Raymond Federman
	The Short Hops of Knowledge In the beginning knowledge did not move. It did not move because there were no means of transportation for knowledge. Therefore, knowledge did not go anywhere. It just stayed where it had been gathered and digested. Knowledge was static inside the one who had gained it, whatever that knowledge may have been, as for instance the knowledge of the innards of a rabbit, or more precisely of the skeleton of a rabbit, acquired by the one who hunted and killed that rabbit, and subsequently ate the dead animal. As the hunter devoured the rabbit, as the flesh was being ingested, the rabbit's skeleton was gradually being revealed to the hunter as knowledge. When the rabbit's flesh was completely eaten, the hunter had before him, in its actual form, even though the bones were no longer connected, the complete skeleton of the rabbit, but also inside of him, in a virtual form, a knowledge of the skeleton. It became clear to that hunter that knowledge, in order to be, must be digested physically and mentally. However, that abstracted knowledge of the rabbit's skeleton was useless until the hunter shared it with someone else. Unspread knowledge is dead knowledge. The virtual bones of the dead rabbit became knowledge only when transmitted to another consciousness. Knowledge that is static serves no purpose. Only when it is exchanged does it become relevant and functional, otherwise it simply remains non-knowledge. It is obvious then that knowledge must travel in order to become useful. Originally, to spread knowledge, let's say the knowledge of the rabbit's skeleton, it was necessary for the one who had gained that knowledge to move from