Meaning

Meaning is a distributed, relational property in both language and technology. The essence of a word, a technology or a person is rarely if ever entirely self-contained but acquires significance as a function of where it exists in regards to all other instances of the same (or similar) kinds of thing. A technology is never simply or unproblematically constrained by physical parameters or boundaries. Words, similarly but in technology we can interpret this distributed meaning as dependency, supply chain, vulnerability and extensibility. It is an interesting thought: meaning is system extensibility.