I tried to use a Canon to send a fax one time, but I think I did it wrong. The paper didn't go very far, and it ended up a bit burnt.
Now, your mistake there was in your choice of medium rather than tools. You needed to go with a more conventional medium like, say, stone or iron. That way the message travels much further and has a much greater impact upon receipt. Indeed, the right medium can result in your co-respondent requiring a medium.

The only problem I have with this argument is...
I think you missed my point there, probably because I didn't make it clearly enough. I wasn't trying to suggest that, because you can use binary, you should. Rather I was trying to dismiss the "What can you produce in X that I can't produce in Y" question. You see that asked wherever folks are arguing over whether one technology has supplanted another. Those arguing for the apparently supplanted tech will ask that question because it appears to show that there's nothing to be gained from the new tech but it's a smoke screen. New technologies rarely allow us to produce something new, they just allow us to produce the same things quicker/better/more reliably and that's where I felt the debate would be better focussed.