No mo' Morse

The FCC has dropped its Morse Code requirement for all amateur radio licenses.

Futurist Paul Saffo says Morse Code will live on.

Freed from all pretense of practical relevance in an age of digital communications, Morse will now become the object of loving passion by radioheads, much as another “dead” Language, Latin is kept alive today by Latin-speaking enthusiasts around the world. Latin fans eagerly tick off the practical benefits of speaking a dead language, but of course they pursue their study because it is fun and challenging, gives them a sense of accomplishment and links them to a community of other passionate speakers.

The same will now happen with Morse.