Referring to its standards those digital transactions are declared to be the implementation of text processing. Since this is a proposal to enlargen the common use of the respective concepts we have considerable control of what we ought to say on such occasions. One available option is the immediate phenomenology of word processing. But this very appearance is manufactured in order to appeal to intuitions acquired in literal societies. Technology underlies phenomenology.
Software designers are responsible for what appears to the users of computer programs.
The situation calls for analytical scrutiny. We do, actually, call them texts - a fact that has to be emphasised against the background of naive phenomenology as well as jargon from computer science. This is the concern of Section 3. The final section of this paper attempts to allay suspicions involving vicious circularity. One has to be grounded in some established conceptual practice in order to be able to change the meaning of the words employed.