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Computers have changed the lives of us all in this room and around the world, but I think they've changed the lives of we blind people more than any other group.
It's an interaction between volunteers, passionate inventors and technology, and it's a story that many other blind people could tell.
In 1987, in the month our eldest son Gerard was born, I got my first blind computer, and it's actually here.
It's a blind computer.
It was invented by Russell Smith, a passionate inventor in New Zealand who was trying to help blind people.
Of course, talking books for the blind predated all this technology.
For example, Australia, like about one third of the world's countries, has copyright exceptions which allow books to be brailled or read for we blind persons.
It's something that a group of countries and the World Blind Union are advocating, a cross-border treaty so that if books are available under a copyright exception and the other country has a copyright exception, we can transport those books across borders and give life to people, particularly in developing countries, blind people who don't have the books to read.
I'm so glad that the interaction between braille transcribers, volunteer readers and passionate inventors, has allowed this dream of reading to come true for me and for blind people throughout the world.
Strangest of all, had a real-life crowd of circus performers burst into her room, she wouldn’t have been able to see them: she was completely blind.
For example, our eyes have blind spots where the optic nerve blocks part of the retina.
When the visual cortex processes light into coherent images, it fills in these blind spots with information from the surrounding area.
Because Charles Bonnet Syndrome only occurs in people who had normal vision and then lost their sight, not those who were born blind, scientists think the brain uses remembered images to compensate for the lack of new visual input.
That's how physics works: A single measurement can put us on the road to a new understanding of the universe or it can send us down a blind alley.
It was the winter of 2009, and I had been blind for about a year.
Paramount amongst those was the realization that, actually, cities are fantastic places for the blind.
And then I started to realize that it seemed like the blind seemed to have a positive influence on the city itself.
Let me step back and take a look at why the city is so good for the blind.
And I know it bothers some of my blind friends, it's not just me.
So my final takeaway for you is that not only is the city good for the blind, but the city needs us.
And I'm so sure of that that I want to propose to you today that the blind be taken as the prototypical city dwellers when imagining new and wonderful cities, and not the people that are thought about after the mold has already been cast.
So if you design a city with the blind in mind, you'll have a rich, walkable network of sidewalks with a dense array of options and choices all available at the street level.
If you design a city with the blind in mind, sidewalks will be predictable and will be generous.
If you're blind, you don't drive.
If you design a city with the blind in mind, you design a city with a robust, accessible, well-connected mass transit system that connects all parts of the city and the region all around.
If you design a city with the blind in mind, there'll be jobs, lots of jobs.
Blind people want to work too.
So, in designing a city for the blind, I hope you start to realize that it actually would be a more inclusive, a more equitable, a more just city for all.
And based on my prior sighted experience, it sounds like a pretty cool city, whether you're blind, whether you have a disability, or you haven't quite found yours yet.
He spends his free time trying to fix up his staff on blind dates, and I know that if I ever had a problem, he would do anything he could to help.
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