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socially, perhaps not. But we've embedded connectivity into our lives so deeply at this point (banking, bill paying, work communication/coordination, shopping, recipes, and so on) it's hard to imagine a world without the non-social uses of the internet.
...and if we have connectivity, it's hard to imagine humans not using it for social purposes to.
My phone-free, internet-free, computer-free childhood wasn't bad at all. But, like the pre-industrialized world, I don't think we can ever get back to it.
I meant socially. I still think we'll have interconnected apps for banking, gaming, work, etc.
I don't know about the future of open message boards. The degradation of slop is too high. They'll gate things behind payment, reputation, proof-of-human, or something else.
I worry especially about the future of academic research and open source. Things that were primarily about the open production and sharing of information.
Who knows, maybe the internet will become such shit that people just go back to in-person living. The internet was cool, lot of great things, but a lot of harmful things too. If people unplug themselves from internet discourse and return to in-person communities, is that such a bad thing?