Ноябрь и Шарлотта

[sestra_kerry]

...This will be my holiday,
No more living with my fears
'Cause I gave them all away.
Tell my loved ones that I wish them well -
There's a fire in this November sky
It's burning up, burning up
They'll remember me tonight
There's a fire in this November sky
It's building up, building up
They'll remember me tonight
In this town, in this town...

Шарлотта живет на острове, в маленьком городке неподалеку от Бергена.
У нее наследственное заболевание, вызывающее прогрессирующую дегенерацию мышц. Ей сложно выполнять любые движения, большую часть времени она проводит дома в инвалидном кресле.
Ей бы очень помог brain-computer interface, управляющий домашними девайсами типа выключателей света, плиты или микроволновки. Но таких пока нет в коммерческом доступе.
К счастью, она может писать в мессенджер, и мы подолгу разговариваем.

- That was beautiful time, when we met it was the end of October, and then in November it suddenly started to snow. And we were sitting in my flat in Ostrava that looked like a room in a castle, drinking Japanese tea and speaking about everything and our dreams.
It felt so alive.
Now it's gone, dead.
I mean, my dreams are still very much alive but something that connected me and him is dead, like it never existed. And so, I'm trying to keep alive at least this one part - dreams.
Was biking home today and thought what they are exactly, what defines them. What defines my core, my very self.

My dream is to make mind-to-mind communication possible.
So that the language of that communication would not be restricted, primitive, discrete digital words - but waves, the analogue language of waves. Sound waves in form of music, electromagnetic waves of visible light, and radio waves.
Nobody believed that a living being can sense electromagnetic waves outside light, but now we know it's possible.
Maybe that will make our minds powerful beyond measure.
So powerful that you will need no help to move your body, you will be able to do so just with your mind.