I may be having a hypomanic episode, but I've been thinking about it more, and it seems like the entire Internet Age has been an attempt to more precisely synthesize the substance which sates human social needs artificially, and that when they perfect it, it's all over.
I've been thinking along those lines too, but more from the angle that our goal is to eliminate any need to rely on other humans for anything. We consider the need for interacting with other humans as a burden and an inconvenience, and we're going to get rid of it, at the cost of all the indirect benefits we got from being forced to do it.
