Lidia Garcia Fernandez's Blog – June 2015 Archive (2)

DISABILITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

One in five people in Britain today has a disability and their present lives are still affected by the lives of their predecessors during the Industrial Revolution. But what was the experience really like for disabled people during this tumultuous period in history?…

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Added by Lidia Garcia Fernandez on June 19, 2015 at 15:30 — No Comments

Neil Harbisson: the first cyborg

 If you thought that cyborgs only appear in science fiction I would like to introduce you to Neil Harbisson, recognised as the first cyborg in the world. But, what is actually a cyborg? According to the dictionary is a creature that is part human and part machine in science fiction stories, but this is a real one.

 Neil was born in London in 1982. Son of an Irish father and a Catalan mother, he was diagnosed with achromatopsy at the age of eleven, after several…

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Added by Lidia Garcia Fernandez on June 10, 2015 at 13:30 — No Comments

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