[ctkrohn]

This is comes up in Charles Stross's novel "Accelerando." He imagines a relatively near future where children grow up speaking partially synthetic languages. It's one of my favorite novels; you can read it online, too: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

Stross is also an occasional commenter here on HN.

[akkartik]

Crazy and hilarious to think Twitter didn't exist then, and the only web 2.0 term to make it in was 'blog'.