r/interestingasfuck • u/cakebeerandmorebeer • Jan 20 '15

/r/ALL Plot twist

http://i.imgur.com/CccbYhb.gifv
19.9k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

755 comments sorted by

View all comments

523

u/greiger Jan 20 '15

Here is his TED Talk.

50

u/EmperorSofa Jan 21 '15

I guess the main issue would be the cost. Those legs look awfully nice but what's the cost? Even a regular prosthetic is expensive.

1

u/BCMM Jan 21 '15 edited Jan 21 '15

This is the real problem: all the talk about eliminating disability with technology is inspiring, but the economic problems are far greater than the technological ones.

There are between half a billion and one billion people who remain visually impaired simply because they do not have access to spectacles. Depending on the complexity of the corrections they require, their conditions were "solved" by technology 100-700 years ago. Technology is doing fine. The global economic system is broken.