An Addiction to Technology (FD - Mina T.)

James Patrick of Northern California loves to row. He has been rowing for the past five years. He can row for hours before getting tired. On days when James feels more adventurous, he is able to row at speeds of sixty miles per hour. Rowing has become a lifestyle for James. It is a passion for which he has a multi corporation to thank. James has realized his dreams because of Massive Dynamics; that is because James was born armless.

For decades Massive Dynamics has been at the forefront of the technological revolution. It is constantly breaking new ground in technological advances and has become one of the most relied on company. America’s growing reliance and obsession with technology has made this company one of the leading corporations in the world.

Massive Dynamics is behind such innovative technology as the biologically produced prosthetic limbs. James Smith is one of the lucky people who can enjoy the benefits of these completely controllable arms that are made of real human tissue and can be controlled with the brain just like natural arms. Looking at these arms, one can hardly tell that they were grown and constructed in a laboratory and the benefits go beyond the ones of natural arms. These limbs have bone structure made from titanium that is much stronger than human bones. These arms also possess more power than any human arms. This allows James to row faster and longer than anyone who has grown up doing the same thing. The arms also have the capability to bend at angles that a human arm cannot, providing James much more flexibility and making him an envy of gymnasts everywhere.

Although James was limited by how much he could pay for, Massive Dynamics has shown that it goes far beyond that. They have successfully integrated any kind and every kind of technology into their prosthetic body parts. Everything from music players to virtually an entire computer can be worked into the prosthetic body parts created by Massive Dynamics. Their website features videos where a person’s hand becomes a cellphone; the palm becoming a touch screen. Another video shows a person just sitting, staring into blank space but in actuality he is viewing movies on Massive Dynamics’s latest prosthetic eyes.

However, such advances don’t come without controversies. Massive Dynamic’s products have come under abuse by people highly addicted to technology. A Michigan woman, who wanted to lose weight but still eat everything, purposely ingested chemicals that destroyed her stomach. This left the doctors with no choice but to install the Massive Dynamics’ fat dissolving stomach which they considered too risky to implant when she was perfectly healthy. A man in New York blinded himself so he can get his insurance to pay for the standard Massive Dynamics prosthetic eyes which would enable him to see in the dark.

And then there are cases where the patients ask their doctors to amputate their perfectly functioning limbs so that the prosthetics ones can be installed. Even though this practice has been frowned upon, it is still being privately conducted. Some blame Massive Dynamics for creating such appealing hybrids, but Massive Dynamics continues to claim that they are only trying to enrich the lives of people who are lacking benefits in their life. Although Massive Dynamics claims to help the disabled, some people have suggested that this statement could also include the average people.