Digital compression means we can have 500 channels of Gilligan's Island . We can watch it ina hundred different languages. They are demanding a multi-cultural world for themselves and for the availability of that master narrative to the curious. Five hundred channel future affords that freedom. Television series in the future will continue to feature narratives.
Literature teaches a sense of worth.
To see your own story in words is a wonderful thing. To see your own story retold is to touch your own immortality, what little of that which we can get. Novels like Roots and Beloved make us all feel what slavery was like for that person. All literature teaches us what we are worth. Albert Camus said death is a wind coming from the future.