There is a long way from bird song to sonnets . The diversity of languages, both human and non human, is astounding. It emerges out of a complex history between author, the World, perceiver, the perciever's environment and the perciever's history. Language allows Technology to develop. The history of technology is in fact the history of language .
Language is technology .
Memetic plagues ravished the earth. Proto European culture, World War II, MTV and Tamogotchi. Lessons learned from history are always being re-applied. Precedents are set, documents are filed, and the global network has emerged. There are more Microsoft word documents on this planet than people.