Embracing Disability for Innovation and Joy

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The speaker shares their journey of coping with vision loss and how disabilities can spark innovation, from early typewriter inventions to shaping modern technology like the internet and AI. Through personal anecdotes, the chapter challenges stereotypes about disabilities and emphasizes the richness found in disabled life.

As a teenager, Andrew Leland started to lose his sight. One day, in all likelihood, he will be blind. In his moving new memoir, "The Country of the Blind," he reckons with his soon-to-be blindness while also challenging us to think differently about our ablest world.