'The internet will be obsolete' goes from fringe take to conventional wisdom
signulll · x · 2026-10-17
signulll observes that the prediction 'most of the internet will be completely obsolete very soon' has shifted from fringe to conventional wisdom, though its implications aren't fully digested yet.
His original argument: AI agents will replace direct user interaction with the web — search engines obsolete, social platforms distilled into personalized outputs, websites evaporating. The internet reduces to APIs and scraped data, becoming invisible infrastructure like electricity. The downside: agents would consolidate power even harder.
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