alt Hacker News> But let's hit the random button on wikipedia and pick a sentence, see if you can draw a picture to convey it, mm?
The inverse is also difficult. Pick a random 15 second movie clip, how to describe it using text without losing much of its essence? Or can one really port a random game into a text version? Can a pilot fly a plane with text-based instrument panel?
Text is not a superset of all communication media. They are just different.
Commercial aviation involves mostly textual interaction[1] to determine what the aircraft does, for most of the time. Aviation is rife with plain text, usually upper case for better legibility[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAM