I do think there are many benefits to using text, and often plain ASCII (without formatting) is suitable, too. It is not always better, but very often it is. I

I do think there are many benefits to using text, and often plain ASCII (without formatting) is suitable, too. It is not always better, but very often it is. I still use Usenet and NNTP and IRC, and many documents I write as written as plain text documents. It is true, text is usually much more efficient than other formats. The files can be smaller and take less time to transfer, too. Also unlike videos you can easily read it whatever speed and direction you want to do. Printed copies of documents also is useful and I usually make handwritten notes. I will usually prefer to have a transcript rather than a audio file, too. Searching can work better with text than using audio/video, and so can making logs of changes. In computer files, the end user can change the fonts if desired. Like mentioned in the linked article, you can have annotations, etc. Some computer games are text-adventure games without graphics, or with optional graphics. Yes, I really think that text is usually much better than others.