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I just think it's a throwback from the days when people didn't really understand what was involved with CIs and the concept of people being surgically implanted with "machines" was a scary idea. Heck, even I had a misconception at one time that it was brain surgery.
I think this is a common reaction. When IVF was first invented for example in the late 1970s, people had genuine concerns that it would create grossly abnormal freaks. Apparently when the first IVF baby was born, the doctors who pioneered it were holding their breaths, hoping that the baby would be "normal".
These days if someone uses the concept of a "CI robot", they are probably refering more in a cultural sense rather than literally a robot. That is, that those of us that get CIs are pandering to hearing culture and being their hearing wannabee robots rather than being our true, natural selves within deaf culture only.
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Left ear implanted 9th June 2006 Activated 29th June 2006
Right ear implanted 31st August 2007 Activated 18th September Both Nucleus Freedom
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