Is Technology a Panacea for the Disabled?

osssmkatz asks: "I have lived all of my life with a physical disability, and have recently been beset by the typical claims that I am too obsessed by computers etc. This raises an important philosophical question for me. Throughout my life, technology has seemed a way around my limitations, but recently, I have become aware that it may not be. Is technology the ultimate panacea or does it, as Hamlet suggest, only seem to be so? I hope this question isn't too broad for Slashdot which has covered disability, technology and sociology issues in the past."

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Re:stephen?

[Ithika]

If it's better then your body than it's better overall.

That's horrific: you managed to get both annoying mis-spellings within two words of each other!