So did Tim Berners-Lee. He was vehemently opposed to people shoehorning images into the WWW, because he didn't want it to turn into the equivalent of magazines. Which, I believe, he shared the opinion of them making society dumber.

Appropriately enough, I couldn't find a good quote to verify that since Google is only giving me newspapers and magazines talking about Sir Tim in the context of current events. I do believe it's in his book "Weaving the Web" though.