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28 October 2008
A 3-minute fairy tale of mixed emoticons: Rives on TED.com
Slam poet Rives (star of the Bravo special Ironic Iconic America) tells a typographical fairy tale that’s short and bittersweet. (Recorded February 2008 at TED@Aspen, in Aspen, Colorado. Duration: 3:17.)
Watch Rives’ 2008 performance on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 300+ TEDTalks — including more talks about love.
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David Lockman
Once again, Rives does a magnificent job of taking our assumptions about language and standing them on their heads. We tend to forget that language is a living, growing, changing thing, holding on to the familiar forms even after they are no longer useful. Movable type has existed for centuries; typewriters for more than a hundred years; why are emoticons such a recent development? What new forms of expression will the next 20 years bring?