Tag: language

• Arrival of the Babel Fish

  July 4, 2019

  In the very near future, maybe in ten years, we’ll have earpods that will do real time language translation. Someone speaks Greek to you, and with the slightest delay, you’ll… more ›

• Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue

  April 13, 2019

  The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html more ›

• How the humble, all-purpose thumbs-up took over…

  April 8, 2018

  How the humble, all-purpose thumbs-up took over the world » If you’d asked me to do a trends report 20 years ago I doubt it would have said much about… more ›

• Algorithmic Life

  February 6, 2017

  Algorithmic Life » Algorithms are changing the worlds we inhabit — and they’re changing us. They pop up in op-eds on weighty topics like the future of labor in an… more ›

• Forget drones and spaceships: The Snapchat dogface…

  November 7, 2016

  Forget drones and spaceships: The Snapchat dogface filter is the future » So, Snap Inc. is going to be the next great tech IPO. Rumor has it that the company… more ›

• Science fiction is a literature about the way…

  January 7, 2014

  “Science fiction is a literature about the way things *aren’t,*” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›

• We’ve got dialogue conventions that work on a…

  January 7, 2014

  “We’ve got dialogue conventions that work on a page, but we don’t have any SMS conventions. They’re inelegant. The result is that literary language loses vitality. It’s out of touch… more ›

• It’s hard to write fiction about technology…

  January 7, 2014

  “It’s hard to write fiction about technology because the structure of language is mutating.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›