ABSTRACT
This chapter suggest that disability often features in the imagination of social futures with technology. Technology has a vital role in contemporary social life especially in relation to disability. Technology is not only something that underpins daily life, it is a key to imagine and arrange society. From science and technology research, as well as activism, there has been a longstanding recognition that technology systems, industries, and key aspects of the control, ownership, and shaping of technologies, is in the hands of particular interests. The social model broadly makes a case for the social and political nature of disability. In terms of technology rights, provision of technology occurs very differently depending on the place of disability in the lifecourse, but also the particular institutional setting. Various scholars and activists have critiqued the governing myth of technology as akin to a luminous salvation and deliverance from disability.
