Hi Alex.
I had a very similar experience as far as school goes. I'm afraid though,
while I do agree braille still has some minority uses, I'm not entirely
convinced by the "if the power went" arguement. Under that reasoning, well
shouldn't we all also stop using our electric ovens and learn to cook over
wood fires? The same goes for washing machines, electric dryers, and just
about anything else. If we took this arguement to it's logical
conclusion, ---- well maybe we ought to stop cooking our food in case we
were ever without the means to make fire. In fact I'm pretty sure that back
when the first proto humaan had the bright idea of throwing a pointy stick
at their prey someone said "ug ug! this spear bad! if throw spear from
distance, how we learn to run fast after mammoth! what we do when have no
spears? ug ug!"
Okay, this is probably a little extreme, but you see the point. We can only
adapt to the current situation we're in, and the technology we have before
us, sinse if we start playing the what if game we could be here forever.
Btw I'll also add on a practical level, if we were! in an appocalypse
situation we'd also be without the means to make braillers, so we'd better
also all learn to use a stylus :D.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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