Ben Thompson, from his recent interview with Daniel Gross Nat Friedman:
And text is inherently a good match with deterministic thinking, because you can lay down explicitly what you mean. Yes, you don’t have the person’s internal monologue and thoughts, but they can articulate a whole lot of what is important and get that down on the page and walk you through their logic chain. And text lets you do that to a much greater sense than images. Images, a lot of it is your interpretation of the image. It’s you perceiving what it is. And interestingly, from a biological perspective, vision itself is probabilistic, right? That’s why you get those optical illusions, because your brain is filling in all the different pieces that go into it.
And this makes me wonder, maybe the real difference between deterministic computing and probabilistic computing is in fact the difference between text-based computing or text-based thinking and visual-based thinking. And this visual stuff is in fact not just a toy, it’s not just out there first because it’s easier to do. It actually might be the future of all of this.