Apparently people are having trouble with this: just because it's binary doesn't mean you can't read it. It just means you can't read it with the tools you already have on your computer. We would have to build the editing tools to read and modify whatever data format comes out of this, but we can do that and it won't be that hard.

I think we should do it anyway. I dream of a composable, computable data format that can represent anything and be sent anywhere. We could build web apps with it. We could make desktop data formats with it. I know it's ambitious, but I don't think it's impossible. I'm not expressing it terribly well because it's late. But I think this is a good idea.