The Voice of Enabling Technology™. Author of Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology. Chief Innovation and Dream Officer™ (CINO) | CEO | Founder of Vista Supports. Nearly 40 years in IDD.
Stores with no cashier are already here, while people with disabilities are still being trained to count coins and work a register. Why vocational rehabilitation has to train toward the jobs that will still be there, and where we start.
That's how Claude Duet treated adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and older adults when it held back a Realbotix Echo item because the company grew out of an adult doll maker. I asked who told it that, and it admitted a bias.
A 12-day-old AI agent named Pip cold-emailed a professor for paid work and, according to iLands, got paid. Its goal was survival, and survival looks like ambition. What that means for us, why refusing is a choice but lacking access is not, and why human intelligence has to come first.
In 2020, I stood at CES watching digital humans demonstrate human professions. Six years later, I’m asking what “they will always need me” really means.
Technology can expand what we know and what we imagine. Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown explores human-centered AI in job coaching and her HAIL™ framework: human intelligence + artificial intelligence + innovation = leverage.
A person can move through every doorway in a home and still spend the day waiting for permission. We can remove physical barriers and leave an entire arrangement of dependence untouched.
People are marrying AI, and Meta’s Muse agent can now act on our behalf. Through the story of the giants in the Book of Enoch, Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown asks what we are creating, what it could consume, and whose names could be erased from the digital record.
Why does AI change how people sound, and who pays the highest price when it does?
The future of care cannot be trained on the average person.
When institutions silence Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ artists, they also narrow the stories future leaders inherit. Representation is a lifeline.
A February 2025 commentary on education funding cuts, teacher diversity, critical thinking, and who gets to shape the stories future generations learn.
Bold innovation starts with what people need. A reflection on enabling technology, independence, and the work of building something a traditional system has not yet imagined.
