Freedom Machines

自由机器是一小时的公共电视特别节目，将突出有关支持5400多万美国残疾人的最新技术进步的信息。通过个人叙事、高影响力的故事讲述以及全面的公众教育和外展活动，该节目将向观众介绍辅助技术(AT)的使用，以及残疾人如何对其进行改造和设计。将被介绍的个人，其中许多是科学和技术领域的领导者，将鼓励残疾青年追求科学事业。将展出的许多设备和方法还将展示这些技术对健全的公众有多大的价值。这部60分钟的纪录片围绕先驱者、合作伙伴和先知的主题构建，以审查技术与残疾人之间不断演变的关系，概述新兴技术，并探索这一日益增长的现象的更大社会影响。一个配套的网站和广泛的外联计划将继续提供信息材料，支持和创建网络，并促进无论是有能力的还是残疾的观众与可能使他们受益的技术之间的联系。技术变革总是受到需求超乎寻常的人的影响。这一动态在当今的信息时代更加相关。自由机器将戏剧性地证明，设计一个包容的世界对每个人都有利。

Freedom Machines is a one-hour special for public television which will highlight the information about the newest technological advances which support over 54 million Americans with disabilities. Through personal narratives, high-impact storytelling, and a comprehensive public education and outreach campaign, the show will inform viewers about assistive technology (AT) being used, and how it is adapted and designed by people with disabilities. The individuals to be profiled, many of them leaders in science and technological fields, will encourage young people with disabilities to pursue careers in the sciences. Many of the devices and approaches to be featured will also show how valuable these technologies are for the able bodied, general public.The sixty-minute documentary is structured around the themes of Pioneers, Partners and Prophets in order to examine the evolving relationship between technology and the disabled, profile emerging technologies and explore the larger societal implications of this growing phenomenon. A companion website and extensive outreach program will continue the informative material, support and create networks, and promote linkages between viewers, either abled or disabled, and the technology that might benefit them. Technological changes have always been influenced by people with needs beyond the ordinary. This dynamic is even more relevant in today's information age. Freedom Machines will dramatically demonstrate that designing a world of inclusion benefits everyone.