Nobody can predict what the Internet and life on earth will be like in 10-20 years from now. Advances in science and technology, especially in artificial intelligence/brain research, have certainly been accelerating the evolution of the Web and the Internet, and human life on earth at an exponential speed. The issue is who will control what, humans or what humans have developed and created.
If humans are engulfed in their scientific and technological pursuits, and do not spare time for their social, environmental and ethical development, they could be plunging into a catastrophe caused by their ambition and their way of living. The giant virtual brain, the Internet Universe, or some ambitious mega and multinational network federation could control humans before humans' realizing it. Technology, the Web and the Internet are interfering every aspect of human life, forcing humans to make subconscious decisions against their free will. This has already happened, most obviously in human relationships and interactions.
The war between the evil and the good is still going on, as it has been since time immemorial. The difference this time is that it is the war between what humans have created against the creators themselves.
