Isn't it kind of inevitable? As long as humans have the desire for power and control, informational networks will be developed and extended until the point of r

Isn't it kind of inevitable? As long as humans have the desire for power and control, informational networks will be developed and extended until the point of replacement of humanity because it will be in some parts interest to use them to accumulate power. You're asking to go against evolutionary principles to reject the utopia. Everyone on earth will never agree to become monks, there will always be the desire to reproduce better, signal status and power, so the technology will be developed until we are finished as a species.