There are things the author overlooks. Primarily, the incredibly massive amount of information and services that has gone online in the past 10 years. From taxing your car to entire digitized libraries of scientific magazines that are there now and weren't before.

But how accessible are they? These days it's hard to even find what you're looking for, and if you do, you probably have to pay handsomely for it.

And the interfaces... Oh god the interfaces... For a long time I thought it was my fault that I could read less and less of the content in any given page.

But loading a news website takes like 10 clicks and 45 seconds of irrelevant garbage loading. You have to ignore the self-playing video(s) at the corner of the screen and the animated ads. Even the articles themselves are written in a way the either keep you reading for longer or redirect you to other articles. It's just incredibly bad for everyone involved. I'm dying for a plain old HTML internet again. Just plain text, hyperlinks and optional media like photos and videos when needed. Combine this with the power of modern machine learning and the result could be incredible, but instead it's an ongoing nightmare.