The impact of the coming medical technologies for children 2010-Jul-04 at 00:55 PDT
Posted by Scott Arbeit in Blog.Tags: biotechnology, children, deafness
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Here’s a 0:50 clip of an 8-month-old deaf baby reacting to having his cochlear implants turned on for the first time, and hearing his mother’s voice:
Cool, right? Imagine every childhood disease, and every form of birth defect, we have in today’s world. And imagine that all of them – all of them – are gone in 25-30 years. Cancer, diabetes, leukemia, deafness, blindness… you name it, it’ll be easily curable. That’s the power of the nanotechnology and related biotechnology that’s coming.
P.S. Yes, yes, I know, it’s “differently-abled.” Whatever. Either way, it won’t be around anymore.
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don’t see the video – can you post a URL? thanks.
It’s showing up for me in Firefox and IE… weird. Anyway, the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzTt1VnHRM&feature=player_embedded.