This week, I’m eight miles closer to my goals. Eight miles, 2400 feet and three doorways that seem a little more open than they did just one week ago.
The first doorway is technological. I continue to be amazed by how many technological advances have been made in the last eleven years. When I first traded in my driver’s license for a transit pass, there were certainly many useful tools that helped the blind and visually impaired do more with their lives then sit on a street corner with a can of pencils, but the comparison between now and 2003 is staggering. A lot of it has to do with size and chipset power. There have been optical character recognition scanners for years, for example, but the idea that you can plug a miniature camera into the USB port on my Continue reading “I’ve Got Rhythm…”