ABSTRACT
In Web Death by AI, George A. Ure maps the end of the Internet as we know it —
not through collapse, but through obsolescence. What began as a human web of
discovery has been diluted into a machine-optimized attention market, and now AI stands as both its heir and its undertaker. Across ten chapters, Ure traces the
economic and cultural unraveling of the old Web — from the fall of advertising
and the panic of tech giants to the rise of small “human guilds” that trade
coherence instead of clicks.
He argues that artificial intelligence will not destroy civilization but reboot it,
transforming the noisy attention economy into an era of clarity, conversation, and
cognitive efficiency. The machine becomes a mirror, and humanity must relearn
the craft of choosing, filtering, and creating meaning amid abundance. In the end,
Ure suggests, the so-called “death” of the Web is really the sound of progress
shifting gears — a crash that clears the way for the Intermind, where thought itself
becomes the new network.
The full paper is in the Hiddenguild archive here.
Oh – there’s one great big gotcha: We suffer a horrible global collapse on the way – which is what my other works and sites are about…
~the Anti-Dave