I'm appreciating Charlie Warzel's "toilet theory of the internet."

It really is starting to seem like the first cycle of the truly open internet might be coming to an end, first enabled and now eaten by Google. What will come next?

Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/google-generative-ai-search-toilet-theory/678411/?gift=ffOQCqPU5sHstJWsfnSQo0bAiBDnyPLug0IPVWNBgnA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Toilet Theory of the Internet

Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

The Atlantic