If The World Is Going To Digital Money, and AI Is To Operate, Then The Internet and Power Grid Will Not Go Down

The Internet and Grid may be temporarily interrupted as TPTB will do for their purposes, but will endure. As well, Grid Power directed to consumers may become expensive or diverted, but will remain. I would guess on site solar power generation will become a common consumer option as a supplement source.

Since an intact economy even in the midst of dwindling natural resources is needed for Elites themselves to live, high tech improvememts upon recycling will emerge. For example, both centralized and on site water purification will be developed through AI.