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>Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated.

It will never stop being English/Latin alphabet dominated for the English (Americas, Australians, etc) though.

So, it's not like english web designers will see any major change in their work, or english web users...

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Well, I suspect we shall see words entering our lexicon from China - every right thinking 人 would agree :-)

Like in a Bladerunner/Neuromancer cross-culture like future. Maybe, maybe.

Don't forget Firefly!

I goram won't !

We've stolen a tremendous number of words with out adding arabic/hebrew/cyrillic/japanese/etc characters, I don't see any reason to assume we'll start with chinese.

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