Had the university engineer he had just been introduced to said that he was working on making writing obsolete?  When notions get formed in the mind, the engineer had explained, the mind releases some as thoughts by giving them language.  I am developing embedded transmitters that will instantly capture that language and automatically transmit it to a platform of your choice — paper, screen, hologram.  He had to sit on a lawn bench nearby to take in the engineer’s celebrated vision.  What are you saying?, he asked the engineer.  A lot of data is lost between the moment a thought is formed in the mind and the time it is articulated, the engineer explained.  By eliminating the act of articulating — the human filter — our thoughts can be closer to authentic.  He clenched the bench seat in order to say What are you saying? again, but he often recalled how the dread of any answer had by then rendered him mute.