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How Technology Allowed Me To Read

Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he reads -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and the help of volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution.

Subjects:: Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Computing
Keywords:: Assistive computer technology Reading -- Aids devices Blind -- Books reading
Resource Type:: Video

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When Technology Can Read Minds, How Will We Protect Our Privacy?

Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What will it mean for our already violated sense of privacy? In a cautionary talk, Farahany warns of a society where people are arrested for merely thinking about committing a crime (like in "Minority Report") and private interests sell our brain data -- and makes the case for a right to cognitive liberty that protects our freedom of thought and self-determination.

Subjects:: Technology and Computing
Keywords:: Privacy Thought thinking -- Data processing Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

Subjects:: Psychology and Philosophy
Keywords:: Medical care Choice (Psychology)
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