Imagine a world without writing. How does it look? There would be no globalization since there are no advances in technology. There would be no technology since there are no inventions. There’s no innovation, no recordkeeping or any of what we know as recorded history. Everything is passed by mouth, which wouldn’t be that bad if memory was better and there’s no adulteration from one person to the next.
Writing isn’t a new form of communication. Although it only began in Sumer in 3500–3000 BCE, it has since served more than its intended purpose of recording and communication for trade. Overtime, and in every civilization after the Sumerians, writing became the medium to chronicling history, enhancing education, laying down laws, and vividly entertaining, among others.