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Featured: The “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you

“There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call ‘The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex.’ You know the one. It usually features a college engineering team, a dramatic piano soundtrack, and a disabled person strapped into a machine that looks like a Transformer having a panic attack. The caption usually reads: ‘Students invent stair-climbing wheelchair! The future is here!’”

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