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His entire body and identity have become the property of a collective human-machine network.

On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human

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HÉLÈNE MIALET | Wired Magazine

No voice, no other sounds, no facial expressions. His sole means of communicating is through infrared connection to his computer.

Hawking’s persona, his disability, and his embodied network thus becomes a window on our machines, the nature of work, and even our representation of scientific heroes.

In fact, it’s precisely because of his disability that we get to see how all scientists work … and how the entire world will work one day.

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