Alternative futures of the disabled with bionic prosthesis

Abstract

This essay suggests a few alternative images of the future for the disabled with bionic prosthesis by analysing the main drivers of the future and how each of the main drivers is involved in each of the images of the future. The term ‘disability’ is mainly bounded to physical disabilities in this paper due to the limitation in distinguishing the physical appearance between the normal and mentally disabled. Proposals of hopeful and preferable future images for the disabled and warnings of the current trending bionic prosthesis technology to the researchers and the government officials are described using different scenarios in terms of the importance of policy-making and the essentiality of controlling the appropriate use of the technology for bionic prostheses. This paper explains and illustrates to help the future generations draw the image of the various futures of a society that is in harmony with the disabled people.