DIS 300 is a course that I'm in that is about the study of innovations made for the disabled community. Now this is a three hour class that meets once a week, I get so bored most of the time, but last class we talked about amputees and what science and engineering have done to help out. It's really interesting to see how science has progressed in the disabled area. We went from not being able to help out to being able to give these people their lives back. Honestly, some of the stories I've heard are pretty heartwarming. We live in an amazing time, and the technology can only get better.
TED is a show where you can see a variety of things, whether they are super boring or super interesting, TED's got it. So, in my lecture, we were shown this episode where this guy named Hugh Herr. He is an american rock climber who lost his legs in an accident. His team was stranded on a mountain and his legs attained frostbite. So he became an amputee himself.I'm not sure if he was a professor before this accident or after, but he was a professor for MIT. I won't spoil the video because its a really good video to watch.
If you didn't at least start to tear up while watching that, then you're actually heartless. When the dancing starts... its just all really heartwarming. It makes you want to be a part of the whole operation. A part of something so big it can change someone's future. Isn't that really what we should be doing anyway? Helping each other? We live in a world where even amputees can participate in the rigorous activities of everyday hobbies. What's next though? Are we going to be able to create tissue and rebuild a leg? Are we going to actually improve the human race for the better. Can we as a species do the exact opposite of extinction through the ideas in or minds? I believe that we can, especially after the things that I've seen already done.
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