Life without media

Life would be dramatically different without media, especially books and other kinds of writing.
We would know next to nothing about history. Without any murals or other kinds of artistic recordings, the only method of recording history would be oral traditions.
The ancient Babylonians set up huge stone pillars in their major cities inscribed with all the laws of their country. Without even this option available to us, country size would be confined to the reach of traveling heralds memorizing and announcing new laws. Even traffic laws (if, by some miracle, cars had been invented) would have to be passed on orally in the absence of traffic signs.
Technology advancements would be greatly stunted because without a fast and efficient way of passing on and sharing information, each tiny advance would take years.
The medical field would be vastly different; without reference manuals to consult, doctors would be limited to the not unimpressive information that they or their closest colleagues had memorized.
Higher learning would be restricted to those families who could afford to apprentice their children to an oral professor, and even then their learning would be confined to the information their brain could effectively store.
Without recording devices or players, music would only exist as people created it. Music would be primarily a communal experience rather than a private one.
For me, personally, in a world without media I would be phenomenally undereducated. As a poor kid, my parents would be unable to pay for my education and I would be unable to learn on my own. I would probably sing a very great deal whatever songs my family and neighbors sang and I had learned as I worked in whatever occupation my family had been involved in for the past twelve generations - an occupation they knew how to pass on. I would probably dream of a different life, but is unlikely that I would know enough about other lives and places to ever go and see them for myself. Media is a great instructor; without it it would be much more difficult to learn about far off places and things from the past.