It is a cluttered, heavily trafficked, and restricted information super-highway. This could be the best possible end. A free, smooth Internet with easy access sounds attractive, but it has its share of potholes. The child pornographers would have a nice forum and political protection. The exact effects of the Internet on how we think, how we feel, how we deal with real people is not yet known.
Some studies find that the Internet leads to depression.
A better scenario would be one in which the Internet is as unobtrusive as the telephone lines. Devices and software are set up to query and receive specific information from the Internet, and the end user does not know how they got the information, but they have it. This is essentially an abstraction of the client server model. This does already happen in some cases. I had used CD Spectrum to play audio CD s on my CD ROM drive.