Not sure of the point. I agree with the observation about power. Some simply have a powerful drive to control others. And when those people are smart and ruthless the non-ruthless who do not HAVE a drive of their own to control, who are interested in other pursuits, become victims and pawns. We ARE controlled and managed to a much greater degree than we realize. School is the thing that enables it all, molds us to accept the purposes of others as OUR purposes without question. Increasingly, as Buckminster Fuller observed, the managers are not as imaginative, competent or as intelligent as those they are in charge of managing.
We are interconnected. Problems arise when that interconnectedness is viewed as excusing the subsuming of the individual for the benefit of the collective. It's not so bad to be a "node" if you are allowed to be your own special and unique KIND of "node" instead of a "node" molded to some other persons specs for THEIR notions of what would be great.
Computers can be used for good or evil, can waste time or be invaluable resources. They are the modern equivalent of the Guttenberg printing press. Life and thinking is being revolutionized by access to information on a previously unimagined level. Do people sacrifice real human relationships to computer "networking" and "interfacing"? Probably, but there is the balancing effect of being able to "associate" with those who share your interests and ideas. It is a kind of "inward" tribal life, an escape from the forced associations and managers of real life.
Yes. There is porn and lots of time wasting games and nonsense. But there is a LOT of true wisdom and valuable info available for FREE. It would be very exciting to be 20 years old again and have access to all of this knowledge and info.

For fun, read "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.

This was written way before anyone could even imagine the small-format computer technology that we have now. Somehow, Mr. Card hit it dead on.

Dave