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Scientific Eventuality Or Science Fiction: The Future Of People With Different Abilities, Deedee M. Bennett
Scientific Eventuality Or Science Fiction: The Future Of People With Different Abilities, Deedee M. Bennett
Public Administration Faculty Publications
Consider this, we are living in a future [in-part] imagined over 30 years ago- in science fiction film and books. We may envision that 30 years from now we could live in a future with technology developed from the concepts we see in science fiction today. In this paper, the concepts of disability are challenged in the future based on the technologies imagined in the science fiction genre of the present and past. Focused on the sub-genre, Cyberpunk, current mainstream, as well as new emerging technologies inspired by science fiction are reviewed. Future disability is reimagined dependent on continued support …
The Future Of Accessibility In Disaster Conditions: How Wireless Technologies Will Transform The Life Cycle Of Emergency Management, Deedee M. Bennett, Brenda D. Phillips, Elizabeth Davis
The Future Of Accessibility In Disaster Conditions: How Wireless Technologies Will Transform The Life Cycle Of Emergency Management, Deedee M. Bennett, Brenda D. Phillips, Elizabeth Davis
Public Administration Faculty Publications
By describing a transformed life cycle of emergency management, this paper re-envisions how emergency managers may prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against disaster impacts in the future. Additionally, this paper also reveals how the broader social, political, economic, and cultural levels must change to foment a culture of safety with and for people with disabilities. The authors use the framework to identify how future wireless technologies can empower people with disabilities with regards to individual (or household) emergency preparedness and in coping with the drastic life changes following a disaster.