War Stories: My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface
WiredIn the summer of 2011, when I was 25 years old, I found out I was going blind. What started as a routine trip to the optometrist ended in multiple trips to a retinal specialist, photos being taken of the back of my eye, and a procedure called an Electroretinogram where hard contact lenses attached to electrodes are used to measure the electrical activity across different regions of the eye. I was diagnosed with Stargardt’s macular degeneration, a genetic disorder that destroys the retinal cells in the center part of the eye. Public transportation is great and finding parking is more trouble than it’s worth — not to mention I owed more money in parking tickets than the total value of the car itself. |||||| Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter, and While getting around the city was no longer a problem, continuing to maintain my productivity with a computer was.
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