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Technology is not the problem – getting it is

The Angry Gimp is angry with people telling her she’ll walk again. Here’s a synopsis worth scrolling down for!

People, quit telling me I’ll walk again. Save that for Christopher Reeve’s cronies. The world already has everything in it that I need to be incredibly independent and happy. Too bad it’s so out of reach.

The world already has everything in it that I need to be incredibly independent and happy. Too bad it’s so out of reach.

If people really want to help me out, really want to make me feel better, they’ll tell me that there are people doing research to create adaptive equipment to make my life easier. They’ll tell me that they are working for political causes that will give me the funding I need to survive. They’ll tell me they’re going to start a fundraiser to raise the $60,000 I need to be able to buy the equipment I need to drive again. That’s the stuff that my biggest dreams are made of.

I thought “YES!” It’s a hard concept for some to grasp that somebody in a wheelchair might actually be quite okay about their life. Just like any human being there’s ups and downs. Things we can do, others we can’t.

The issue for lifekludger is that everybody has different needs to each other and those of us with a few different needs to the ‘majority’ (not ‘special’ needs, different needs…another topic) due to not being able to use some part of our anatomy often find technology is a tool not a toy. However the very group of people who stand to benefit the most from technology are the very group who often have the least access to it.

That’s why lifekludger tries to bring ideas to people and people to ideas. To quote a previous post on my personal blog:

Technology should always be about the people and for the people. Sure, we can have fun and get excited about it along the way but in the end it’s not about the things, it’s about what the things give to the people …… ‘connect people to things and people to people‘.

Love people, use things! … Not vice versa.

I’m not waiting around for the singularity.