Representing the cyborg/disabled person relationship as both seamless and self-evident obscures the facts of these very technologies. In a context in which most disabled people in the United States are un- or underemployed, and in which almost a third of disabled people live below the poverty line, many of these cyborg technologies remain out of reach of the people for whom they are imagined.32 The “cyborg-style iLimb Hand” heralded in the UK Register, for example, costs eighteen thousand dollars, and the price tag leaps higher if we include not only the device itself but the training and
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