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I was first attracted to Michael Heim by the title of one of his most notable books, Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (see Heim, 1999). Having finally decided to read it carefully (in May/June 2010), I see that Heim is well ahead of me in many respects, but that my ideas are still somewhat unique and augment Heim's work.

In particular, Heim makes specific reference to the machine tool metaphor, a concept that underpins all of my work here and that I thought was my sole invention, and provides excellent coverage of the cogence of the automated manipulation of language as an object.

Here's the link to Heim's personal site: http://www.mheim.com