L-o-nguage

I want to speculate about the future of language in all its aspects — the tech, the sociology, the politics, and the chat.

I’ve spent a long time looking at the evolution of language tech (from ancient scripts via typewriters to LLM language models) and I want to focus on how decisions might be made for the next generation of tech, and whether these plans are any use in an exponential growth age.

Most talk about language and the future is either ill-informed, or composed of sci-fi maybe’s, or fear about AI and global political hysterics.

I’d like to invest in serious reflection on what could be modeled, analyzed, rejected, or designed that might go beyond the obvious stories — one universal language, massive translation, language on trips to outer space, and the like.

So watch this space for a series of thought pieces on long-uage — tongue firmly in cheek — for language in the long now…