My 2 cents…………..
In regards to technology like the REX and the ReWalk, I just want to get personal for a moment. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that this research and development is going on and that these products are becoming available, but I’d love to see all this time, effort, expertise and funding put into finding THE CURE!!!! Go back to the root of the problem, and save the environment from the extra waste that producing all these robotic parts and electrical equipment is going to create. Surely that’s the best course of action.
Look at the recent returned Japanese space flight. Us humans managed to launch a vehicle into space, over a 7 year period fly it MILLIONS of kilometres away and land it on an asteroid, take some surface samples, fly it home again and land it within a few hundred metres of where we predicted it to in the Aussie outback. COMPLETELY UNMANNED!!! Think of the sheer logistics something like that takes. The technology involved? Intercepting a moving asteroid? Monitoring everything about the mission for 7 YEARS? Landing it in the exact spot you predicted back on Earth? Take your pick. And yet we STILL can’t repair a spinal cord? C’mon, we can. We HAVE to. Just have to fit the right puzzle pieces together. And there’s only one way to do that, KEEP AT IT!!! Experiments and human trials right now. Get stuck into it, I reckon. I’m sure there’d be willing participants lining up. Start with old injuries and work backwards.
In the words of Rage Against The Machine:
“It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here. What better time than now?”
Very fitting.
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great quote