I don’t think we live in a dark age at all. We live in an age where incredible activity takes place that we never see.
We live in age of ongoing campaigns, constant conflict, attacks, defenses, building, tactics, adversaries all at an incredible rate of change.
All of this happens in “cyberspace”, so we don’t see it, but those who work in that domain surely do.
I liken it more to the electric grid disruptions of the mid to early 1900's

AI will one day properly control things. In my wife's industry, networks are constantly taken down, taken over on a global scale. Companies have to shut operations until either the ransom is paid or they figure it out. AI will one day stay on top of things like this.
AI will maintain a reliable world network, go to battle with adversaries.
We have no clue what AI will be capable of moving into the future. Just like we have no clue what a computer would be capable of right before its early stages. We dont know the future because we are not in it.
Who is to say the domain system will even exist as we know it?
Just my feeling I dont feel anywhere near where we need to go. We are still in the infancy of 5g radios that will one day be part of everything we do, not even close to that yet and I am sure sooner or later 5g will be outdated.
https://www.qualcomm.com/content/da...ocuments/5g_vision_use_cases_presentation.pdf
ALL I am saying is each generation in the past throught they were living already in the future and current generations looking back see anything but what they thought was the future. I love electronics and computers but Im bored and waiting for something new, exciting and better. Just the other day in another thread I agreed with someone as far as new cell phones. We have platoed no real reason to upgrade anymore as far as new and exciting. It's just a maintenance upgrade at this point, like the old dial up telephone.
Some genius will invent something for us. Same goes for our Mac Desktops I have a Mac mini with the intel processor and wife with the M1and a MacBook with an M1 ... why do I need to go to the M2 or M3 at this point when nothing new is offered for them to be needed? I'll eventually replace the 2018 version Mac mini with the intel just because I think. My wife has a Dell Workstation provided from her company, same thing now, still newer model doing the same old tasks (mostly)
It will happen, hope I am alive to see it

Im just bored with electronics, same old stuff, same old issues. Give me something new and useful. I have no clue what that can be.