This episode of the Outer Limits is about a scientist and a machine that was created to show what man will look like in the future. The beginning shows that the scientist who invented this machine is a professor of genetics. I wondered, what kinds of things/experiments does the man do? In the lab, the scientist shows a man a monkey that is very smart and can do many things that a normal monkey cannot do. The monkey was “made that way” by the scientist. This tells me that the monkey was genetically altered in some way. This is a great example of mad scientists.
Later in the episode, the scientist asks the man if he will help test an experiment. He shows the man the machine and explains that it will evolve man to what man will look like in the future. A few questions that I had were, what will the results of the test look like, and will it be possible to reverse the effects, or will the man stay as man’s evolved form? After the test, the man did not look completely different, but many characteristics were changed. His head was larger, he was taller, had a different voice, a wider field of vision, the ability to read people’s minds, and a sixth finger on one hand. I think that this additional dexterity is the strangest and most mysterious effect of the machine. Will man really have a sixth finger in the future? What is the reason for this additional dexterity, and how may it affect life of future humans?
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