Has the internet been a net positive or negative for humanity?

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BraLoD said:

For now and at least a decade in the future, for all it has provided up to this point, it was a massive positive.

But as people are becoming, and already are, far too depedant on it, and it keeps being more weaponized by a few bilionaries into the biggest form of social control and manipulation mankind has ever faced, it's going to be a massive negative eventually, with the potential to literally reset us back in time as society and it's definitely going to cause civil and international wars too.

We've been dependent on various infrastructures for centuries. Up until fairly recent times, the only two places on Earth that could really support large numbers of people were the east China plains and the Ganges basin, and even they had to be able to get the food they produced distributed to their populations or they would have massive loss of life. And those pre-modern distribution systems were prone to failure and manipulation. We're all more vulnerable than we want to admit to, and dependent on an awful lot of infrastructure for survival, and that was true long before the Internet came about.