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With higher levels of man-machine interaction becoming commonplace, communication will become increasingly denominated and translated by Mathematics.
Recently I stumbled across a post by a travel blogger on how to say “I love you” in 100 different languages. “我爱你”, “Je t’aime”, “Ti amo”, “사랑해”… so many ways to say the same thing.
But to a computer all of it would be the same.
01101001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101
That’s “I love you” in binary code, the basis of all computer languages. If one computer had to send another a romantic text, it would probably look like this…
Digitized except for alcohol
In the history of mankind, certain inventions were common across all cultures and civilizations, no matter when or where they arose, regardless of how big or small the population— language, art, music, religion and one could possibly argue, alcoholic beverages.
But while their inventions across time and space seemed inevitable, they have manifested in various forms and permutations. Indeed, the…
