"With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may litera..." — Dee Hock

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.