The Sixth Language

Download or read book The Sixth Language written by Robert K. Logan and published by Stoddart Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is transforming learning and commerce and accelerating the evolution of the Information Age into the Knowledge Era. Web pages and sites, intranets, extranets, and hypertext come together in cyberspace to form one huge Global Network -- the realization of Marshall McLuhan's Global Village. How we respond to the challenges and opportunities that are presented by this burgeoning technology will have a huge impact on whether we will be successful in our future learning and work endeavors. In his provocative new book, Robert Logan submits that the Internet is more than just a technological toy; rather, it constitutes a new link in the linguistic chain, joining speech, writing, mathematics, science, and computing. Characterized by a unique semantics and syntax, the Net forms another distinct step in the evolution of human communication -- the sixth language.