Actually, they turn out just like old expressions from the written/spoken language: they're there, we know what they mean, we just don't necessarily know why. I understand that someone might feel like it's quite the deal, but it's not something that hasn't ever happened before. We deal with it every day. Heck, entire language systems were "built" upon pictographic representations that aren't that obvious now. The only difference, I suppose, is the speed at which this is all happening; that we can actually see rather than imagine what it must have been like.
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Actually, they turn out just like old expressions from the written/spoken language: they're there, we know what they mean, we just don't necessarily know why. I understand that someone might feel like it's quite the deal, but it's not something that hasn't ever happened before. We deal with it every day. Heck, entire language systems were "built" upon pictographic representations that aren't that obvious now. The only difference, I suppose, is the speed at which this is all happening; that we can actually see rather than imagine what it must have been like.