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December 12, 2005
USB Glyphs
There's something beautiful about some of the glyphs we use in electronics to denote different functions. For example the firewire symbol created by Apple(?), or the universal icon that means power on/off. There's elegance in their simplicity but 1000 years from now, if our records or lost to time, what will future sentients see? How will they interpret our iconography.
Furthermore, perhaps our own interpretations of ancient glyphs are completely incorrect. For all of our complex explanations, perhaps it was the simplest one that was correct. Maybe the classic "eye of ra" glyph in ancient Egyptian history literally is just an eye.
Take a lookie at the USB symbol now universally recognized as the symbol of data transfer and power. It is an extension of our electronic devices thereby bridging them together so they can communicate.
BUT, in 1000 years, a human who has no idea what USB means may interpret this as what - an ancient map? Perhaps to lost cities that once scaled the planet in width and height? From different perspectives, it could mean a lot of things.
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Posted by: You S Bee at June 10, 2006 4:30 PM