The earliest known writing is accounting. Perhaps civilization couldn't really get going without an impartial record for credit, since economic cooperation unde

The earliest known writing is accounting. Perhaps civilization couldn't really get going without an impartial record for credit, since economic cooperation underlies it? I think we could do pretty well in other fields - much knowledge is unwritten "know-how", and oral traditions are crucial in all modern fields. Plus nmenomic techniques as for epic poetry, people practicing memory more, and even evolutionary selection for memory, andof course, those few eidetic memory would become prized. Perhaps we'd have simpler, more effective technology, bureaucracy, laws, science etc too? After all, bigger highways worsen traffic jams, and the paperless office led to more paper!