simsa03• Wikipedia still organises information like a printed (!) tome, w/ lemma, article text, sources.
• #AI provides texts according to prompts, sources become irrelevant to display but are still available.
• AI search results demand cash to display sources and their URLs.
This seems probable because its people who need URLs and hyperlinks in their browsers, not machines that can locate and combine their assets in databases by other means (ISBN, UUIDs, DOIs, magnet links).
That is: Why still maintain an overhead for the purpose of convenient browser display when the search engines can directly access sources and only need to dsplay an individually created text to its individual prompt? And that means:
• The next step in web based display of information is the complete disappearance of URL and hyperlink.
Let me elaborate: In their overall form (and quality), information and text will become indistinguishable from audio and video streams, fluid instead of persistent, with features like "sourcing", momentary capture, and storage the next commodity ("product") for search engine companies to sell.
This all the more as ads will no longer be a viable business model for the internet industries. Like health data that are among the most precious data because of their long-lasting and immutable quality, so are the hard (meta-) data of sources which make them assets most valuable to monetize.
In short: In order for tech companies to monetize on the format data of sources, the URLs and hyperlinks of their corresponding webpages will vanish. For individual users to verify the credibility of information they receive, they will have to pay a fee. Or put differently: Not access but accuracy and verifiablity will be the next walled garden.
Period of time until full implemenation: Only five years, as every new search query will prompt AI to access sources whose addresses it then can hide from the browser display. That can be at least a linear dynamic.
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