All movies, buildings, corporations, universities, factories, and housing started as ideas of the human brain. These ideas were written in text as concept, plan, or manual. The text became drawings, videos, audio, models. This multi-media format became final or physical products and facilities that generated profit.
Text is a starting point.
That is why I published 15,000 pages of text corporate plan and manuals to build our multi-trillion dollar scale corporations. When the pipe that transmits heavy data multi-media will be broader and cheaper. It will take a year or three depending on area globally covered by cable, wireless, satellite, DSL phone line, and utility. Many billions of dollars are pouring into the broadband infrastructure. That saves us time to organize many text based members.