We ran across an interesting article today about social missions becoming a more and more common business impetus for technology based firms. Something between a traditional for-profit and non-profit business…a business run for the social good, without the red tape for the most part. We found it very interesting in regards to ReEnabled.org because it echoes what we hope to turn ReEnabled.org into in the future. We’ve a great desire to solicit discount goods and services for registered users of this site, perhaps even donations and gratis assistance for those things that just make life easier — even if insurance won’t cover it. At any rate, here’s the link to the article in the New York Times (registration required).

When you hear about a musical group that has been approached by filmmakers and television executives, has a new custom tour bus and a tour schedule so full they have to turn gigs away, Bon Jovi or Aerosmith might come to mind. However the band that’s getting all this attention is FLAME, a group from upstate New York, made up of people with developmental and physical disabilities, including paralysis, autism, Down’s syndrome, mental retardation and blindness. For the band from Lexington Center, Fulton County Chapter, NYSARC, Inc., their fame is growing fast but their message remains the same.

Let me propose something radical: The biggest advances for mobility challenged individuals won’t be coming from the medical community or the research community. They are going to come from computer gamers.