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DIFFUSION OF WORDS. "Because of social media, words are moving around the world within weeks and months, whereas before, it could take a few years." https://lnkd.in/dKdj57e View in LinkedIn

FASTER ADOPTION. "The fast pace of change on the internet means we are adopting more words faster than ever before. Language itself changes slowly, but the internet has sped up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly." https://lnkd.in/dKdj57e View in LinkedIn

"AN ALPHABET SOUP of acronyms, abbreviations, and neologisms has grown up around technologically mediated communication to help us be understood." https://lnkd.in/dBD8zjV View in LinkedIn

CYBERLINGUISTICS is evolving before our eyes. The younger generation are using emotion" " symbols in shorthand for words, as they text rather than speak. We are witnessing the evolution of a new social language. "Some chat and instant message programs will automatically translate text smiley faces into graphical emoticons. The word emoticon is defined as a pictorial representation of a facial expression." https://lnkd.in/dxuYKmQ View in LinkedIn

IMPACT ON IDENTITY. "Friendship interaction and peer-to-peer relations are increasingly conducted online or through text messaging. Such interactions have had major cultural consequences. Texting and online communications have influenced the evolution of language. They have thrown up new rituals and symbols and have had an important impact on people’s identity—the young in particular." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION. "Brian Arthur of the Santa Fe Institute believes that Technology evolves over time: “machines started as disparate pieces of seemingly unconnected technologies, but like humans, they also have an origin and a process of evolution.” He is arguably the first person to tackle the question of the origin and evolution of machines." https://lnkd.in/dhVUUSY View in LinkedIn

OPTICAL ILLUSION. “Having such a block of time missing just before the rapid Cambrian explosion has made some people suspicious that it might not have been as much of an explosion as it appears. It would be a bit like feeling confused at the climax of a story because you had skipped the setup. A new paper in Nature suggests that far from concealing the story of the Cambrian explosion, the events that created the Great Unconformity may actually explain it.’ https://lnkd.in/dtYSB5v View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. "Technological evolution refers to the changes over time in technology that give humans increased control over their environment." https://lnkd.in/d-EG9jg View in LinkedIn

PRECAMBRIAN GAP. “There’s a widespread gap in the rock record immediately preceding the Cambrian explosion called the Great Unconformity. The boundary is so prominent—often separating very old igneous and metamorphic rocks from the much younger sedimentary rocks above, as is the case at the base of the Grand Canyon—that all rocks older than this are often lumped together as simply "Precambrian.” https://lnkd.in/dtYSB5v View in LinkedIn

FAST ADVANCES. “We put together pieces of metal alloy and fossil fuel so that we hurtle through the sky at close to the speed of sound; we organize tiny signals from the spins of atomic nuclei to make images of the neural circuits inside our brains; we organize biological objects — enzymes — to snip tiny slivers of molecules from DNA and paste them into bacterial cells...Two or three centuries ago we could not have imagined these powers.” (W. Brian Arthur). https://lnkd.in/dBf9m3S View in LinkedIn