Design & Systems

We stopped clicking, and AI became the Internet

Three zones trace the internet’s transformation: a dense web of equally connected nodes in 1991, three dominant platform clusters by 2005, and a single large AI node in 2025 to which every remaining node connects. Open, diverse, human — centralised, curated, synthetic.

On convenience, abdication, and the quiet erosion of the open web. The internet isn’t dying. That’s the problem.

In 2026, over half of all web traffic is generated by bots, not humans (Computing, 2026). The most damning part is not the rise of the bots. It is that most of us did not notice…

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