ABSTRACT

Man’s very perception of the world about him is programmed by the language he speaks, just as a computer is programmed. Like the computer, man’s mind will register and structure external reality only in accordance with the program. Since two languages often program the same class of events quite differently, no belief or philosophical system should be considered apart from language. (Hall 1966,1-2)

Unlike madness in the seventeenth century, technology is not reduced to silence. It speaks its own reasoning.