Staying human in an ASCII world

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/fashion/29emoticon.html? 
pagewanted=1&_r=1

Why am I sending this to the Design List?

Graphical User Interfaces for widgetry and functionality is not  
enough. The content that we work with should be more graphical. The  
reason why we're feeling overloaded by too much information is  
because we're trying to consume all of it as text. We are built to  
process lots of information...but as images, not text.

Perhaps that's another reason why myspace is more compelling than  
email for Gen Y and younger. In addition to being more fun, pictures,  
video, music and text combine to create a more efficient way to keep  
up with friends than text-based email.

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