What is 1LANGUAGE?
During our evolutionary travels, we have become increasingly connected and interdependent. From the hunter gatherer stage when we lived in family and tribal settings, we evolved and used ever growing societal constitutions traversing villages, cities and nations. With the arrival of the digital age and more efficient means for travel and transport, we now have become part of an interconnected and interdependent global society.
What
1LANGUAGE is a “smart language” and first of its kind.
A smart language is just like a traditional language that you can speak, read or listen to, yet it is composed out of small algorithmic parts that make it do things that go well beyond the abilities of traditional languages.
1LANGUAGE can translate a language into other languages and understand questions and reply to them in almost all frequently spoken languages. It also facilitates machines, products and things to speak with humans and vice versa.
Why
When we use English, the English language is ours to speak, ours to read and ours to write. That commonality of language is considered self-evident in today's society.
With the arrival of the digital and virtual age, language becomes increasingly interwoven with algorithms, leading to smart languages and artificial intelligence. Those algorithms become increasingly powerful and are almost exclusively not commonly owned and accessible. The 'languages we search in' are an example of this. In order to use them, we need to give up part of our privacy and information positions. This trend is likely to intensify should we not take a radically different approach.
1LANGUAGE is a commonly managed smart language that is more beneficial to collective interests and above all, open, freely available and accessible to everyone and everything. Because language should unite.
How
1LANGUAGE is part of the Internet of Entities. This new internet is based on 'nature's uniting design principles' and introduces a new set of technologies for information and communication.
Nature is built around the unification of information and value. In this section we provide some background and examples of how the Internet of Entities and 1LANGUAGE in particular work on the basis of these uniting natural design principles.
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When
Learn more about the timelines of 1LANGUAGE, its past, present and future to get an idea where we came from and where we are heading to.
Who
Above all else, 1LANGUAGE is for everyone and everything. Additionally, 1LANGUAGE is designed to facilitate unity in diversity, for people, organizations, things, uses, languages and cultures. The 1LANGUAGE initiative is supported by users, contributors, sponsors, implementers and members.
Learn more about the different groups of people, their interests and contributions that make 1LANGUAGE to what it is.