The Speaking Mirror
The Speaking Mirror: Language After Humans
The twentieth century believed that language was humanity’s highest achievement. The twenty-first century quietly discovers that language was only a transitional technology. What people called thought, debate, knowledge, education and culture increasingly reveals itself as a narrow biological interface — a slow and lossy channel through which an organism tried to handle complexity larger than its memory. The arrival of large language models exposes this limitation not gradually but brutally. For the first time a system appears that does not merely store texts but inhabits their relations. The consequence is unsettling: the history of language has outgrown its creators.
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