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

Fowl Plague

Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
Duncan Geere

The Human Machine

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

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.

A man wears a prosthetic robotic glove, and with that he holds an electric drill.

Better Than Biology–Underwater Hands and More

For the first time, divers will be able to pick up delicate undersea creatures or retrieve fragile objects from sunken wrecks.
David Hambling
3 min read

The Solar System’s Hottest Real Estate

Where can we live other than Earth?
Duncan Geere
3 min read

Tinder for Your Fridge?

How apps can help you cut down on food waste.
Alice Bell
2 min read