[Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?

[Zach]

Yep, we're still here :)

Some neat observations.  yeah, I know some people in tech that care about helping the disabled a lot and have their hearts in the right place.  Unfortunately, the military has ZERO interest in helping disabled folks, in fact they are responsible for a VAST percentage of disability in the world thanks to meaningless wars for oil and money.  Their "innovations" don't ever really support human life in any capacity.
My two cents, but anyway I'd like to see this list more active and teach more classes!
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On Sat, 4/25/15, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:

 Subject: [Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?
 To: hackability at lists.noisebridge.net
 Date: Saturday, April 25, 2015, 7:59 PM
 
 I enjoyed talking to
 people on here. Breaking my ankle and getting around in SF
 opened my eyes to a lot of issues! 
 A lot of the accessibility APIs are so easy to
 implement on mobile phones nowadays. Apple and I think
 Google are doing a cool job - I'm sure there are open
 source projects.
 Even if we don't have time to do these
 projects every day they are pretty cool. i think a lot of
 early PhD work on location based technology came up with
 scenarios around not just military work but also tools to
 help the disabled.
 So in a way you can say that helping "vision
 impaired/hearing impaired" (I don't know the
 correct terms) people were major things that pushed
 innovation in tech forward.
 Wasn't the guy
 who invented the digital text OCR technology concerned only
 about helping blind people read first?
 
 it is blind and deaf people who are
 part of the tech revolution!
 
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 Romy Ilanoromy at snowyla.com
 
 
 
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