Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel. This book examines how as humans advanced technology to master, control, and change the world around us, our language also adapted and continues to adapt. More sophisticated social-cultural practices necessitated the evolution of more complex manners of communication. This was the beginning of technolingualism - a mutually influential relationship between language and technology. Language changes in its vocabulary, structures, social conventions, and ideologies, in order to express the new realities rendered through the new technologies. Similarly, these same features of language play an informative role in the development of technology. The advent of a world wide web has exponentially increased this rate of progress. Technolingualism explores the fascinating ways, past and present, by which language and technology have contributed to each other's development.

The book reveals important corollaries about the universal nature of language and, most importantly, what it means to be human. From our first babbling noises to the ends of our lives, we are innately attuned to the technology of our surroundings and our language reflects this. We are, all of us, techno linguals.