Forbes has a special report on communication. With among others Chomsky interviewed on language, and Jane Goodall as well. Cerf on the internet, and Kurt Vonnegut on telling a story:

[R]eading it is actually quite difficult–I mean it is as hard as learning to read music, and it’s a remarkable skill. And if you take ink on paper and make people respond to it, they themselves are going to have to be performers. It’s like arriving at a concert hall and being handed a violin, and you’re expected to play. That’s what we expect readers to do, perform themselves, because they’re half of the performance.