Web Pages in the Google Index

Today when I read the article Shift Happens Statistic of the Day, I was honestly not surprised to find out that there are 1,000,000,000,000 web pages in the Google index as of July 2008. One thing that did surprise me is that that number is growing by "several billion" every day. That means that for every person on the planet, there are approximately 166 web pages just linked to Google! To me that means that our society today is becoming completely dependent on the internet. What would happen if Google just disappeared one day? Would all those people going on to those 1 trillion sites just have to guess to figure out the answer to their problem? I truthfully don't think that most of the world could survive without the internet. Some people wouldn't be able to work, and a lot of people would probably just go insane due to the loss of communication and "information super-speed way." I personally use the internet almost everyday either for school, or to chat with my dad online, or for just pure entertainment. I don't see the number of web sites dropping at all... EVER! It will just continue to go up and up and up! Some day people will probably live off the internet. They will never leave their homes because they simply won’t need to. People are already working out of their houses and you can talk online. So in 50 years or so when the sources to be able to do everything you do in life online, what will be the point? I hope that that isn't the way everything turns out, but it is definitely possible.