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"Cipher"
Neil Postman, in his *Technopoly*, asserts that the word "cipher" derives
ultimately from the Hindu word for void, and therefore "suggests the idea
of nothingness." (p 128) Does anyone else have info on the origin of this
word? Is Postman correct?
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