Shaping Realities: The Power of Language and Choice of Words

Join us as we delve into the transformative role of language, shedding light on how the strategic choice of words can fuel tech innovations and cultivate new ways of perception.

Hello and welcome to the first edition of Code Uncovered, your deep dive into the world of cultural significance and meanings—sent out every Cuesday*. 

Today we will talk about a topic that is extremely important in creating the future that we would like to see, which is something around us yet often overlooked in its power: language.

Language is not merely a tool for communication; it is the creator of our reality, the definer of spaces, the sculptor of ideas, and the key to innovation. As Nathaniel Hawthorne put it,

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

Language and our use of words can create, define and shape the things we see, perceive and think about in a way that changes significantly by our choice of words and langu…