Thomas Jones-Low wrote:

	The other interesting idea to borrow more from _Arrival_ is to have the
	ideograph modify itself through time. So a glyph would modify person -> building
	-> child (a teacher).

This sounds a lot like Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated
Primer", which is an excellent book, but not, I think, very Travelleresque.

Jonathan