The invention of the alphabet, like the invention of the wheel, was the translation or reduction of a complex, organic interplay of spaces into a single space. The phonetic alphabet reduced the use of all the senses at once, which is oral speech, to a merely visual code. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy , Univ. of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1962. The density of our communicative invention has caused it to collapse in on itself.
Electronic technology reverses the process.
Language can decode and unfurl its way out of a depressed, compressed state and becomes nested in a pluralistic medium constructed of segments of content and their connections. A network of content and symbols is created with arbitrary borders. It can expand, contract, reverse, mirror, juxtapose in any direction at any length. Growth of such a network can be hierarchical, cyclical, associative, or boolean alchemies of all three. Each fragment of information claims its independence with its own addressable unit.