The internet feels like it’s falling apart. The platforms that undergird our everyday experiences online feel shaky, pulsing with the first foreshocks of a collapse.
To start, nothing seems to work anymore. Google’s search engine once provided directory-level assistance to the denizens of the internet. Now it’s chock full of ads, sidebars, SEO-optimized clickbait, and artificial intelligence-powered guesstimations of possible answers to peoples’ questions.