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explores innovative human capabilities. The article explains how human’s innovation often
seeks to expand their senses. Several innovations can be attributed to mankind. Examples of
such innovations include; the radio, the alphabet and the wheel technology. However, the
downside of such technologies is that they worked in isolation, i.e., they were not advanced
further. The development of electromagnetism gave such innovations a link that made them
accord the collective social consciousness. Within the alphabet, the phonetic alphabet results
alphabet separates the visual sense of an alphabet from the aural sense. Through the phonetic
alphabet, speech is produced through the interaction of the different vocal organs. These
vocal organs include; teeth, tongue and lips and can produce certain sounds. These phonetic
alphabets are responsible for turning humans into a civilized society from a "tribal" one. The
alphabets open up the isolated society in the past and make it more oriented towards
globalization. The increased interaction among different cultures and people from different
The article illustrates how phonetic alphabets have led to a form of consciousness in a
have an inner life that is full of dissent. On the other hand, inner verbalization such as prayers
is regarded to be social acts having instantaneous consequences. This analogy means that the
phonetic alphabet is responsible for the different levels of consciousness between the
phonetic alphabets have transformed mankind. From the Roman periods to print technology
civilization. The alphabets have transformed mankind from the aural and oral culture
through deriving meaning from sound. Besides, the alphabets have coded sound as visual,
thereby deciphering its meaning. Presently, humans are in a post-literacy stage that does not