Will Touchscreen Gestures Change The Way We Communicate?

How will the swipe, the slide, the tap and the pinch enter our wider forms of communication?

Tapping, swiping, pressing, or just pointing at a phone? Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash

It was eight in the morning. Ahead of me on the street, someone was waving at me. Or they seemed to be waving at me. It was early and I was still waking up, so I wasn’t sure. It wasn’t the normal wave of a “hello”…