Gonzalo Contento

Software engineer. Writing about tech, mythology, and everything in between.

Thinker, not prose stylist. The ideas are mine; the articulation is assisted by AI — an honest arrangement, as old as the first scribe.

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From Hieroglyphs to Emoji — The Return of Images in the Age of Text
July 28, 2026
From Hieroglyphs to Emoji — The Return of Images in the Age of Text
Writing does not progress in a straight line from image to abstraction; it oscillates, and emoji are the latest swing back toward the pictorial.
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