Since I was 10, I learned Morse for hobby. It gave me a lot of good moments when I listened to Shortwave Radios. One time, I could even receive a wheather forcast station from Greenland in my home, or one time a short identity code from Bhutan. On the moment that I found that I know Morse enough for relatively comfortable listening and writing it down, I heard on the news that Morse is not the official communication code anymore because it is old-fashioned. Only for amateurs. Nevertheless, I believe of the importance of primitive technics, also the radio lamp, because it gives inspiration for new inventions without going away from the basic, and also because in emergency cases or stress situations, a human being will survive with the primitive basic that is in him.
One example a true-happened story of someone who who lost the controll over all his muscles. He could only clic with his eyes. They made a board with the alphabet, put in about 6 rows. By asking "row 1 ?, row 2 ?,... l?m?n?", and looking to the confirmation with the eye clic, he was able to talk. When electronic devices are connected with the part of the body that can move, eventually with a light sensor, someone can become able to talk in Morse. It can be connected with a deciphering module which translates it into a text.
That is why I believe that in the internet time and age of virtual reality, we are sometimes forgetting the basics.
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28th July 2001, 20:16
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