Abraham Lincoln had once stated the the invention of writing was perhaps the greatest invention of mankind in that it allowed the dead to speak to the living and the living to speak to generations yet unborn.
Today of course that invention is augmented with video and sound.
While I don’t neccessarily agree with George Carlin on everything he espoused, he was quite a social critic who made you laugh at the same time
He passed in 2008, yet he seems even more revelant today.