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LANGUAGE = THOUGHT. “Language is both an informatics tool and a system of communications. One cannot separate language from thinking. Without verbal language our mental life would be reduced to the processing of our perceptions, feelings and emotions. Verbal language allows conceptualization, abstraction and reflection to take place.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn

FIVE LANGUAGES. “Science makes use of the spoken word, writing and mathematics. The practice of computing makes use of the skills of spoken language, writing, mathematics, and science. And finally, the development of the Internet, the language of the Information Age, required all five of the languages that preceded it, namely speech, writing, mathematics, science and computing.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn

INTERLOCKING. “When a medium first appears, it uses the content of another medium exclusively for its content until its users have learned to exploit the new medium to develop new forms of expression. We saw that writing and mathematical notation made use of spoken language for its content.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn

NESTED CONTENTS. “The content’ of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph.” (Marshall McLuhan, 1964). The content of the Internet is computing and the content of computing is science and the content of science is mathematics and writing and the content of mathematics and writing is speech.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn

THE NEW MATHS. “The effects of computing on science are far too many to document. Suffice it to say that almost every contemporary scientific discovery involves the use of the computer. The language of the Internet and the dialect of the World Wide Web are essential for scientific activity.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_13 View in LinkedIn