I see text only as one of the mediums to transport a message. And I see it in the future it could be easily translated to audio, video, and why not sets of images-better-than-housand-words. Information will flow in ways we can not even imagine, it will be transportable across different mediums the same way is transportable across different languages. Still, there will be certain mediums and languages that will be better suited to transport certain type of information. Who knows...