I have to agree with you that the lost of industrial society would be pretty much a kick in the head. And unfortunately I don't have the secret to developing a post industrial one. Well I do, but I don't feel like putting it out there .... yet.... .
The problem right now is that we are using too much resource value, our footprints are too large. I'ld really like to maintain what we can, as a farmer I understand how life might be different if I didn't have a tractors and fuel to run them. But as we leave sneaker tracks all over the planet large enough to fit the giants, and as we run out of cheap fuel the band wagon might be the only one moving.