On stage at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail - http://aeoud.com/ - I tell a dramatised and extremely shortened history of emoji, run through what's coming up in 2016, and have a look at what might be coming up for them soon. Also, I use the word "dysentry". Thanks to the Festival of the Spoken Nerd team for inviting me, and to the lovely audience and crew at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green! And thanks to Matt Parker for the introduction: you can see him at null 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ null ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: null 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: null And hey! You can hire me to speak at your conference! http://tomscott.com/contact/ With thanks to Emojipedia, who allow reuse of the mockup image from this page: http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-emoji-updates/