This 2009 stamp honoring Louis Braille's bicentenary underscores technology's effect on communication. Postal mail and braille have both lost ground to the immediacy of the iPhone, email, and the web. I get nostalgic for handwritten notes watching Downton Abbey, but can live without them. The braille code, on the other hand, is crucial to the education, self-sufficiency, and independence of blind people. Let's hope technology in development at National Braille Press and elsewhere help spread braille literacy, rather than replace it.
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