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Here are a couple of Articles that were originally published in WIRED magazine that I found very interesting. I think they provide a different context for viewing physical differences and the challenges involved for the families, the parents, and most of all the children.


The Citizen Scientists : by Sara Solovitch

Here is a the story featured in the September 2001 Wired article "The Citizen Scientists." An article by Sara Solovitch.

"United by the Net and emboldened by their numbers, parents of desperately ill children are funneling millions into research, building vast genetic databases, and rewriting the rules of the medical industry."

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The Next Brainiacs : by John Hockenberry

Here is a the story featured in the August 2001 Wired article "The Next Brainiacs." An amazing Article by John Hockenberry that talks about the present and future of assistive devices. He compares them to user interfaces (much like this webpage) that allow people to interact with the world (just like you are now accessing information in code from my webserver).

"Bodies are an arbitrary evolutionary solution to issues of mobility and communication. the brain has no particular preference for any physical configuration as long as functionality can be preserved"  --John Hockenberry

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