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English to Chinese: How will the communication of the future be? General field: Other
Source text - English How will the communication of the future be?
1. We live in a time of “immediate sharing”
Today, very few of us will go to a concert without taking a video or a picture. Messaging apps and social networks allow us to share the moment while we’re actually living it. Suddenly, the experience belongs not only to you and the friends with whom you’ve physically gone to the concert, but also to the contacts on your social networks. And not only that, we can even broadcast our experience live using any streaming app available. We will have more experiences than any of our predecessors, it’s just that we’ll have them through others. Experiences are complete when we share them with our communities, and this leads to us reducing our communication with the people around us.
2. Interpersonal communications will disappear
Social interaction is important but often complex as people take in face to face communication in different ways (through tone, facial expression, words etc.). However today, instead of spending time in person with friends, we are consistently choosing to communicate via online mechanisms such as applications like Facebook, IMessage, Snapchat and Instagram. These four are only some of the new ways that offer ways of interaction and engagement allowing us to be as physically close to one another as possible in a virtual world. They do this by allowing us to send voice message, photos, videos and video call online as well as send text messages. However, the biggest difference: conversations that happen over technology lack content. You never really know when someone is being sarcastic, funny, or serious.
3. We’ll know a lot about you before even talking to you
Simply by accessing your personal profile on Facebook or Instagram, for example, we’ll have a good idea as to one’s likes, where they’ve travelled, what music they listened to, etc. This is a generation that will have access to a whole lot more personal information on their contacts that we ever had. And also, the way in which they interact will also be different. Perhaps there will be greater acceptance and respect for everyone, or perhaps people will choose their friends before even talking to them.
4. The widespread use of emojis, a kind of modern-day Esperanto?
Today we use some of these symbols for transmitting emotions, sensations or feelings. It is used often for gaining greater interaction in our publications and to reinforce our messages. But we wonder if we are using them in a grammatically correct manner? Does the full stop go before or after the emoji? No doubt the rapid rise in the use of emojis in the written language will require new rules to be drawn up. It seems that we can never get enough of those funny icons. And the latest research shows more than 80% of adults in the UK now use them in their text messages, while a whopping 40% admit to having created a message composed entirely of emojis.
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