I like your premise Bob..
I make a similar point in my own humble essay, because I agree that Math knows things we have not learned yet. I also think that your point on the evolving efficiency of Math as a language is well taken, though I think the proof offered is a bit less than compelling. While it is true that our collective predictive capacity exceeds that of any one human, I am less than thrilled with the level of cooperation and collaboration I have seen.
In a lecture I attended by Gerard 't Hooft, he suggested that some important discoveries and advances may never come, unless we can achieve an order of magnitude more integration between people of different disciplines. He said that not only should we have Physics people of differing specialties talking problems through, but the discussion should also include Math folks, Computer programmers, Engineers, Technicians, and others.
In a lecture by Sau Lan Wu, she spoke of actually seeing that kind of cooperation at CERN, during the process that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson - where a large team of inter-disciplinary participants all contributed to the success of their efforts. But this is unfortunately an exception to the rule. While Math is a language that all these people could utilize, Bob; that makes them exceptional people, as well. I therefore see the applicability of Math and its usage among people as two separate issues.
All the Best,
Jonathan