“The biggest benefit from language was not the ability to communicate with others but the ability to communicate with ourselves. Language allowed us access to our own minds. It gave us a way to manipulate our thoughts. To reflect, to operate on memories, to predict. It gave form to ideas.”
“In the next 25 years we’ll learn more about ourselves than in the last 25,000 years. One hundred years from now we will have a very different idea of what we think humans are.”