Personally, I'm not strong enough or fast enough. To use tools and work in groups we have to know things. Otherwise, we're pretty useless. Think of it as storing and transmitting information. First, let's make sure we agree on what we mean by information.
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
Information came into being at the cusp between orality and literacy, a singular moment that cannot itself be understood unless we first consider the nature of the oral culture that literacy would transform. In this oral world, memory functioned in sharp contrast to the way we literates conceive of it, not as a container for information but as a participatory act, commemoration, serving to maintain social consensus. The emotional power and immediacy of this activity prevented its participants from distinguishing between the content and the experience of commemoration in any consistent manner. Only with this distinction did the mental objects we call information come into being, and only then could memory become a container for them. The information revolution born of literacy is all the more stunning and revolutionary when seen in start relief against an oral world where information did not exist.