Lucy Irving's Ambiguous Icons post raises an interesting point about icon design: the problem of ambiguity and the fact that, often, words are simply better.
This is, of course, bad news for iconfu, but I'll get over it.
I agree, I think there will always be ambiguity. What's interesting though is that the pool of unambiguous icons is growing - 
, for example, is pretty universal; other fairly universal concepts are 
for "favourite", 
for "search", and 
for "save".
This kind of convergence is inevitable, as the most popular websites prefer the most unsurprising UI elements. At the same time, the convergence will be organic rather than committee-driven, because it's a process of people looking around to see what other people are doing.
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