This is an okay article about the state of the augmentative and alternative communication technology and industry which has been dominated by the iPad since its

This is an okay article about the state of the augmentative and alternative communication technology and industry which has been dominated by the iPad since its release. I think it has a bad, misrepresentative, headline, but that's almost de rigeur. But the article also reveals a very sad story about the mother of a disabled child who longs for an "implanted brain chip" which will enable her daughter to "transmit [her] thoughts wirelessly" and communicate like other children. > Could a brain chip allow my daughter to verbally express herself with the same minimal effort it takes me to open my mouth and speak? How might she sound, telling me about her day at school? Singing “Happy Birthday” or saying “Mama”? It's part of a bigger trend of parents of disbled children in the AAC world. The fantasy of AAC is that all the cases are like Helen Keller, or Stephen Hawkings, or Roger Ebert, intelligent motivated individuals with mechanical impediments to traditional means of communicating, but they're not, and technology won't change that.