Disabled or Differently Abled?

I was reading about some new scientific advances in correcting deafness, I mean restoring hearing, with gene therapy. These advances using gene therapy will be much better than plain old hearing aids which just amplify sounds or even fancier cochlear implants that not everyone can use. But there are some folks that think deafness is not a disability that needs curing and instead they tend to identify with the rich culture of the deaf community. Even so I wonder if they might not be interested in having hear restored over the fixes we have today. The next big things on the horizon that I read about are more advances in biomedical technology that will create more was to be differently abled than ever before. Some examples are hearing aids that pick up wifi signals, spectacles that are really headsets like Google Glass, and walking sticks that become multifunctional prosthetic limbs. Science won’t just be fixing impaired senses. It’s already creating new ways for us to use in sensing our world too.