Dominic Wyse

I guess one of the downsides is that, say we wanted to look back over a whole series of events, we've got to spend a lot of time sitting and listening or viewing something

It is a feature of technical revolutions that people throw up their hands in horror at first.

But it's worth remembering that the fact that we even have phones, tablets, computers...

is as a result of humans developing writing.

Social media particularly has increased the amount of writing that humans do.

We're exchanging billions of words every day in order to get things done.

And we're not going to survive if we can't communicate.

But there's a lot we can do.

I'm thinking, for example, of the simple heart sign that's used so regularly now.

Maybe we'll have more systematic ways of combining these kind of emojis and images to create more complex meanings.

And what's AI going to do?

Yeah, it's dead.

I mean, AI, of course, is yet another proper revolution in terms of language and literacy.

It's built on analyses of language itself.

So AI is in trouble.

Unless we can have picture-based AI, that's reminded me also of...

the important place of graphic novels.

They are almost wordless books.

So we can do incredible things with pictures.

Yeah.