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+At this point in history, the conceptual
+and theoretical constructs are distilling and
+summarizing the past into programs that
+mimic natural and human activities. And
+conversely, the rich paper records are being
+concealed, secreted away in caves like the
+treasure of the Niebelungs. The distillation
+remains in databases,
+hoarded by large corporations and governments.
+
+More and more the world is seen in terms
+of information no matter what the reality is.
+Just look at the account books, the numbers,
+the projections, the returns. But computerized account books tend toward a sort of
+semi-autonomy --- market-to-market, interactively linked --- and drive this outer reality
+before it. The investment in computer-compatible thought is so great that more and
+more we become trapped in this new culture
+and they cannot admit that we have been led
+down the wrong fork in history's decision
+tree.
+
+If all is fundamentally the same, it follows
+that a data base in one language should have
+the power to talk to data bases of other
+disciplines in other languages (mediated, of
+course, by programmers, protocols, translators, modems, computers, networkings...).
+One might have to descend into the primal
+language and then, choosing the right fork in
+the decision tree, emerge into the proper
+language. If only one can design the right
+protocols, ones that will not only link among
+unlike, competetive machines with unlike,
+competetive architectures --- IBM's,
+Control Datas, Apples, Crays, DEC's --- but also unlike
+transmittal systems run by competetive companies. Languages can be united because
+each field and domain, each way of looking at things,
+should be a subset of the one,
+universal, primal language. Perhaps what is
+expressed in one domain should be considered as an encryption of what is expressed
+in another domain.
+
+However, not only do computers in different disciplines not translate into one
+another well, but different manufacturers
+and communicating companies (to say nothing of nations), while proclaiming one world,
+one language, falling prices, one global village, and universal compatibility, fight one
+another tooth and nail. They erect a maze of priced mediations and product differentiation,
+countering speed and directness of transmission with profitable labyrinths, in
+different time-zones, each turn and gate
+tolled and tariffed, competing and maintaining secrecy, organizing those to whom they
+sell services on a need-to-know-and-pay
+basis, playing the differentials among different states of being, business and knowledge. (Citicorp, for instance, computerizing
+and gaining speed, places its headquarters in South Dakota in order to --- taking 
+advantage of the laws --- gain advantage which allows it to keep checks for a certain time and
+thus enjoy a float in the empyrean.)
+
+There are certain laws to be deduced from the observation of business practice. Information
+management, traffic control and
+pricing follows the timeless strategy of railroads in the past: which is to say, given a
+certain limited distance, the problem becomes to increase distance by increasing price.
+Economies of scale are developed, need for certain volumes regardless of content, development risk to be paid for by the consumer.
+Tesseracts of tax shelters spring up. An incredible maze of contradictory laws emerge
+requiring incredible expenditures of intellectual energy and computing time.
+Information theorists always leave out the costs.
+Claude Shannon quantified information;
+AT\&T and IBM priced it. Shannon's theory did not develop in a vacuum; he did his work
+for Defense and Bell. Where did the money come from? What did the funders want and
+what did they not want? What other enterprises cross-subsidized these developments?
+What solids were melted down, who was liquidated to fund the Great Enterprise? No
+different than the practices of the ancient Phoenecians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans,
+Venetians, Fuggers, or any other merchants in history. (In addition, of course, the amounts
+of energy, in terms of electricity, required to run and cool computers is staggering.)
+
+If we take into account the human, informal, anti-organizational, shadow-organizational networks,
+the person-to-person
+contacts, those who emerge to resist this development,
+those who have an interest in not
+sharing information, we see vast, centrifugal
+forces at work. On the one hand, the emergence of a unified system, a sort of electronic
+Catholic Church: on the other, a sort of
+electrofeudalism.
+
+Given all this potential convertibility,
+how can money talk to nuclear particles,
+pension funds speak recombinant genetics,
+prime numbers retrieve fictional heroes\ldots ?
+Can we really create a translation program,
+which is to say a unified field theory? Or
+should we, not having been invited to the
+initial feast of reason, create a \emph{disunified field theory}?
+
+The primal-language business, like the
+origins business, is highly competetive (since
+the costs of computer runs is much more
+than paper experiments). One of our many
+ultimate transformational and alchemical
+media, a primal liquidity in which all life is
+dissolved, reconstituted and redisolved is
+genetics. What is the market value of bioengineering as expressed in some form, with
+purchases involved, with manufactured products and processes at the end, investible
+end-products and investors screaming for
+their dividends, trying to hurry time up?
+Will it cost the world's savings to transform
+humans and will we be left with one creature
+at the end?
+
+We raise the same questions about particle-wave physics and its ruinously expensive paraphenalia.
+Finance, literature, genetics, nuclear physics: four (of many) primal languages; three
+media in which translations from realm to realm can be seen as new versions of progressive metamorphoses.
+