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Hawking spent over five decades surfing on a wave of technology that just barely held back a disease that could have buried him at any time. If self-promotion h
by mannykannot 6y ago
Hawking spent over five decades surfing on a wave of technology that just barely held back a disease that could have buried him at any time. If self-promotion helped him stay on that wave, I don't begrudge one bit of it. After all, it's not like he was selling a bill of goods: he delivered.
- bostonsre 6y agoWhat technology helped him stay alive for so long? Everything I've heard about it before said that they didn't understand why/how he was able to.
- mannykannot 6y agoIt's not just about staying alive, it's also a matter of being able to communicate and to participate in the informal but important network of people working on difficult problems. I also feel that medical technology has advanced in staving off the secondary- and side-effects of ALS, including cognitive decline, even though it cannot prevent or cure it. And if, in the end, it actually made no difference, I don't feel that would be relevant to my attitude to how Hawking lived his life.