Over the past 50 years, has there been a social and cultural shift away from the verbal/textual and towards the visual? If so, has this shift accelerated during the past 10 to 20 years?
Yes, I believe there has been a shift away from verbal/textual and towards visual to some extent. I think that the advancements of technology make it easier to produce imagery in a much faster, much cheaper manner.
On a professional level, in the past 10 to 20 years, I think that while the quality of much imagery has increased, the quantity of it has not. However on a personal level, I think the quality has decreased because the quantity has increased. Visual text is now so disposable and replaceable it does not need to be good. The access people have to technology now also makes it easier to take a photo of something to remember it rather than write or talk about it.
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