The Internet is awesome and enables all kinds of new research

Now, thanks to Choisser and the Internet, Duchaine could locate hundreds – even thousands – of subjects. "A whole new world of questions can now be asked," he says. "We're moving inside the black box."

Face Blind - Wired

It's one of the greatest inventions of mankind. How can we make the Internet even better than it is today?

For Housman, as for most prosopagnosics, the Internet is changing everything. He learned about his condition when his wife stumbled across Choisser's Web site one night. She thought it explained a lot about her husband, and she showed the site to him. Housman stayed up until five in the morning reading Choisser's online memoir and following links to other prosopagnosia Web sites. For Hasidics, Housman says, "it's considered arrogant if you make a big deal out of something or call attention to yourself. So I didn't really talk about my problems until I sent my first email to Brad Duchaine."

Face Blind - Wired (page 5 of 5)