¹ Leading 1's having been suppressed, of course.

² Well, that's not entirely true. I did have a number called a Social Security number which I often include in my lectures on “Oxymorons of the Twenty-First Century.”

³ Before amalgamation, there were a variety of languages, nationalities, economic systems, religions, etc.

⁴ They will therefore have to make extensive use not only of the historical record but also of transposition codes in the pre-amalgamation babellingual archives where, if I say so myself, many words I coined are to be found.

⁵ Aside, of course, from the few obligatory replicated organs here and there.

⁶ A catchy phrase from the ancient theocracy.

⁷ I can't remember the last time someone was convicted of committing engineered obsolescence.

⁸ They had no idea that all their efforts to safely store nuclear waste, to clean up the environment and eliminate industrial pollution, to understand the cosmos and populate a tiny corner of it, to harness new sources of energy, and so forth and so on, would be obviated when those precocious genomists introduced selective discretionary human spedation.

⁹ And some would say with a lower case s as well!

¹⁰ Of course nobody actually wrote by that time and all the walls were graffiti-proof anyway.

¹¹ Actually under water, but thaf s another story.

¹² Leave it to the physical types to decide that their movement was so complex that “impedance” was a more accurate term than “resistance.” That was, as it turned out, sadly prophetic, for over time the movement did become fully imaginary.

¹³ They originally called it the “grand unification,” until someone exposed that term's ancient physical connotation.

¹⁴ I do recall, however, that I had many friends whose personalities presaged each of these variants.

¹⁵ They would, in fact, find our substitution of mutuality for adversarialism, in a word, wimpy. (See Fellman, Gordon, Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival, [State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, AD 1998]Google Scholar, after uncounted reprintings, of course.)

¹⁶ The latter group undoubtedly constituting the bulk of your subscribers.

¹⁷ My progenitors had no convenient word for the “ten-thousand things” (of Lao Tsu's Too Te Ching) or ten thousand of anything for that matter, so the prefix man- derived from the ancient Japanese crept into the lexicon. (Manium is apparently a lazy contraction of the unwieldy mannennium that, thanks to amalgamation, has survived to this day.)