Letters are, themselves, a symbolic representation of an intangible concept that is used to aid in passing communication from one person to another. From movable type and Gutenberg’s printing press in the early to mid second millennium, I would argue that the increase in widespread modularity of content, method, and mechanism serve as standardized pavers and combustible fuel for the rapid increase in traffic on the information superhighway.
Automation, in the metaphor I am building here, can be represented by an automobile. As computers have become more reliable in their counting, the electronic automation of complex processes has allowed for quick reuse of content. As the vehicle is powerless without its fuel, so the rapid and valuable mechanized manipulation of modular letters, sentences, paragraphs, pages, images, and moving images relies on the combination of modularization and automation.
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