I'd be careful with a statement like that: yes, formally we have a massive amount of information accessible in the form of hypertext, searchable via "refined" keyword-based search engines and LLMs, and right there we have a bit of a problem. We have almost nothing in the way of "unbiased" search engine solutions, YaCy is one example, but it's too small to have enough coverage for real-world web use. Yes, we also have electronic currency, like Bitcoin, but even today it's accepted by very few; there are services that convert it on the fly into fiat with Visa/Mastercard cards behind them, but also these are SPOFs with a significant chain of dependencies, and we've had plenty of lessons like those of WikiLeaks, the anti-Trudeau protesters in Canada, Francesca Albanese, and the many others like her who have been similarly economically blocked by the EU, and so on.

Things aren't going much better on the hardware front either: we have x86 (open platform even if not open hardware) which is fairly widespread to be sourced, sure, but it's also getting harder and harder to build decent PCs due to the cost of graphics cards, RAM, and NVMEs, not to mention the mere sheer shortages that make it difficult to buy what you actually need, and often what you do get is of increasingly poor quality. The push towards mobile, which consists of closed SoCs and basebands that are even proprietary by law, is stifling. More and more people, especially for children and students, are giving in and being handed connected spying systems, essentially mobile junk instead of FLOSS desktops.

It's no better at a public level: public administrations are increasingly imposing digital identities and mobile-only services, forcing citizens into a dependency on these tracking proprietary devices. We've already seen what happens at border crossings with this hardware and the consequences we can suffer if it's simply blocked or remotely manipulated in various ways, starting with basic Lightning payments: we can pay on-chain using an (open) hardware wallet, but with Lightning that's not necessarily the case, which implies a dependency on mobile devices that aren't ours but belong to the OEM, giant US and Chinese players, and so on.

To conclude, technologically speaking, I quite agree that we could be in an era of progress and well-being; the fact is, however, that we aren't, due to the deliberate choice of four kleptocrats who are busy feeding a vast mass of Le Bonian bipedal cattle. Knowing ourselves isn't enough to protect us much, nor to protect our children, because while we can do a bit, we still depend on society for so much. Even if we became farmers in a remote hermitage, certain that we'd never need healthcare, or have emergencies we couldn't handle alone, etc we still couldn't really manage physical defence against hostile states. You might deal with a thief, but police and armed forces are impossible to manage on an individual or small community scale.

Homeschooling makes it possible to reduce state indoctrination, and forming individuals who think for themselves and share their family's knowledge is a good thing, but it isn't enough to protect them.