How disabled people pioneered the remote work and digital tools now seen as innovations

Summary

This article explores how technologies that are often framed as modern conveniences or innovations (remote work, telehealth, AI, grocery delivery, email) have been essential survival tools for disabled people for years. The author, a disabled person who cannot easily navigate the physical world, argues that disabled people have been living in what society now calls "the future" out of necessity. The piece challenges the narrative that these changes are novel post-Covid developments, instead highlighting that disabled communities pioneered these strategies as adaptations to an inaccessible world.

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