Writing, A super human ability!

robot.walk() makes a robot walk now! I remember writing DDRB = 0b11111111; PORTB = 0xFF; to move a limb of the robot back then. There is a human written code at any abstraction level. The compiler itself is nothing more than a set of instructions. It’s all code written in different forms and with different syntax. The super ability of homo-sapiens is that we write.

We wouldn’t have progressed to our present state if we hadn’t started writing. What does it takes for monkeys to start writing? Or at least to start making shapes? Well, we all know the answer to be raise in the consciousness. But what triggered the raised consciousness of the sapiens?

It might be considered that we were god-gifted with this ability in primitive form in the beginning. And we progressed as we write. The early humans used to make shapes and symbols in stones. A wide leap was taken as symbolism advanced to scripts and hence the beginning of the alphabets. Gradually we advanced to the point where we can write everything that we can think of.

Now, as humans have advanced with technology to this point, writing is not only limited to communication, expressing feelings, emotions or describing things. We have started a new way of writing that doesn’t necessarily involve pen and paper. We now write electronically by pressing keys. We write and program devices to perform tasks beyond our capabilities. We have started writing codes that the machine understands. Writing rocket.lauch() in the appropriate line launches the rocket and begins the process of placing a satellite in it’s desired orbit in the space.

For a complex task like launching a satellite, we write complex mathematical equations to aid the algorithmic processes. We write sub-routines for various interrupts that may possibly occur. We write artificial intelligence to cope up with the internal and external factors. 

So, I would like to conclude that unless we write it’s only talk. We have to start writing to create an impact. It’s only about being wise enough to choose what to write. Being wise enough to choose the abstraction level. If there was no written form of intelligence in existence what would we read? 

There’s a saying that we first learn to read then we read to learn. But what if there was no predecessor who wrote. The process of learning is accompanied and validated by writing. So just include the libraries you predecessors wrote and startWriting();