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As the spoken languages of Africa elevated tonality to a crucial role, the drum language went a difficult step further. It employed tone and only tone. It was a language of a single pair of phonemes, a language composed entirely of pitch contours.
The Information
James Gleick
Before 300 years ago, the standard of the average human’s life was fairly interchangeable anywhere in time or place: People were perennially hungry, short lived, limited in choices, and extremely dependent on traditions simply to survive to the next generation.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
But this shifts the clickbait-iness to the level at which “humanness” is assessed. Being human is reduced to something people perform for clicks.
Across the Floors of Silent Seas
Rob Horning
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