66. Jesse Sullivan
Jesse Sullivan, hailed as the
world's first "Bionic Man," lost his
arms as a result of an accident
during his work as an electrical
linesman. The Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago gave him the
opportunity to replace his arms with
robotic prosthetics, which, thanks to
a procedure that connects his
nervous system to the artificial arms,
allowed him to lift objects by just
thinking about doing so. Sullivan
was the first to receive this
treatment during a 2005 procedure
at RIC's Centre for Bionic Medicine.
67. Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius
is a South African sprint runner.
Although both of Pistorius' legs
were amputated below the knee
when he was 11 months old, he
competes in events for single
below-knee amputees and for
able-bodied athletes. He runs
with J-shaped fiber prosthetics
called the "Flex-Foot Cheetah"
developed by biomedical
engineer Van Phillips and
manufactured by Össur.
68. Rob Spence
Rob Spence lost his right eye.
Rather than simply settling for a
glass replacement, he went for
high-end technology. With the
help from friends he crafted a
video camera replacement for his
right eye.
Now his eye records video
everywhere he goes, in an
attempt for Rob to become the
first lifecaster.
69. Micheal Chorost
Michael Chorost (born December
26, 1964) is an American author,
essayist, and public speaker. Born
with severe loss of hearing due
to rubella, his hearing was partially
restored with a cochlear implant in
2001 and he had his other ear
implanted in 2007. He wrote a
memoir of the experience,
titled Rebuilt: How Becoming Part
Computer Made Me More Human.
Its paperback version has a different
subtitle, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to
the Hearing World.
72. Projection sources:
• 1° Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers – Internet Trends 2013, Mary Meeker
(may 2013)http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trends-2013
• 2° The Future of Digital, Henry Blodget (nov 2013)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-digital-2013-2013-11
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