The thing I hate most about my living situation is that I can’t get a freakin’ cell phone signal inside my house. If I need to make a long distance call (my land line doesn’t have long distance), I have to walk out to the street. This is not fun during a downpour or an emergency.
If I fall and can’t get up and can’t get to my laptop to fire off an e-mail or an instant message, I’m screwed. That’s ironic. We are at an age when technology should be making us ever more powerful, but in some situations it makes us increasingly helpless. For as long as homo sapiens have roamed the earth, we’ve been coming up with ways to communicate, hundreds of ways, in fact, but for the most part, these methods have been lost to us. Think about it. Can you personally communicate by any of these methods with any manner of ease?
- Semaphore
- Ham Radio
- CB Radio
- Sign language
- Esperanto
- Smoke Signals
- Cryptography
- Skywriting
- Oral history
- Troubadour
- Telegram
- Morse Code
- Signal mirrors
- Drum Signals
- Hieroglyphs
- Yodeling
- Petroglyphs
- Pictographs
- Earth Figures
- Carrier Pigeon
- Marathon runners
- Graffiti
- Signal Fires
- Pony Express
- Coded Spirituals
- Messages in a Bottle
- Satellite Phone
- Maori Hakka
- Interpretive Dance
It’s kind of embarrassing. With all these options at our disposal, why am I sitting here in my house, cursing my luck for not being able to get a cell phone signal? My ancestors would laugh at me.
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