appearance, but carried a melancholy in their eyes (when they were real) that slapped you across the face. There was something less than a person in there, they'd strayed too far.

Harvesting organs was a thing of the past. Barbaric, even. Never would it be assumed that they could replace the original. The copies were better. Manufactured with rigid quality controls.

We can rebuild them. We have the technology.

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