It may seem that disability is no barrier to gaming, read here. It is still a significant barrier in life and it’s mainly physical rather than mental disability that seems to benefit from technology.
However, it will not be long before other barriers fall enough so that disability, or what cannot be replaced or fixed, is not a hurdle to anyone.
Once we have sorted VR and people can work more from home, the machines are doing the donkey work we will find that people with physical disabilities will be able to do anything either via add ons or by instructing machines to do the chores for them.
I think that people with physical disabilities will be the first ones to benefit from the new technologies. They seem to have benefited quite a bit from the computer enhancements over the last two decades.
Although we don’t seem to have made the same progress with some mental illnesses. Even though a significant portion of us suffer from all types of issues, from depression, low self esteem to schizophrenia, etc. That area is much harder to work in. Although that is not to say some mental illnesses are helped. For example agoraphobia must be helped by many working from home but in these cases it is simply a plaster rather than a cure.
Mental health must be the most difficult areas to work in. I wonder if we will ever be able to ‘cure’ it rather than just control it and stop it happening in society. I usually look on the bright side but in this subject I just don’t see it.
Sorry to have to agree with you but the mental ones will probably not be overcome.
So much of the brain is unknown. Maybe someday someone will map it and reveal it’s secrets. Maybe then they can answer the next posts questions.
Yes,but not all mental health issues are organic so cannot be eradicated.
Uber, Well it’s the ones inside your mind where there is nothing physical wrong I see being difficult to cure.