History shows us how the evolution of communications technologies directly affects human languages and cultures. So what does the future hold?
I will outline a historical/ evolutionary/ linguistic context within which to discuss ideas for the future development of the internet and other technologies - and the implications these ideas have for human development.
My overall idea is built around the characteristics which distinguish human language from animal communication: displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural transmission, discreteness, and duality.
From a wide-ranging exploration of the history and evolution of human language, culture, and communications technology; via programming languages, machine translation, philosophy, sci-fi, music, and literature; into a future of visual language, nano, bio and communications technology, with a touch of cognitive science.
Or to put it another way: what do George Orwell, the Bible, Kraftwerk and ROFLCOPTERS have in common?
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