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It amuses me to think we have moved from the printed word back to hieroglyphs (emoji). Not in a derogatory way, communication is communication, but in a awe of
by fdye 8y ago
It amuses me to think we have moved from the printed word back to hieroglyphs (emoji). Not in a derogatory way, communication is communication, but in a awe of older cultures. I like the thought experiment of imagining a fallen advanced civilization in Egypt. I imagine them stuck... watching their batteries drop to 0%, and turning to stone and emoji as the only way to persist communication.
What if printed words were really just a transitional state of language until their purest form, emoji!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoTo a certain extent, one could consider Chinese characters to be more like emoji than words constructed via a phonetic alphabet, in which case there never really was a transition period, just some backwater outliers.
- _nosaj 8y agoThe Ancient Egyptians also used base 2 multiplication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplicatio...