Thanks, Harold. Arthur Brock replied the following in a closed facebook group. Reposted out in the open with permission.

Arthur Brock There are some other noteworthy things about the evolution of our communication capacities that are left out of the TIMN story. Like the ability to create charters and constitutions... A language act that speaks a new entity into to being including it's ability to change the language that gives it being (amending the Constitution or ByLaws).

This is a new type of communication that continues to evolve in parallel giving rise to institutions which surpass the existence of individuals. Our legal code in general is connected to this new kind of speaking, and computer programming extends its capacities in a fascinating direction where the speech act (program) takes on vivid living properties, and can even be written to adapt its algorithms.

Currencies are another type of communication media where value flows are encoded into formalized symbol systems to enable us to collectively shape, enable and track value flows. The ability to design and implement appropriate currencies is one of the newest kinds of literacy sorely lacking from our educational system and society in general.

Anyway... just some thoughts to extend the inquiry of the originally posted article.