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"I realized what each of these iron lung users have in common are the aid of generous, mechanically skilled friends and family. And that’s probably the main rea
by jxramos 9y ago
"I realized what each of these iron lung users have in common are the aid of generous, mechanically skilled friends and family. And that’s probably the main reason they’ve been able to live long and full lives, despite the hardships and anxieties of depending on aging machinery to survive."
Much thanks to that network of friends and mechanically inclined people. It would be great if we could archive their knowledge. I think it would make great documentary material to follow around these tinkerers.
- abstractbeliefs 9y agoOn the contrary, it's becoming increasingly illegal. The most obvious case currently are John Deere tractors that cannot be repaired or modified by their """owners""" under the headline of the DMCA, but in the future, we're going to see the same for medical devices. There was an excellent talk about this by Karen Sandler at freenode Live this year regarding her own pacemaker.
- kunimu 9y agoThere is similar problems with the software that runs pacemakers and other such devices, in which the source is not made available. The protection of users against themselves is an easy example of the intrusion of technological rationality and production for the sake of production in capitalism in which the totality of experience, even life itself for such people, is administered living.