RE: Weekend-engagement topic week 44: See || Hear || Feel - Win HIVE

[bashadow]

A hard choice indeed, I chose to keep touch, and lose hearing. Hearing can be replaced by notes and reading, but touch? what can replace it?

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[gvkanten]

I don't think any of these can be fully replaced, music, laughter, video calls are all going to be hard without hearing too..

Maybe virtual reality helps soften the blow in terms of touch? Like those VR sets that make you think/feel like you're in a roller coaster...

[bashadow]

Technology is closer to hearing replacement than to any other sense, It, (technology), will have a difficult time replacing any sense fully, but there is the ability today to replace hearing via text, yes you will still be deaf, you will not get to hear the soft gurgles of a baby, or the sound of a song bird, but I have heard they are making pretty good progress on actually, from a google search for hearing replacing via bones

Bone-anchored hearing systems, also called BAHAs, are surgically implanted devices. They're typically used for people who have hearing loss in one ear, or who have outer ear or ear canal malformations, such as microtia. Surgery involves implanting a small metal device into the mastoid bone behind the ear.

[fruityfruitz]

I chose hearing too. Nothing can replace touch.