Is Technology a Panacea for the Disabled?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday June 25, 2005 @10:36AM from the careful-with-your-cure-alls dept.

osssmkatz asks: "I have lived all of my life with a physical disability, and have recently been beset by the typical claims that I am too obsessed by computers etc. This raises an important philosophical question for me. Throughout my life, technology has seemed a way around my limitations, but recently, I have become aware that it may not be. Is technology the ultimate panacea or does it, as Hamlet suggest, only seem to be so? I hope this question isn't too broad for Slashdot which has covered disability, technology and sociology issues in the past."

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Re:stephen? by ngdbsdmn · 2005-06-25 23:39 · Score: 3, Informative

Please accept my apologies. It makes me feel sad when someone confirms that I still have a long way to mastering English grammar. I'm better in romanian and worse, much worse, in french.