I mean... are literacy rates "cooked"? I think one can find a number of utilitarian metrics with solid footing that would advance the case for the human benefits of the internet.
I mean, given the fact that emergency services now utilize internet-based telephony... You could start there. How many lives have been saved that otherwise wouldn't have because telecom networks allow rapid response to emergencies?
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Utilitarian measurements are useful if 1. they are properly anchored to transcendent goods and 2. not viewed in isolation from context. They're something, just not the whole package.