Golekia-Embedded Everywhere!
By 2050 (prediction), the English language will make its first and last appearance in print. Technology will transform language, lifting it off the page and going viral with the world as its medium. Text, mediums, contextual framework, and any sense of form will change. No longer encased, trapped, or contained, the new “Golekia” language will be a “presence.” Technology will rapidly “jump” hypertext off the page, no longer seeking the archival safety of a hard drive, embedding, or containment. Golekia will liberate the world with free-flowing information. Interfaces will no longer be needed, as our world will become the contextual framework for words.
The theory of printed language dying is not a far-fetched concept. Looking back to our history, man has pushed language across every medium thanks to the technology within technology. Now, moving even faster, technology is preparing the print-bound world to end! Imagine the end of putting the pen to the paper, and pushing. Keyboards and text messaging will be rendered useless. This is evident as people are surfing, reading, and integrating information at such speeds, their brains show physiological changes. Digitalism no longer exists in a codified environment. Kalmbach (Professional Writing as Technologically Situated Action) suggests that as text flows off the page to the screen, designers need to anticipate the shape text will dictate (8). Will form or the medium change? He points out that the interaction between text and humans is not solidified in the future (8). Written language is forced to adapt, suggesting there is ever-present indicators that the semiotic relationship man has with text is evolving faster. Just as Gutenberg’s invention of the press catapulted the rapid evolution of the written word, the medium itself was never meant to linger. In the readings of Burbules (Rhetorics of the Web: Hyper reading and critical literacy), the idea that printed text is limited and can only possess so many words suggests limitations (103). Technology will not adhere to boundaries and neither will future generations.
Works Cited
Burbules, Nicholas. "Page to Screen: Taking Literary into the Electronic Era." Ed. Llana Snyder. Oct. 2001. Web. 28 Sept. 2010. .
Kalmbach, James. "Publishing Before Computers." 2002. Web. 28 Sept. 2010
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