Don’t resent him just for being rich, did you read it? First elective surgery for laryngectomy which may make a case for future ALS patients if it reduces risk of death.

Also- "Esther Duran, design and innovation director at the Scott-Morgan Foundation, collaborated with Lama Nachman, director of the Human & AI Systems Research Lab at Intel, to help Scott-Morgan communicate. Previously, Nachman and her team developed Intel’s Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit, a software platform that helped Hawking communicate through keyboard simulation, word prediction, and speech synthesis. They made it open-source so that developers could build different capabilities on top of it.”