I find inspiration in the strangest places. From life stories to watching Salamanders under rocks, it seems that inspiration approaches from really odd angles. Just a few minutes ago I got a bit of inspiration from here:
Being a Sci-Fi kinda guy (eat your heart out T.I.) I find the prospect of cybernetics extremely wonderful. The last time I read an article like this was about a terminally ill patient who had a glass tube inserted into their brain, in order to control a mouse cursor. Now here we have an amputee who is reportedly able to control a robotic hand, and receive feeling from it as if was a natural part of his own body. Very promising. Imagine if there were no more of those clumsy looking prosthetic limbs which are so readily available today. Those of us who have all their parts attached and intact never really pay much attention to how wonderful it is to be able to walk around, pick up things, to feel and touch things. It's so natural that we don't think of the absolutely complex and wonderful beauty of what makes up the human form. Those who are deprived of the ability to do things themselves because of a missing limb or limbs, get used to life but I'll bet if you ask most they would confess that yes they do want their arm back. Who wouldn't right?
This technology allows a modicum of hope for people who must live life augmented. They might look to a slightly better future, appreciating regaining what they had once lost.
