Latest Viewpoints by Derrick Fountain

Over the years, I have developed platforms that single-handedly sought to usher in the age of the Spoken Web. This work predates the work that IBM is currently doing with its newly-formed research lab in India and their Spoken Web Project. The Spoken Web is a solution that I've been researching and developing for the last 4 years to help human beings overcome what I like to call "situational disability." Situational disability occurs when any human being finds themself in a situation where they that lack the "ability" to access information due to internal and external handicaps. The common way for human beings to overcome these situational disabilities is through the use of assistive technologies. As human beings, we can only carry so many grocery items when we walk through the aisles of a grocery store. A shopping cart is an assistive technology that helps us overcome this handicap. Remove the shopping cart from the shopping experience and you will see a cascading negative effect that imapacts both c