From the World Brain to the World Wide Web (Aside)

The centralized source of information, as the passage states, "is an evolutionary development in the dissemination of information". After reading this passage, it makes sense that our next step from the printing press would be an even faster paced 'information disseminator'.
H. G. Wells was on the right track when he was devising the 'World Brain', however, he was before his time. His idea of the World Brain, as explained, is very similar to what I believe to be Wikipedia.
A statement about Well's, "Wells perceived that the world was drifting into war. He believed this was because of the sheer ignorance of ordinary people, that allowed them to be duped into voting for fascist governments" Is something that I took to be very believable. I see that, myself, that as one becomes more informed, their rational thought and logic skills direct them into directions other than war. With that, I wonder if we will ever have a society that is fully informed and educated. I say that because we have this 'World Brain' at our finger tips and we do not use it to its full potential. We also see some of our society become dumber with this influx of technology that is also used to convey information. Time will tell.
Vannevar Bush was alike Wells as he too was before his time. He did however devise the Mexex 'memory extender' that foreshadowed the World Wide Web. Thankfully for Bush, he lived in the post-war era and was able to, "reflect on the role of science and technology in the post-war world". He also realized that a pressing problem would be the dissemination of information. He then was able to build a machinal machine that was "rendered for 1945 technology" which was similar to Well's idea.
Progressing from that, we find ourselves talking about J. C. R. Licklider. He fortunately had the opportunity to dabble with technology that neither Wells or bush had. He successfully helped engineer the first man-computer symbiosis  that inevitably led to the personal computer. With this man-computer symbiosis, information was able to be disseminated at a much faster pace between exuberant amounts of individuals. Both Well's and Bush's dreams were created because of this invention, but not before their demise.

While reading this passage, it lead me to think:
We have moved further from print information more as we involve technology within our lives and information records. What if, some day, we put all of our information on the 'cloud'- which is inevitably the next evolutionary development from the internet. We stray from publishing information in hard copy (or very few for that matter) and our information resides on this TAZ or this intangible place. Our civilization as we know it then perishes (similar to ancient civilizations), and this 'could' or network is no longer accessible. All of our records and information will perish as well, as my logic suggests, correct? Do you think this is a practical idea and if it would actually happen?

I would also like to know what the next 'big' step in the evolutionary dissemination of information is from the Internet. The Internet is a huge development in and of itself, and I can only anticipate what comes next.