How Innovation Sets Me Backwards
<p>In September, I was waiting to cross the Embarcadero in San Francisco. A woman standing nearby asked me, “Is that the wheelchair that can climb stairs?” I shook my head. (I hadn’t gotten this one before, so I didn’t have one of my joking comebacks ready.) She informed me, “The same company that makes that chair also makes ones that can climb stairs.”</p>
<p>Well. That would be impressive, considering the company that makes my chair cannot even keep the correct time on the joystick display.</p>
<p>Stair-climbing wheelchairs, exoskeletons, personal assistant robots, AI, CRISPR, and brain–machine interfaces are all called innovations instead of novelties. I call them shiny objects, and most of them will hurt me more in their mainstream mystique than they will ever help me.</p>
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