As long as people still acquire & maintain skills that can provide for their needs that's fine. It could become 1890 again technology wise real fast though either by terrorism or by natural occurrence. There are way too many eggs in one basket so to speak in critical infrastructures such as electrical power grid and communications grid. Just as there is way too much dependence on satellite communications. The microwave system point to point Ma Bell relied on took longer but would do the job. When I was a kid Ma Bell networked the TV networks as far as national coast to coast broadcast went through them.
“When I was a kid Ma Bell... “
I love the look I get when I tell kids I once worked for the only telephone company in America!
I went into factory maintenance when the old equipment was controlled by either delicate mechanical ‘brains’ or huge discrete electronic ones.
Then came the microprocessor and the computer.
When I retired the first question in troubleshooting was “what is the computer thinking?”.