Posted on 09/14/2015 11:53:59 AM PDT by Mellonkronos
[I lover science! The one thing I would add is that the tech advances that make these sorts of inventions possible came from the free market. Thats why we can all afford smart phones and computers. Get the government out of medical stuff and these sorts of things could be more widely available.]
Future Transhumanist Tech May Soon Change The Definition Of Disability
By Zoltan Istvan
Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world.
MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, who lost both his legs in a mountain climbing accident, recently said in a TED Talk on disability, A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitation, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.
His words are coming true. Around the world, the deaf hear via cochlear implants, paraplegics walk with exoskeletons and the once limbless have functioning limbs. For example, some amputees have mind-controlled robotic arms that can grab a glass of water with amazing precision. In 15 or 20 years, that bionic arm could very well be better than the natural arm, and people may even electively remove their biological arms in favor of robotic ones. After all, who doesnt want to be able to do a hundred pull ups in a row or lift the front end of a car up to quickly change a flat tire?
The same radical improvements will happen with eyesight. Already, blind people can see some things better than the natural eye with robotic technology made possible by the Argus II. In 15 years time, expect bionic eyes to be electively installed in our eye sockets, as they
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With a 'bionic arm'? You have to be an idiot to believe that one... LOL!
LOL, not until I saw your response to him. Very funny read. Surprise I had never seen that Kurt short. So I thought I would share it so more would know.
I remember when the liberals were arguing in the 90s that it was unfair that “the poor” didn’t have full and immediate access to computers and the internet, and that they would be forever an underclass, blah blah blah, never mind that most all libraries had free access to computers and the internet. It is only because first adopters with money beta test technologies that they are perfected and made available at better prices and good quality for all.
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