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| Paleolithic lingua franca |
A
question is raised in a symposium…
A: Those are all word-based languages. But a lot of messages exchanged are now still images or video clips. The files are no
longer just TXT but include anything delivered in JPEG or MP4.
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Voice-over
Sergey Brin while wearing Google Glass received
a text message asking what he was doing. He sent a picture taken as seen
through his glasses. He replied to the text message by sending a picture. As the number of
graphic images sent by messaging increase, and the number of text-based
messages decrease, is language exchange changing? Are some stories reverting to
images?
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