Essay: AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet's 30-Year-Old Business Model
Ronangmi · x · 2026-11-03
Ronangmi's essay for Collab+Currency, "Agents are breaking the internet's business model," argues that agents are rapidly changing how the web is consumed and who profits from it, rewriting the economic bargains that have sustained the open web for thirty years.
The core thesis: as the world shifts from single-player computer use to an agentic paradigm, the internet's legacy business models — built on human users, ads and traffic — will be forced to evolve. A timely analysis of the emerging economics of the agent era.
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