INTERLOCKING SYSTEMS. “Each mode of language incorporates the features of the previous modes. The Internet incorporates all of the features of computing which in turn incorporates the features of all the previous modes: speech, writing, mathematics, and science. Science incorporates speech, writing, and mathematics. Writing and mathematics arose at the same moment in history. They therefore only incorporated the features of speech, albeit different ones.”
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