Read a book called "Information is beautiful" the other day.

Still don't know what to think of it;

Information, thanks to designers and graphic artists, is indeed prettier than an ordnary word-oriented person like me could ever imagine.

But at the same time, the information presented was of nebulous origins and dubious accuracy, and quite frankly a bit  vain - anecdotique, in French.

And then, the purpose of the book is to show different ways to organize information, so the actual information is not that much relevant. But when will it be?

Complex information isn't some Aristotle-esque logic. How can you graphically translate it? And if you show your talent using meaningless data to go faster and be easier to read, it not an incentive to try it on complex thoughs and ideas.

Words are arbitrary - they don't relate to anything in the material world - a cat can be called a gato or a chat, but it still the same thing -  there was a choice once to call it a cat.

And "cat" does not represent only one animal, but every individual of that species - something pictures and pictograms can't do.

Words can represent things that do not have any material equivalent - truth, future, possibles, emotions.

Graphic info is beautiful.

140 characters are fast and easy to read.

But, because the world is more complex than that, there is still place for meaning.

And thus, words still matter.