Most things "go away" eventually, if you looked at the technology that was in use 10,000 or 1,000 or even 100 years ago, most of it is now obsolete. I don't think a specific payment protocol like Bitcoin is comparable to general human practices like agriculture or barter, physical phenomena like fire, or fundamental frames of thinking like mathematics.
But the Internet is based on the physical phenomenon of electricity, and Bitcoin is built on top of that and the fundamental frame of thinking of cryptography, a branch of mathematics.
