Disability Futures

We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
Kenny Fries

The ID Question

Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
Anjali Ramachandran

The Roots of an Epidemic

From apartheid labor policies to everyday sexism, socio-political issues influence the spread of TB disease and the effectiveness of health responses. To tackle the epidemic, we need systemic changes.
Paula Akugizibwe

Beats: Space

Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

Beats: Food

Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

Beats: Disability

“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

Beats: Health

Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

What Our Tech Ethics Crisis Says About the State of Computer Science Education

The problem with “I’m just an engineer” isn’t the engineer’s inability to identify all relevant ethical implications–it’s that they don’t think it’s their job to do so.
Casey Fiesler
7 min read

Games as a Path to Self-Care

Neuroscientific research has found that playing games can offer players therapeutic value.
Andrea Ayres
5 min read

Wargaming Needs New Recruits to Save Lives

Simulating combat through play has an important history–but its future in the era of computer simulations is uncertain.
Mark Wallace
8 min read