The basic language we use to communicate with one another is changing. The masters of building and transmitting knowledge used to be the Chinese. They invented paper, gunpowder, great schools, had great explorers who went out and explored half the world. So why are we all not speaking Chinese yet? The answer is that this is a hard language to teach. It’s a hard language to code. Europeans and Americans became dominant because of code. They collapsed everything we learned into 26 letters. It got easier to learn and teach. Then, a few decades ago, we began collapsing 26 letters into two. That means when I use my computer, I’m not sending you ABCs, I’m sending you 1s and 0s. We’ve collapsed every word written