If the question is whether the ICT industry can survive without the Internet, then the answer is no. The Internet has become a daily necessity for people of all classes of society. The livelihood of thousands of millions of people in every country is based on this internet. And if the internet is shut down in a country, how far does that country fall away from the current world, can you imagine?

The Internet is the backbone of the nation nowadays. If educated geniuses are the backbone of the nation, the internet is a part of that backbone. The nation that thrives on the Internet in today's world, the nation that thrives in today's world.

So one can blindly say that how far a nation will rise to the pinnacle of development can be understood by how much that nation has prospered on the Internet.