Strange symbols: Building in the Age of AI

We're in the midst of the third great technological transition since 1990. What sticks?

How would Dick (or Jane) Tracy work on an unsolved case if all the clues were in hieroglyphics, and what’s more those hieroglyphics where on a glowing screen? Let’s assume for the moment that Tracy isn’t an Egyptologist, nor is Tracy into UFO’s.

Put another way: what meaning can be made when both the symbols and the technology used to display those symb…