/abbr>: element selectors, class selectors, and so on. With JavaScript, the coupling is handled through the vocabulary of the <span id="Document%20Object%20Model">Document Object Model</span>, or <abbr>DOM</abbr>.</p>

<p>In a later book, <cite id="The%20Clock%20Of%20The%20Long%20Now">The Clock Of The Long Now</cite>, Stewart Brand applied the idea of shearing layers—or pace layers—to civilisation itself. The slowest moving layer is nature, then there’s culture, followed by governance, then infrastru