Interesting to think of all of history as a succession of layers being added to the operating system of human civilization. The interpersonal layer The famili

Interesting to think of all of history as a succession of layers being added to the operating system of human civilization. The interpersonal layer The familial layer The trading layer The political layer The legal layer The transportation layer The textual layer The mass-media layer The microprocessing layer The internet layer The virtual layer Each one retroactively reconfiguring the layers below it as it comes into being.