"We're turning plastic surgery from something that people use in service of vanity, to a real tool for improving workplace efficiency."
So sayeth the doctor responsible for whittling down the bones in a persons thumbs, plus a few other tweaks to the tips, so he can use his Iphone and other gadgets easier.
The procedure involved making a small incision into both thumbs and shaving down the bones, followed by careful muscular alteration and modification of the fingernails. While Martel's new thumbs now appear small and effeminate in comparison to his otherwise very large hands, he says he can still lift "pretty much anything I could lift before the surgery - though opening spaghetti sauce jars has been a problem. That was a big surprise."
A large man with large hands, has proportional sized fingers to match the tendons and muscles within.
Altering a finger to make them more petite might seem a good idea at the moment, but consider what happens when he over stresses his small thumbs on some heavy task, his thumbs most likely will be damaged, maybe he wont notice it at first, but over time snap.
The we have the chilling words of the good doc,
"a real tool for improving workplace efficiency."
Yegods, does that not strike fear into the very marrow of your bones, visions of HG Well's Doctor Moreau and his wonderful island holiday retreat.
Could this be the next stage in the dehumanising of factory and cubicle workers? And where would it stop, what would you let your employer do to you for a pay rise, and a secure job, brain in a bottle!
Implanted RFID chips for making some tasks easy at work and play, were just the start.
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