# APIs Can Decouple Business Information and Resources

**Author:** kinlane  
**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2011/12/25/apis-can-decouple-business-information-and-resources/

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I'm reading [The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375423729/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=kila0a-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0375423729) right now. So far its a great read. Very thought provoking stuff.

I just read this passage on how the first dictionary transformed the way we were able to think about, understand and re-use words:

> _...the meaning of words come from other words. It implies that all words come from other words, taken together, form an interlocking structure: interlocking, because all the words are defined in terms of other words. This could never have been an issue in an oral culture, where language was barely visible. Only when printing_