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I just read a really well-written, interesting and exciting short story about a deaf man with a bionic ear. It describes his attempts to tinker with his ear's firmware (think about that concept for a second), trying out different techniques and different technologies to improve his hearing, using his memory of what Bolero sounded like before his deafness as a baseline.

And the really amazing thing? It's from Wired. It's real. It's not sci-fi.

There's a lot to complain about in the world nowadays, but sometimes (most of the time, really) it seems like such an amazing time to be alive.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bolero_pr.html