The Internet is becoming a less useful, less usable, and overall scarier place. Disney and Max purging their content libraries, Google and Microsoft shifting the burden of online search curation back onto the user, and Twitter and Reddit restricting their API access all mark a definitive shift in the ways we all interact with the Internet going forward... all for the worse.
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chapters:
0:00 The Futurists
2:16 A Brief Retrospective
4:03 Locking Down APIs
8:34 The Culling of Content
12:31 The Death of Search
18:08 The Internet's Gatekeeper
20:03 Our Future
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Sources & Further Reading:
https://defector.com/the-last-page-of...
https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bl...
http://bactra.org/T4PM/futurist-manif...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/te...
https://time.com/6266147/internet-arc...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23...
https://mashable.com/article/internet...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
https://www.anildash.com/2012/12/13/t...
   • A Brief History of the Internet - Fir...  
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-...
   • Scandal and Betrayal: The Story of Ho...  
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/busi...
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4...
https://mashable.com/article/social-m...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoz...
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...
https://www.ign.com/articles/twitch-c...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/...
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23...
https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/tru...
https://developers.google.com/search/...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23...
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/goo...
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https://www.pcgamer.com/more-of-the-i...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tw...
  / basic-info  
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/te...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/t...
https://mashable.com/article/half-of-...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/09/twitte...
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-...
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/04/elo...
https://mashable.com/article/wordpres...
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-d...
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/29/twi...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycol...