The Rise of a Visual Internet: Welcome to the Post-Text Future

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Whatever it is, it hangs trying to load in my browser.

A post text world would certainly be distopian for me, but I can't really conceive of it. Perhaps I could find out if only this page would load in my chrome browser.

This comment is the exact reason a text internet is still needed, because otherwise it will turn into a lag fest full of strange Javascript frameworks just to show a single article.

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