Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
From electrodes implanted in optic nerves giving sight to the blind to electronically advanced arms and hands for the disabled, bionic body parts have come a long way from the fiction of the six million dollar man.
Guests
- William Craelius Associate Professor, Biomedic Engineering, Rutgers University
- James Geary Author, "The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses"
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