Jeffrey Zeldman offers the antidote to fears that AI browsers herald the end of the internet through a sequence of some of the worst articles Wired has ever published predicting - you guessed it - the end of the internet. The most notorious of these is 1997's Push lauding the arrival of "PointCast, a clever application that displayed news headlines as a screensaver." I think people knew it was wrong before the ink was even dry on that issue's pages. Zeldman's point is that "if AI kills the web that provides the information AI sucks down, then there is no contemporary body of news and text for AI to suck down and regurgitate." Content needs an origin, a source of truth, if you will. And for now, that's the web.
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