Conclusions

Abstract

The premise for writing this book has been my quest to find common features of communication in our life on Earth and to understand the role communication has played in the development of social and economic behavior across species. But more than this, while writing this book, I have discovered that if we understand much better the fundamentals of communication in life and society, we can potentially design hybrid natural-computational languages that would better fit the needs of the technological advancements in artificial intelligence (will we still be able to communicate with autonomous AI?), in biotechnology (cells communicating with digital devices and vice versa or genetic programming) as well as to get a glimpse of the future of our own species: we are moving towards fewer and fewer, but more global languages and we are trying more and more to cross the interspecies barrier in communication.