Reminds me of Book from the Ground[1], a novel written entirely in pictograms. The intent is to write a story that any person - even someone who's illiterate - can read. I should mention that it can really only be made legible to sighted people, which is a shortcoming it shares with many attempts to create programming languages for non-programmers. That said it's remarkably successful. But the story is extremely simple, a side effect of the author's choice to use a form of expression that cuts expressivity to the bone. As an exploration and mental exercise it's fascinating. But I don't think it heralds a major change in how we communicate nowadays, even across language boundaries.

[1] http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/always-pioneer-artist-xu-bi...