Postcards From a Supply Chain
A series that traces consumer goods back through the global shipping system to their source.
The Human Machine
A series about the increasingly blurred lines between us and our machines.
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.
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.
$75 to Walk Again: Tackling Asia’s Prosthetics Crisis
Instead of getting inappropriate secondhand prosthetics from the West, this charity is making their own bespoke ones in Laos.
Let’s Not (Accidentally) Build Depressed Robots
In trying to build machines that can experience “real” emotions, we might end up creating intelligent beings as mentally fragile as ourselves.