We Will End Disability by Becoming Cyborgs
From: IEEE Spectrum - 05/27/2014
By: Eliza Strickland

Neural interfaces and prosthetics will do away with biology's failings

Today, three decades after a mountain climbing accident in which he lost his
legs to frostbite, Hugh Herr walks on bionic limbs of his own creation. As
director of the biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, Herr developed
advanced prosthetics that he uses to walk, run, and even rock climb. And now,
as he works with his colleagues to establish MIT's new Center for Extreme
Bionics, Herr is setting out not just to reinvent himself but the whole of
society. "Fifty years out, I think we will have largely eliminated
disability," he declares, adding that he's referring not just to physical
disabilities but to many emotional and intellectual infirmities as well. 

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