"My generation is the last that knew a world without the internet..."
I would be surprised were that so. The coming digital ID will turn that Big Data into a weapon that will - and already is - cut people off from all comms. Across MENA, but particularly in Palestine, Big Data is weaponized against dissidents, and there are a lot of dissidents across the world, and across issues. All of them will be cut off, as completely as possible.
I expect the internet to become something exclusive, like in the movie 'Elysium', where the modern tech in the orbital habitat was reserved to an elite, while plebs suffered what they could manage for themselves under the economic pressure applied by the larcenous corporations the elite profited from. This process is ongoing today, and that is the main driver behind my interest in decentralization. I don't think we need to be a world of plebs ruled by an elite, because decentralized production is more productive than centralized production. That enables the masses with merit to prevent such an elite from continuing to have exclusive wealth and access to modern goods and services, the blessings of civilization will inure to them that make them.
I intend my sons and posterity generally to merit them thereby.