Martin McKay Creates Assistive Technology That Helps Everyone Achieve their Full Potential | Education Vanguard 76

Martin McKay is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of TextHelp a software company based in Northern Ireland that creates software to help support anyone to better reader or writer. They work with schools but also other organizations so anyone whether a student or a professional has the tools they need to reach their full potential. Martin is an enthusiastic technologist, who has a personal story that drove his interest in assistive technology. We discuss this and how his personal journey with technology and his specific story led him to start the company he leads today that impacting millions of learners around the world.Martin on TwitterRecommended Articles/ResourcesGreat Courses Plus: Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic SystemsPeter Diamandis book AbundanceAbundance -  book by Dr. Peter Diamandis (Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation) and Steven Kotler (bestselling author and science journalist), published on February 21, 2012. It is a thrilling antidote to today’s dark pessimism. The authors rely on exhaustive research and extensive interviews with top scientists, innovators, and captains of industry to explore how four emerging forces—exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion—are conspiring to solve our biggest problems.