The irony of poking fun at this 1956 piece of retrofuturism is the proliferation of heinous cosmetic surgery that media culture now embraces.

The article that accompanies this ambitious recreation of human form poses compelling questions such as

“Why is it necessary to have individual ribs? Why can’t man’s internal organs be protected with a device resembling a giant clamshell which can be opened easily for surgical purposes, be flexible enough to permit breathing and which would protect the vital organs a good deal better than the present lattice-work arrangement?”

I must give them credit for attempting to place function over form. Current cosmetic procedures just suck, pull, tighten, snip, inject, laser, poison, and fill everything with plastic bubbles. Function of the human body is rarely improved, despite a somewhat android appearance that should…by all means…indicate superpowers.