This is from page 282 of your wonderful book, Scale.

Thank you.

And this is not a contiguous excerpt.

I read part of a paragraph than another part of a paragraph.

Okay, sure.

So you wrote, quote, with the development of language,

human beings acquired the capability of exchanging and communicating new kinds of information

on a scale and at a rate that was unprecedented in the entire history of life. A major outcome

of this revolution was the discovery of the fruits of economies of scale. By working together,

we could build and accomplish more with the same amount of individual effort, or equivalently,

we could complete specific task faster using less energy per person.

We developed, and I'm skipping ahead a little bit, we developed imagination and brought to

consciousness the concept of the future and therefore the remarkable ability to plan, to think

ahead, and construct possible scenarios and

anticipation of future challenges and events.

So I just, I guess my question here, it's almost like language, I guess itself, which is probably the most primary

technology we use, really contributed to this discovery, I guess if it's a discovery of the future,

right? So we have this, we started looking further forward in time through the invention of language.

And then this started that bootstrapping process that we've described earlier where you're just, we're using language to communicate, be more energy efficient.

And then we figure out other modes or technologies or energy sources in the world that propel that virtuous cycle forward even faster.

I don't know that I have a great question about this, but I'd like to maybe just hear your commentary on it.

Well, yeah, that was good.

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