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. That’s 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 doesn’t 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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We are so screwed.
I’m an A-10
Still waiting on the DNI (Direct neural interface) from ShadowRun.
Okay. You will be able do a job you could not do before so they cut your disability check, but then give the job to a robot that does it for free.
You knower it’s good when it starts out with “I lover science”
Why, because technology is being adapted to help the disabled? WTF?
The problem with our society is that they want everything on the market NOW. If medical care is a right, then EVERYONE should be able to have these devices IMMEDIATELY regardless of cost. The way the market works, innovation creates expensive products that eventually come down in price to the point where anyone can afford them, but that may take anywhere from two years to a decade. But at that point, there is something new and fancy that everyone wants. The article is right that its like cell phones. You can get an early generation iPhone or Samsung Galaxy from practically nothing. Anyone can afford one. But, of course, no one wants one. They want the $700 model.
I try to be an A-10 but so far all I can manage is the “BRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPP!” sound.
You need to build everything around your main gun.
You will be able do a job you could not do before so they cut your disability check, but then give the job to a robot that does it for free.
I’ll just get a disabled robot.
My robot can only do half of it’s rated capacity.
Where is my check?
Because Harrison Bergeron.
Keep the disabled, disabled. If you allow them to rise up, they will take over. PUSH THEM BACK INTO THEIR WHEELCHAIRS.
Argus 2 is not better than natural eyesight. It is dependent on functioning retinal cells. If you don’t have any, it will not function. Whatever retinal cells still function will be less then what exists in a healthy human eye.
Is an A10 with it 30mm gun removed postopt trangender?
Not funny.
Precisely why I wrote it.
I live to offend.
Someone else got it. :)
Paging Major Motoko Kusanagi. whichever line you wish to hack..
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