Computer graphics, are we forcing people to evolve?

computer graphics industry is changing our world in a massive and basic way, moving from a world in which " written word " communication is our primary method, into a new era of " imagery " communication. This ability to communicate with images is changing how and what people are capable of thinking. There is a conceptual model that says that the language you think in, limits the very ideas that you can think. If you accept the idea that discourse using images is a language; then you may begin to appreciate the change to our culture as large numbers of people increasingly use images to express themselves. The last time humans communicated graphically (in any major way) was many thousands of years ago. We had communal, non-hierarchical, " partnership " cultures. You communicated with gestures, expressions, smells, and drawings/pictures. As the written word supplanted images as a " stored " method of communicating; our mode of thinking, the very ideas we could think, changed. We developed into " dominator " cultures with a " left-brain " , serial, linear, written-word style of communicating. You could say we had become one-sided in our thinking. Some cultures still retained the use of gestures for dialogue; but as the bulk of our communications became written, we gradually lost the ability to express ourselves with images. There have been a few people who retained that ability, they were called artists (nowadays we call them graphic artists, and sometimes even computer graphic artists.) This raised a problem, because life is not a linear narrow line, it is a wide and constantly unraveling yarn with much texture, strands flying in and out; a gestalt. Today, with television, movies, CD-ROM, and now images over the network, we are bombarded with ever increasing amounts of data both written and graphic. Yet , in the written word, we have both an ineffectual method of processing it, and a limited method of expressing whatever conclusions we come up with after studying the data. The written word that we use is really an agreement to assume that we are discussing the same thing. If I say " picture an apple " , you nod your head yes and we continue the discussion; BUT you were not seeing the same apple that I was thinking about. Now if I show you a picture of a bright red " Granny Smith " …