I think we will have faded by the time Christ returns, and that there will be a surveillance state on steroids in place worldwide.
What I think is of a more immediate concern is that so much material is available in digital form that people aren’t buying books, so hard copies will be harder to find. Then there is the problem of file formats changing, leaving tons of data in unreadable formats. We also have the “decolonization” movement trying to memory hole Shakespeare and other dead white authors, and then there is the politicization of textbooks leading to badly written textbooks, effort rather than results graded (leading to insanely busy box-checking students), and an odd sort of war being declared on mathematics.
There are plenty of good reasons here and now to justify collecting books of worth.
“Then there is the problem of file formats changing, leaving tons of data in unreadable formats.”
That’s important. Technology changes too quickly to depend on that. I clung to a few of the 3” “floppy” disks (that weren’t actually floppy) with graphics on them. They’re no good to me now.