Group and Individual Presentations

There are far more detailed posts about the group presentations, and the individual presentations done so far. I'd much rather talk about the implications.
Almost every presentation done so far links the theme of the class, "All that is Past Possesses our Present".
The real question is why. Is there some subconcious need to imitate ancient stories? No. The real reason is simply that there are a limited number of stories that can be told. Too many stories, even atempting to be original, will eventually overlap into repitition. Stories today reflect the older more fundemental stories simply becasue our lives are still conducted in somewhat the same manner, and so the variety of those stories being lived still have some connections to Greek mythology and classical literature.
So is my original post now ruined, bogged down in falsehoods?
In a word, no.
The world has changed more in the last 300 years that it has changed in the last ten thousand years. The question is, are those changes simply mechanisms to extend human nature or are those changes capable of modifying human nature?
The question of the digital age.
If human nature is modified by technology, then those fundemental stories will have less and less impact as time goes on. Eventually, they will seem distant and alien and unrelatable to the common man.
If technology simply extends our grasp and our nature, then those stories will seem more and more prevelent.
I hold with change. The advent of digital media, thinking computers is going to fundementaly change the way in which we conduct our lives. If I so chose, I could never have any contact with humans. I could order my groceries online, have them delivered. I can bank online, work online, live online.
Why hasn't this already occured? Why has this change not yet fully come to realization?
Humans resist change. They resist it to the point where they only truly embrace it when it becomes far to obvious to ignore it. It usually takes the new generation to truly integrate new technologies into societies.
So eventually, I do think new stories, ungrounded in classical literature will crop up. I think they're here now. What stories occur when society advances to the point that they lack miscomunication, death, or inequity?
I'm completly unsure.
Thats the thing about truly new things. No one can ever be sure about them.