Of course, without paper, humans will find other tools to spread culture, such as ancient bamboo slips and fabrics, but the cost is much more expensive and transportation and storage are much more troublesome. As for the electronic network and audio-visual storage, these are the developments and changes that occurred after the first appearance of paper.
Personally, I think that China invented paper in ancient times, no less than ancient humans discovered fire. Fire and paper are two major advances in human society. Fire comes from the understanding of nature, and it is the earliest natural force that human beings have mastered. It makes human beings enter the stage of cooked food, which is essentially different from wild animals. The emergence of paper has greatly promoted the communication between isolated nations, enabled all ethnic groups in the human world to understand each other and contact each other, realized * * * knowledge in a very wide range of fields, produced * * * songs, and finally walked out of the original ecological state and moved towards civilization and harmony.