Language and written language are themselves technologies that change what individuals can do (and thus impact their societies)

There is a well-known story about this discussed in Radiolab [2010] https://radiolab.org/podcast/91725-words/transcript

Here's ChatGPT summarizing one section:

> Younger signers had developed a richer vocabulary for mental states—concepts like believe, remember, forget, understand. They were much better than the original older signers at tasks requiring them to reason about what another person thinks or knows. Later, as the older signers picked up those mental-state terms from younger people, some of them improved on the same tests. Senghas describes it as language giving them new insight into other people’s thinking and motivations.

I see several likely stories:

* Much animal communication is practical, descriptive of the present (nothing abstract, or very few abstract concepts)

* If a species could expand its communication, it would give it more powerful tools and allow for more meaningful conversation with humans

* If such a thing is possible, it will be extremely disruptive to that species

I think if you could communicate about abstract ideas with your dog, you could exchange bedtime stories. However, I don't think such a thing is possible today, and it's not clear what species (if any, besides humans) will, in fact, be able to learn such things

Communication is a two-way street, with both parties negotiating and evolving some "communication protocol" over time. We won't know how far we'll be able to go until we're able to try.