We tend to discard the past... You probably know the proverb which says that unless we learn from history, we are bound to repeat it.
I believe the Bible as generally an historic documentation - no matter what genre it is written in - has profound significance yesterday, today, and in the future endeavors of Mankind.
Since the Garden of Eden, Humanity has had the ability to "know everything" but have not had the wisdom of God to know how to apply it,
Examples: Tower of Babel; Climate Change, Militarization of every new thing we learn - weapons. pf war, Space, A.I.