Had an interesting conversation today about the future of written language. In the future, it seem everything is going to go video. However, as the person I was talking to stated, you can't take a large scale project design and convert it to video because it would take a reader a long time to view and take in the information. This point was well taken, but, since I'm studying the origins of written language, I'm not sure that is an insurmountable issue. In the beginning, the problem with written language was storage. It was/is easier to remember less letters or pictographs. Today, however, we have unlimited storing of digital data and that solves a problem that has hindered language from being an exact replica of spoken or painted words. In short, pictographs can now be real images, given unlimited storage.
I'm still not totally sold on it, but I see no reason to discount video as the sole communication media in the future.