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Very well-written!
For me, I see most everything less so from a Dystopian perspective (I sincerely doubt we'll get anywhere close to a "society"/civilization as such, power (electricity) will be a forlorn delicacy of modern life by that point), and more from a "the-planet-is (or will be)-fried" perspective.
So, yea, the WWW and all this is great, but it's as the saying goes: "yea, it's great. Until it isn't." And I wouldn't (realistically) pin climate change, et al, on the Internet or WWW, either (that'd be dumb, as there are countless other (direct) causes for it - all human-made), not that datacenters don't add to it (climate change).
It's just amusing that we have all the civilized STUFF right now, only to bring up another phrase "the night is always darkest just before the dawn". Or maybe the "lightning is always brightest just before the blindness?" (latter phrasing by me). But, our cards (not just civilization, but (most) life on Earth) are dealt, so regardless of the "progress" of tech, the Web, AI, etc., we're more or less twilighting ourselves out of cash and cradle.
To my original post, I say the silver lining is that, though - the Web going away, or/and other (nefarious, unrelishing) elements of the modern world dissapating. There's pros and cons to everything, it's just that in the coming decades the pros/cons of EVERYTHING will be incomparable to...most of what people have experienced so far.
Until later