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Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by fdye on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:23PM (#17233179)
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!

Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by _nosaj on Saturday June 09, 2018 @03:08PM (#17274488)
The Ancient Egyptians also used base 2 multiplication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplicatio...

Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:23PM (#17234214)
To 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.