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       How technology has changed what it's like to be deaf


Rebecca Knill, a writer, who has cochlear implants that enable her to hear, explains how technology, for Deaf people, has changed in the last years and how has been her day a day during her life with it. 

She was born without hearing sense, and her first electronic system let her hear her voice and listen to music, but she kneew these weren't natural sounds and although in 2003 she decided to have the implant; as the Deaf community, she thought they wouldn't work. She explies us how the hearing sense operates, the advantages of that implant, how the silence can be adictive and why they don't wish to have the hearing sense.

Rebecca says that technology can help make the world more human. She says that it will be lots people with a significative lose of the hearing sense by 2050 due to our hair-cell damage is too common, in part, because we are exposed in our day by day to lots of noises. Affortunatly, their life is now easier because of some invents like texting and the adition of subtitles to the Netflix and other companies films.


My oppinion about this TED Talk is that it's really interessant. I really liked it.
It's true that people just think about themselves, and listening to her opinion about how this part of the society feels has made me be a little more emphatic. For example, she says that, when some people sent a vido which was about a man walking throught the streets and kneew the sign lenguage, they said her that they end up crying, just because he had that disability; and she couldn't understand it. As she says, Deaf people problem is the way people respond to their deafness. We need to change our mindset, and that's so difficult to do.

Aid: Ajuda
Wipe out: Eliminar
Rate: Índex
Speech: Expressió
Tough: Fort
Outdated: Anticuat
Mainstream: El principal corrent
Mindset: Mentalitat

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