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 Human Machine

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

A Noxious Problem

Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
How We Get To Next

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.

Tackling the Gender Imbalance in African Tech

Squashing the old mentality and enhancing gender equality in the industry.
Ken Banks
2 min read

How One Village Threw Out the Frackers and Went Solar

For the small village of Balcombe, community and collaboration trumped fossil fuel money.
Alice Bell
8 min read

$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.
Lindsey Kennedy
2 min read