0. Internet is initially pretty good.
1. Google introduces search algorithm that is pretty good.
2. SEO becomes a thing because of Google, and makes the web bad.
3. AI (including Google's AI) bypasses that.
4. The web is eradicated, and Google/other AI companies are the only place where you can get information...
Seems like the web would have been better off without Google.
0.5 User 1,563,018 puts their credit card details in to make the world’s first online transaction!
0.50001 The web is filled with spam and unsearchable for real information
0.9 Some smart nerds figure out an algorithm to find the signal in the noise
1.9 Google throws out “don’t be evil” because search is cost, ad’s are money
4.1 Google and the rest of the AI/s subvert human decision making in ways that marketers could only ever dream
∞.∞ Humans toil in slavery to the whims of our corporate overlords
I wanted a different dystopia.