The Human Machine

A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
Ian Steadman

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

Isla del Encanto

Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island’s agricultural future–from community gardens to research hubs, bakers to growers to distillers.
Alicia Kennedy

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.

Solving the Global Address Problem

Four billion people around the globe who don’t have a way to refer to their home–but Google’s Plus Codes are a reinvention of the geocoding wheel that no one needs.
Duncan Geere
2 min read

How CrisisNET is Democratizing Crisis Data

It gives journalists, data scientists, developers, and more fast, easy access to critical government, business, humanitarian, and crowdsourced information.
Ken Banks
2 min read

Can a Computer Learn to Dance?

The biggest problem for robots understanding dance is the same as for humans–notation.
Gillian Rhodes
4 min read