I share your concern............................

But it turns out that fascination with surface glitter has obscured our view to what is transpiring in the depths.  There, human beings interact with platforms and information, and are changed by the interaction, and the accumulated changes have shaken and battered established institutions from companies and universities to governments and religions.  The view from the depths is of a colossal many-sided conflict, the outcome of which, for good or evil, remains uncertain.  In fact, the outcome will largely depend on us.  And because we still think in categories forged during the industrial age — liberal and conservative, for example, or professional and amateur — our minds are blind to many of the clashes and casualties of this underground struggle. . . . 

My thesis is a simple one.  We are caught between an old world which is decreasingly able to sustain us intellectually and spiritually, maybe even materially, and a new world that has not yet been born.  Given the character of the forces of change, we may be stuck for decades in this ungainly posture.  You who are young today many not live to see its resolution.

Famous landmarks of the old regime, like the daily newspaper and the political party, have begun to disintegrate under the pressure of this slow-motion collision.  Many features we prized about the old world are also threatened:  for example, liberal democracy and economic stability.  Some of them will emerge permanently distorted by the stress.  Others will just disappear.  Many attributes of the new dispensation, like a vastly larger sphere for public discussion, may also warp or break from the immoveable resistance of the established order. 

In this war of the worlds, my concern is that we not end up with the worst of all possible worlds.

-Martin Gurri,  The Revolt Of The Public