Design Strategies for the Digital Economy

One thing that is not addressed is the fact that all written languages on earth are #1 Obsolete , #2 Inadequate in efficiency . #3 do not reflect the true way that the majority of the culture/people actually speak . They were put together and developed so long ago , sometimes with ill intent ( such as English deliberately being difficult in order to try to avoid a literate , educated , and worst of all the the medieval mind , a questioning population . ) that badly need to be restructured to reflect not only the faster more mobil lifestyle of modern people in the 21st century , but as the modern language is used and actually spoken . A written and spoken language has one purpose and one purpose only , COMMUNICATION . Written languages need to be simple , fast , and efficient or they have failed . We write for the sole purpose of wanting to communicate and be understood , the written language should reflect that , instead of it evolving we still have idiotic structures , rules , etc. that not only need to be re-thought or eliminated , but read like German Naval codes instead of logical efficient communication to those from other nations/cultures learning it . This may be one reason some people refuse to learn a language as they start , then stop saying to themselves " this is stupid ! " .... Yes it is ....... how about an idea that hasn't been tried until we switched from old english to what we have now .... FIX IT !

ok.. here is the problem. sounding like a guru of all things media and the web... yet you fail at the two most annoying things about the internet.

1) multiple pages
this is the internet. no one wants to click though these pages. i made it to two before you bored me to death.

2) too much information
There is way to much information. are you familiar with TL;DR? Learn it. I spent more time critiquing your article than I did reading it. Maybe you can copy paste that into your boring article generator the next time you want to regurgitate information that is already common sense/available elsewhere on the internet that you are speaking of.

tl;dr: don't quit your day job. this article is boring.

I don't consider myself a great writer, speller or grammarian, but find the argument that writing has improved with the advent of new technology arguable. I now frequently see glaring mistakes in web content. Ironically, Art Bistro wasn't even capable of creating a functional link to langtoncherubino.com in this article!

I would venture to say the business card stays!

Actually the perception that writing is a growing phenomena is quite misleading. Yes there are more people today texting, twittering, and using other quick fix messages but this isn't intelligent writing. The statement that students today write for an audience, makes no sense at all, based on the idea being previously unheard of. Even a diary is for an audience as are graffiti tags although that does concur that it is important to know who your writing to or for. I don't mean to quibble but part of my point is that if a study was made, one would distinctly see the differences between the vocabulary & sentence construction of people who actually frequent a pen 1, people who often type letters and documents 2, and the twitter, text and chat crowd 3. Baby names even show these differences!