The end of the internet?

The internet! What sweet memories I have with it; staring at a screen for hours with twinkles in my eyes held up for a download to complete, the retrospection of filtered content by the different ISPs' and the reciprocated loss of that 'link' LED on that dial up network. The majority of this drove me to acknowledge how astonishing a thing this 'internet' was. With the approval of the net neutrality regulations by the Federal Communications Commission this week and an earlier selective viral news reports of Eric Schmidt, Executive chairman, Google as saying: “I will answer very simply that the internet will disappear”, I realized how much I will miss the internet. Do not get me wrong, none of this implies in any way that we are headed back towards the stone age, but that we are moving towards a world where we cannot draw a boundary between internet and 'the rest of the world'. The Google big shot said that as an answer regarding the evolution of the web. For those who are wondering why am I writing about this, I sleep wearing technology - the fitbit, whenever I am awake, I'm either on my MacBook or my iPhone or watching Television- all of which run through the internet and are all connected to my social accounts. I watch cable, both from USA(Sling TV) and India (Dish) via WiFi. My devices sync wirelessly by themselves and probably know a lot more about me then I do myself. From being assistive technology, the internet has become something that we assist whenever it needs our help (usually by restarting our WiFi routers when our world comes to a halt, usually when the internet slows down or stops working). I happen to be among those proud people whose entire life is on the cloud; yes, I have nothing on my physical storages, just applications. All my data is divided between Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, Box, iCloud and Copy! My MacBook got stolen and I was happy to not have lost any data, but what if somebody stole the cloud, even for a day? Boy, I can see how much in panic I would be with Identity theft being so common these days. I would indeed miss the internet, where I could just do what I needed as an anonymous user without having every website I visit making my life so easy - by having me log in via my Facebook or Google accounts. As said by Ziad K. Abdelnour, “The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.” Not that I have anything to hide. What I would prefer is that the internet can track me in real time, but let me keep my data to myself but then again, I love the cloud - it makes my life so easy peasy, lemon squeezy!