"A cybersecurity expert on why you should be very worried about the internet’s future... Klimburg [program director at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies] games out a few possible futures for the internet. One of them is apocalyptic: Imagine the world’s major powers unleashing malicious code on one another, irreparably destroying vital infrastructure. Another is an Orwellian world in which the internet has become a tool of subjugation, monitored and restricted by state powers. Still another possibility is that the internet remains free, controlled by non-state actors, and a wondrous instrument of global connection..." https://www.vox.com/2017/7/26/15981...ity-net-neutrality-klimburg-the-darkening-web
Why spend one second being "worried" about something you have virtually no control over? Live your Internet life like your real life; the future is uncertain and there are no guarantees.
I think the average human IQ is too low for the internet to survive as an instrument for the free sharing of global information. Only those more enlightened, intelligent ones will try to protect that concept and as usually happens to such projects created to better mankind, those in the majority, the less intelligent, still motivated by base human instincts such as selfishness and greed will try to seize control of it because by their very nature they are the ones who accumulate large amounts of money which they can use as a tool to do exactly that.
Well, that's the problem isn't it? Critical infrastructure components should not be dependent upon the Internet in the first place. And direct interfacing with it is not recommended. The world operated just fine prior to mass use of the Internet in the mid-1990's. There is snail mail and voice communication although the later is increasingly dependent on the Internet. "Brick and mortar" retail concerns would welcome the Internet's demise with a corresponding increase in employment in those areas. The financial and consumer based industies would have to hire back all those people let go. The list goes on. One thing that most certainly will increase is individual privacy which has been seriously eroded in today's connected IoT world. Finally, we would just revert to point-to-point communication via telnet protocol for individuals and EDI for commercial concerns. In any case, this is very far from apocalyptic in scope.
I for one am more than thankful I grew up before the home computing age, I pity those who will look back on their childhood and early adulthood and remember most of it was spent staring at a screen. They will never know how much they missed out on.
