> But let's hit the random button on wikipedia and pick a sentence, see if you can draw a picture to convey it, mm? To be needlessly pedantic, my computer drew

> But let's hit the random button on wikipedia and pick a sentence, see if you can draw a picture to convey it, mm? To be needlessly pedantic, my computer drew the image that conveyed this to me. Less pedantically text is a medium of exchange for language, and a lossy one just like spoken word. I think there's a lot of power in its flexibility due to that lossiness. It's also one of its subtle weaknesses - we can read text from 5,000 years ago, but there's going to be much debate over understanding the text because of how much context has been lost to time.