Page 13 – How We Get To Next

Your Pandemics Questions Answered

Vulnerable individuals should always have a flu vaccination at the appropriate time of the year–outside of the grip of a pandemic,...

Duncan Geere
Nov 10, 2017 5 min read

The Human Machine Reading List

Recommended reads on how bodies and technologies relate to one another.

Ian Steadman
Nov 7, 2017 6 min read

The Human Machine of 2037

A list of radical futures which will feel shockingly mundane.

Ian Steadman
Oct 25, 2017 7 min read

Building A Faster, Stronger Human

Who are the prosthetics and exoskeletons of the future for?

Jane C. Hu
Oct 10, 2017 12 min read

Outbreak

If an enterprising bookmaker decided to offer odds on which apocalyptic event is most likely to wipe out the human race,...

Simon Parkin
Oct 6, 2017 10 min read

Airborne: We’re Five Mutations From a Major Pandemic

In 2012, a team of virologists led by Ron Fouchier showed how easily H5N1 avian flu could become one of the...

Duncan Geere
Sep 29, 2017 22 sec read

Who Gets to Be Perfect?

Editing the human genome has huge potential for improving health–for those who can afford it

Corin Faife
Sep 26, 2017 10 min read

Evolution

Anyone entering the virological laboratory, one of the most highly regarded in Europe, was subject to a security check. Workers were...

Simon Parkin
Sep 22, 2017 8 min read

The Machine and the Mosquito

According to the World Health Organization, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015, 90 percent of which...

Greg Noone
Sep 15, 2017 10 min read

The Future of Birth Control Means Facing Up to Its Sexist Past

The "male pill" is within reach. Why does the burden of contraception still fall on women?

Hannah Harris Green
Sep 12, 2017 12 min read

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Choreographing the Physicality of My Bodies When disabled people dance, our use of technology and of the body changes what nondisabled people know. This new information is critical for all of us to understand how beauty, politics, culture, and technology... Read More

It’s Time to End Germany’s Culture of Benevolent Exclusion Imagine a society that doesn't need a fixed construction of "who is disabled" and "who is able," but one that looks at individual needs, regardless of diagnoses. There should be assistance and support for... Read More

Creating Shared Spaces With Every Form of Language The ABC sitcom Speechless serves as an important reminder of the vital ways in which disability invites us to reconsider how we relate to and with other people. Read More

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. Read More

Remaking the Ideal Teacher If I fight for inclusion and equal access for my disabled students, I must extend these rights to myself. I must accept that I perform in nonstandard ways. I must be ready to talk... Read More

How We Think About the Future of Disability We ignore disabled writers at our peril. Disability is–physically, emotionally, and technologically–in the process of redefining our lives. Read More

Online Shopping For More Than Just Good Value Just as none of us has exactly the same combination of shopping habits and values, what we've lost as shopping becomes more and more a digital act is also more personal and specific–I only... Read More

Photo Essay: Scenes From Puerto Rico’s Foodways Puerto Rico has to be seen to be believed–and, to some extent, to be truly understood. Photographer MariÃ¡ngel Catalina Gonzales has the perfect eye for her home: a way of capturing both its truth... Read More

El Futuro de la Comida desde una Perspectiva Puertorriqueña Desde setas hasta pan y ron, los puertorriqueños estÃ¡n explorando nuevos caminos hacia la soberanÃa alimentaria. Read More

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