Human Bond Communication Beyond 2050

This chapter discusses the origin of communication ever since the birth of the human or its predecessors on this earth. In the modern era of communication, we are witnessing a paradox of people on one side being more and more into communication platforms and applications that should provide all the opportunities in the world to exchange information in increasingly efficient ways, and on the other side the choices made by us as network customers for the platforms that only use the least significant parts of the messages (i.e. text). While only about 7% of the total information is included in the text, sound (intonation, volume, speed tonality, and so on) and video (body language, eyes, and so on) convey 38% and 55%, respectively. The other three human senses (touch, smell and taste) are completely excluded. We analyze the quality of experience with different senses and media, and try to answer the question why younger generations communicate increasingly more through a ‘low quality’ medium (such as text) than voice and video, when we know that so much information is lost in translation and in the absence of other senses. We discuss how this would influence our societies in the long‐term. We also dwell into the technology aspects of the various telecommunications platform, including its requirements, and the some of the major social media platforms. Finally, we make some future predictions by establishing a link between the past, present and the mega trends happening in the market and how societies are evolving their communication behavior.