The other day I watched an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which everyone lost the ability to speak. The entire episode centered on what it would be like to be unable to talk to one another. In the show, life came a complete halt. People were wandering around aimlessly. It was like a scene out of any random apocalypse movie. The whole time I was watching the show, I was wondering what it would be like today if we suddenly lost the ability to speak aloud.
Losing the ability to speak would be awful. But I do not think it would present as big a problem nowadays as it would have been fifteen years ago. We communicate so differently now than we used to. Not being able to talk on the phone is not a huge issue. We have texting. We have the almighty Internet. Who needs vocal cords when we have a key board?
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