At the current juncture, where the internet is still open enough to be searched by agents, and models have minimized many of the issues of earlier versions, it feels like we’re kind of in a sweet spot between the old and new web. By the new web, I mean a time where data becomes increasingly walled off, and access falls almost entirely into a transactional model. The Peter Watts Rifters trilogy touched on this back in 1999 better than I think a lot of modern fiction does. In it, people had to ...
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