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Graduation speeches rarely are moving, and seldom do they make an impact on the graduating seniors or parents and family in the audience. An exception is Admiral William McRaven's graduation speech to the graduating class at the University of Texas in 2014. The admiral sent a message that resonated with everyone in the audience. The standing ovation he received lasted nearly as long as his speech. The speech has had over 6.1 million viewers on YouTube (www. youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70&t=20s), and 100% of the several thousand comments have been positive.

Biggs was the consummate academic and his recorded organ tours of foreign countries brought the world of organ history from the silent pages of books to the speakers of our console Zenith and RCA stereo cabinets. Peace protesters were beaten by policemen acting like thugs; news anchors were roughed up on the floor of the convention center-all on live TV. First one, then two, then three calls were answered with static. On this eve of eves, during the ninth out of ten orbits around the moon, at 9:30 p.m. (EST) with one billion television sets tuned to the same global channel, the largest single audience in human history watched.

Both years were also marked by a presidential election in which the rhetoric of \"law and order\" was utilized to rally the support of racially fearful white voters, as suburban white voters were urged to support crack downs on America's \"urban jungles.\" Reforms in law enforcement, including the utilization of community policing and the recruitment of female officers (12.8 percent of all officers in 2020), had their roots in the unrest of the 1960s. [...]of President Obama's 2015 Task Force on 21st Century Policing, twenty-nine states now mandate deescalation training for all police (Stockton, 2021). Other areas of research that have been folded into policy by law enforcement departments include community policing, use of force, use of body cameras, community-police engagement, and police, guardian and Crisis Intervention Team training.

This case study situates an early text-to-speech computer developed for blind persons, the Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM), within a broader history of speech synthesis technologies. Though typically no more than a footnote in the technical history of speech synthesis, the KRM was still a powerful symbol of innovation that reveals how disability can be used as a pretext for funding technology development. I argue that various boosters held the KRM up as a symbol of technological solutionism that promised to fully enroll blind people into the US political economy. However, the success of the KRM as a symbol belies its technical flaws, the federal subsidies needed to bring it to fruition, and the structural barriers to its use that were elided by its utopian promise.