One of the reasons that technological progress in the 20th century was so much greater than growth in previous centuries is that there were so many powerful communication technologies invented in the 20th century that connected people around the globe: the telephone, the TV, the internet.
"As the world has exploded into so many ways of communication, we're helping them navigate it".
But equally, we now have so many methods of communication that there really is no excuse for not replying.
In this digital age, with so many channels of communication, it takes a human connection to break through the marketing clutter.
We've grown up with so many methods of communication available to us, and we've gravitated towards the least intrusive ones because we know how it feels to be digitally prodded on a range of different channels.
"I think it's sort of interesting, and it's very complicated but compelling, that my work and ideas and visuality have been drawn into so many sites of communication".
Now that we have so many real-time communication tools like SMS, Facebook, and Twitter, there's less need to plan things far in advance.
According to literature, the study of nasalance was carried out by clinicians, rather than linguists, who tried to solve the resonance disorder caused by velopharyngeal insufficiency by surgery, but because of so many cases of communication disorder caused by hypernasality after surgery, clinicians have been interested in speech management.
"There are so many forms of communication available to us that there is a lot of miscommunication going on -- some people prefer to use email while others want to use Facebook," Adams says.
Sometimes, a work brings together so many forms of communication -- In this case sound, visual, and the human body – that it's better to take it all in as one than it is to try to pick it apart and figure out what's doing what.
