Technically, Legion would agree, except they consider even more advanced forms of organic communication to be similarly inefficient. Despite this, organics have managed to build advanced societies and technologies and generally thrive: the Smeargles will do fine, they think.

"Your communication is similarly inefficient to us." Why spend hours telling someone what happened when you can just share the memory? Why deal with all these complicated methods of achieving understanding, of conveying emotions when you can link minds over networks and share perspectives directly?

"Perhaps instead of teaching them our methods of data exchange, we should put our efforts into learning theirs." Currently, the Smeargles use images, hence image based communication.

They look to the closest Smeargle."How would you draw joy?"