MAGIC KEY TO TECHNOLOGY
Dont let anyone fool you that computer was a major invention. All
it took was for someone to decide to count from 0 to 1 rather than
10. We thus went binary. That easily led to the on-off
bits. Trillions can be used to store data and manipulate these
data. Voila, you cant help but welcome the new-born king of
technology, the computer.
In a similar manner, China has been searching for this magic key to
technology. Simplifying the
written characters, or even alphabetizing them with pinying, is in the
right direction. But it's like using
Chinese character numerals to do arithematic. We are, in truth,
digging a hole to bury ourselves.
On the cultural front, we are doing more than that. We are
trashing our language and, along with it, a large part of our culture,
doing
all these bedeviledly in a junk-yard atmosphere created by the western
barbarians.
Well, remember the time we burned and buried Zheng He's records.
That bundle of records probably worthed more than all the combined
intellectual properties that some people today hold so
preciously. The simple purpose of
this anti-technology act was to preserve culture. The least
we can do today is to preserve our language characters, technology or
no technology.
No technology! A few more centuries of shit? No way!
Unless, of course, we can find the real magic key to technology.
A prospective magic key is ROBACUS, a robotic abacus, based on software
automation. It requires a familiarization of a set of 1000
truncated English words to operate. In combination with Linux,
the free operating system, ROBACUS would free China from being held
hostage by Microsoft's Windows operating system. And the abstractly
constructed, alphabetical
English will also free the Chinese minds from being frozen in a
rigid cultural mindset. Then, we cant help but welcome the
necessary evil, technology.