> "Necessary" is an ill-defined and reductive way of looking at communication.
I took "If we want to be able to talk about it in text (like now), I want to be able to encode it in a standardized way" as implying that the two clauses were related to each other. Saying "if we want to be able to talk about it" means you're talking about what's necessary for that purpose.
I took "If we want to be able to talk about it in text (like now), I want to be able to encode it in a standardized way" as implying that the two clauses were related to each other. Saying "if we want to be able to talk about it" means you're talking about what's necessary for that purpose.