Predictions of a New Language

So get this. Back in about 1993 I was working for a little publication run by a group of four forward-thinking young college kids. I was in college too. We were all 20somethings and ready to conquer the world. (I've been meaning to write this post for a long time and it keeps slipping my mind.)
They had this idea for a great newspaper that would cover the news in ways our local paper wouldn't and couldn't because it was one of those "real" and stuffy newspapers.
So we ran stories on local elected officials who were seen at the strip club placing dollar bills in the G-strings of lap dancers, corruption, and many other juicy stories. We were fearless. That paper also had entertainment, interesting photographs, and it was paid for by advertising. It was delivered free to drop racks throughout the region.
I give you that little bit of background just to set the scene for you.
Newspapers attract the people who need to be on medication. Not just the people who work for newspapers, but people in the community who go off their meds call us. They want to talk about all sorts of weird things, rant and rave, cuss and fight, or just drone on and on for sometimes an hour about everything their cat did that day and how their neighbor keeps peering over the fence, or a particular color keeps streaking across their television screen and they're sure the government is doing it to track their movements.
So back in about 1993, way before the Internet was in every home, before cell phones we use today,  and before text messaging was invented, we got a letter.
In this letter, this guy went on and on about a new language that was going to emerge. He spelled all the words in this letter the way he believed this language would take shape.
Here's an example, though I can't remember any of what the letter actually said verbatim.
U r shur 2 b n 4 a supris. It wil chng th wa we comunicat nd pepl wil stop riting n propr nglsh.
We all thought he must be a little wacky. Why would we all shortcut our words and make them garbled like that? Just to save time, he said. He claimed everyone was getting so busy and trying to do so many things at once that the common language was just going to be too much. Too many letters for people to use in each word, they'd shorten everything so they could get the message out faster. Gone would be the grammar rules.
I wish I had a copy of that letter. What a visionary. And we thought he was crazy.