Rebecca Knill : How technology has changed what it's like to be deaf

Rebecca Knill·TED@WellsFargo
How technology has changed what it’s like to be deaf
Summary
When the speaker told audiences that she was a cyborg, they laughed, though, l thought that it was true, but l didn’t explain it well but l didn’t know that she was deaf.

It’ll mean that we can’t know about differences. For example, there is a child can know about how to use the touchscreen of a tablet. However, if he/she doesn’t know about how to use the computer, he/she has a temper tantrum while touching the computer screen. This time, the table is the speaker and a child is us who don’t know about a cochlear implant.

It can be implanting 32 computer chips inside your head to rebuild your sense of hearing. It’s not a hearing aid. Hearing occurs in the brain, a cochlear implant is not hearing but able to communicate with you. It’s mind-expanding capabilities and it’s freed up to think more creatively.

Technology has come so far so fast.
I think that new chips must be used in all humans soon, we will be able to understand books, music, movies and etc. without hearing, reading and watching. Our mindset needs to catch up.