The toolculture has entered a new phase, namely that of the intrinsic world of the world of machines. Tools did not evolve from language and language not from tools. Language and technology have developed on this common ground. In this sense tooltechnology, in particular those tools that autonomously process symbols like intelligent machines, is the key to human evolution. Tool culture has always been symbol culture, without symbols there is no storage possibility, without a storage or memory there is no experience.
Writing is the first memory, the computer presently the last one.
Writing can be used to bridge spatial and temporal distances. Decorporealized, dematerialized information can be moved about in space and time. This was the first revolution in communication. The invention of the bookprint was the second revolution in communication. Masscommunication was now possible.