I'm concerned about lost data; much has already been lost to the
   future. I'm grateful to projects like the Wayback Machine,
   although I honestly hope MANY TREES are being eaten up by
   _somebody out there_ printing out *hard copies* of knowledge
   that will be lost given some kind of catastrophic EM situation.

   The electrical systems and the computers themselves would be
   rebuilt in short order; I'm not worried about those things.

   But it's lost data. What good is an empty network?

   Anyway, I'm trying to be more positive. The Internet can't be
   the be-all / end-all, because newspaper wasn't, radio wasn't, TV
   wasn't, phone networks weren't, and logically, neither will be
   the Internet.

   So... what? What will it be? What will supplant the 'net?

   [besides, 'more Internet". Assuming all devices and humans are
   connected by some brain implants... instant thought
   communication is available.. you know the lad-de-da dreamy
   interconnected doorknobs, virtually interactive display rooms,
   oh and one of my futurist inventions - display paint (paint that
   becomes a touch screen/display interface - it's a logical step
   and theoretically possible)

   So that's all done.

   What would be next beyond that?]