OK I skimmed through the article. Not much technical content here. The original was published in 2005. Here is what they are doing right now. http://www.wired.com/2014/12/spare-parts/ pretty depressing when compared to what they managed to accomplish 9 years back. Hopefully they are happy.

Looks like it's mostly a marketing push for the movie.

I had tears when I read the entire thing. I thought it was well written

The absolute best article (which I have a photo copy of) is this one [1] about a 14 year old boy at a baseball camp. It is by Ira Berkow of the Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/25/sports/sports-of-the-times...