Always Bet on Text (2014)
Text is not the oldest - nor easiest to use -, text is a heavy abstraction born somewhat recently in human history.<p>The oldest and easiest is the visual in 3D, then comes the visual in 2D.<p>Those exist since we have eyes.<p>Our brain have dedicated and sizeable infrastructure for that. Children can communicate in 3D (gestures, posture, expressions, objects) and in 2D drawings before learning textural communication with great effort.<p>Text is more regular and reliable in certain contexts (not always, sometimes a pictogram or others are better), when the circumstances are proper for that.<p>Text has its uses, just like all the other forms, not being paramount, not at all!<p>(I&#x27;d also argue about that we could read old texts. Sometimes yes, but sometimes we cannot read present ones neither if the cultural and knowledge background is inadequate. Which is just aggravated by the ages)