I love the mood that you are describing. I do think that it would still be valuable to have some amount of pressure towards shared concepts and symbols, but it really could be a lot less.
One already common example is that in the past decades many small languages and cultures have been on the decline due to shared concepts just being too useful such that most young people just don’t learn the local language in the first place.
I am also reminded of the quote (not sure of the origin), “nowadays, walking around in any big city across the world kind of feels the same”, and now I start to imagine how much more vibrant culture could be and feel if interfaces were fluid.
I love the mood that you are describing. I do think that it would still be valuable to have some amount of pressure towards shared concepts and symbols, but it really could be a lot less.
One already common example is that in the past decades many small languages and cultures have been on the decline due to shared concepts just being too useful such that most young people just don’t learn the local language in the first place. I am also reminded of the quote (not sure of the origin), “nowadays, walking around in any big city across the world kind of feels the same”, and now I start to imagine how much more vibrant culture could be and feel if interfaces were fluid.