On Visual Culture in the Future

Only after reading the chapter on the globalization of visual culture have I realized that it really has been a recent thing for the "visual medium" to be the preferred medium of the world. This I think is from the creation of the internet/television. Everything is on a screen now: computers, television, and even cellphones have a very interactive screen (if not two). Even the way we listen to music, from Walkman to CD Player to iPod. The iPod has a screen, it provides something to be looked at just like the rest of our recent innovations. Also, I've noticed people preference of moving images to still images. Like movies to comic books or the fact that animated items are considered more techniclogically advanced. In the future, I won't be surprised to see billboards on the highway that are just big 30 second commercials. People like pictures over words, colored over black/white, and the moving over the still. The term visual culture would probably cease to exist as everything will be accompanied by visuals.