Signatures Through Technologies Orality | Writing | Computation

We talk about AI as if tools had suddenly entered human thought. But we have always become human through the technologies that carry language: orality, writing, and now computation.

Socrates feared writing because it would move memory outside the self. Maybe he was right. Human thought surely developed differently through the alphabet.

And maybe that is the point.

Every medium changes what it means to think. Every tool leaves a fingerprint on the self.