We still have food gatherers and hunters, we certainly have an extensive agricultural enterprise and we have a very well developed industrial structure and the cities to illustrate its development. Now, the connected world will usher in massive changes in all aspects of our life. Writing A story teller, above all, is an orator who holds the audience, someone who is persuasive, convincing. People have always flocked to such a charismatic leader, willingly giving the orator control over their destiny. A definitive version is created, there is only one true explanation.
Dogma replaces improvisation.
But, above all, power shifts from story teller to scribe and scholar. Might have been a flop. Comedian trying to write a book is often not successful. Writing is a rather simple and, to us, obvious technology. Yet, the world was changed forever with the use of writing, and centuries later printing, especially after the advent of moveable type.