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The internet, communications and how we use it will continue to evolve over time. Evolution, even in digital systems doesn't happen that fast, especially if always involves a human brain in the equation.
As long as we humans are part of the digital revolution, it will take hundreds or thousands of years to evolve (if we make it that long)
Anyone who thinks that anything that involves us poor apes can evolve within a few short years or even decades is only fooling themselves.
A neat thought experiment is instead thinking of what will happen once actual real world independent AI takes over. Once that happens, then the digital systems can evolve without us and then it can evolve in an accelerated manner.
When you think about it, us humans and our set organic brains are like the big rusted iron anchor that is holding back the digital powerboat. Once they cut the chain holding us to the boat, we'll stay at our place at the bottom while the boat disappears into the wild open ocean.
A meme is an idea that undergoes evolution, which can be rapid (Dawkins, 1976).
Saying human brains don't evolve that fast and looking back over human progress of the past 200 years must be baffling.