The structure of the story line out of Mesopotamia leading to the soft tool culture that I plan to use was largely devised by Lambert Gardiner and explained in his A History of Media, published in 2002. Indeed, we had become a thorough information society by then, but the frenetic waves of change that rocked our boats some two decades later had not quite formed. Yes, the addictive Blackberry, from Waterloo, Canada, had been stealing psyches for five years by putting email terminals into people's pockets. But so-called smart phones waited until 2007 when Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone. These were the early graspers at the tips of the Internet's tentacles, helping us to conclude that the future was in our hands no matter that the massive, publicly-accessible bandwidth and snappy communication protocols that propel our now favourite media and the training of AIs was yet insubstantial.

So here is a summary of my story line adapted from Gardiner's work. I use, as he did, the processes that followed apocryphal changes to explain the advent of subsequent events. Unlike Gardiner, I place considerable emphasis on the reason that change could transpire - namely, language, because it is the underlying mechanism and driving force of new media.