By Cameron Clarke

He has been dubbed ‘the leader of the bionic age’ by Time magazine, and at the DigitasLBi UK New Front event MIT professor Hugh Herr shared his belief that technology can end disability in this century.

If you think this vision sounds ambitious, perhaps unrealistic, then bear in mind that Herr has proved people wrong before. At the age of 17, he lost both of his legs to frostbite in a climbing accident and doctors told him his prodigious climbing career was over. Not only did he climb again, but with the use of bionic limbs he scaled even greater heights Read full story ›

Source: The Drum