You're arguing convenience for things you could already do through a library over the huge amount of negatives that has come with the Internet: crime, espionage, hacking, emotional manipulation, spread of propaganda and disinformation, social media, legalized data stealing, destruction and abuse of copyright, centralization of information flow, etc.

Well, you could already do, sort of. Even the best stocked library in the world has it's limits and even the largest printed encyclopedia cannot reach anywhere near the breath of information on Wikipedia and no technical library has as many articles as PubMed.

We switched from techno optimism to techno pessimism - for some good reasons - nevertheless internet brought to the table revolutionary capabilities not only for evil but also for good.