Eulogy for the World Wide Web (1993-2025)
How hard is it to put into words what it has meant to us.
A Wrong-popping Bubble and Flower People
I have a recurring nightmare: the bubble introduced by large language models will reach its end-of-life in the near future and instead of popping in an expected form the assets generated by capital expenditures—these now-useless data centres among other things—will be absorbed erroneously and without question by the U.S. government using taxpayer dollars, our loss their gain.
It will only weaken the stock market in a surprisingly small way at first to a tremendous rally but then after the government attempts to absorb the implosion (damaging the dollar permanently) the companies involved will then take a massive hit anyways, annihilating markets, destroying savings and evaporating jobs. Dual totalling damage. It is my great fear as already faltering American liberalism will fully transform to fascism through this catalytic event.
Intellectual Diminishing
We cannot continue this charade of machine learning masquerading as artificial intelligence without breaking parts of our society permanently. It frightens me greatly.
As capitalism is stretched to its utmost extreme, those without the means to insulate themselves from the consequences are forced to work and live and raise their children in this new ever-souring arena, this era controlled now by failed adult-children; if not a failure in their professional lives, a failure in their personal lives, a social failure certainly and a moral failure undoubtedly. Mewling insecure men and women who have found themselves in the pilot’s seat of society will twist the air-frame to its limit to meet nearly impossible profitability goals to disastrous effect.
