Comments on: Bullet Points v5 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/10/27/bullet-points-v5/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: wendyg http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/10/27/bullet-points-v5/#comment-3505 wendyg Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:13 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/10/27/bullet-points-v5/#comment-3505 In the past issues of The New YOrker that I read on my flight late last week was one with a piece on a US army team working on improving prosthetic devices, using as a test subject a young woman who lost her left arm in a car accident. Quite apart from the fictional bionic man/woman I think the news makes prosthetic devices sound more successful than they actually are: her device couldn't pick up more than 10 pounds and had a very limited choice of motions. They were working on improving all those characteristics. wg In the past issues of The New YOrker that I read on my flight late last week was one with a piece on a US army team working on improving prosthetic devices, using as a test subject a young woman who lost her left arm in a car accident. Quite apart from the fictional bionic man/woman I think the news makes prosthetic devices sound more successful than they actually are: her device couldn’t pick up more than 10 pounds and had a very limited choice of motions. They were working on improving all those characteristics.

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