When Steve Jobs talked about his inspiration to create Apple, he gave all the credit to the Blue Box. This was a device he bought on the street that played tones to hack pay phones for free telephone calls. Jobs said there would be no Apple without the Blue Box. The device was created by one of the early “phone phreaks” and arguably one of the first hackers in history, a man who would later change his name to Joybubbles. Joybubbles was born blind and was obsessed with the telephone from an early age. He figured out how the computers running the phone system were communicating with each other and created the Blue Box to disrupt the system.

This is just one example of someone with a disability providing innovation that benefits the entire human race. There are many more.
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