The way it is now seems like the natural progression, to think it can be done another way, or could have been is naive. Freedom of information gave us an easier way to point out everything is phony and don't believe anything, just turn it off. (Where is the fancy bread? In the heart or in the head?) Where's the mystique and wonder that made the unobtainable charge the soul.
This is your brain

, now this is your brain on the Internet

, any questions.
Of course we all love it, (control), just some parts are "egh" yet understandable $_wi$e ..& just like everything there's a kill switch, and hugh is dead....thanks social media! Wouldn't have known otherwise...one day everyone we grew up with will be gone and you too will die, smile! You'll be somewhere online.