Let’s be honest, most tech stories that come out these days are more likely to result in a Xanax subscription than a glowing reaffirmation of mankind’s magnanimity. Devastating security breaches are about as old hat now as dishonest politicians, and too much screen time is, of course, turning our children into illiterate zombies. The apocalypse, it seems, is here.
But something interesting popped up in my news feed this morning that actually gave me a glimmer of hope: Google just launched two new apps that will help the deaf and hard of hearing communicate better in a world that is, at least until now, not really made for them.