This short animation examines how social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades.
Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture of brain-computer interfaces and artificial intelligence mean that we’ll soon be able to talk to each other via computer-enabled technology? And what will all this mean for issues such as privacy, surveillance and the future shape of society?
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A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
English in the world today
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