We've heard doomsday predictions about the web before. Social networks were supposed to kill it. Then came mobile apps—everyone said the web was finished. Turns out, neither actually happened.

But now? AI might be different. The technology is evolving so fast and becoming so capable that it could fundamentally reshape how people interact with information and each other online. The centralization of AI in a few hands, the way it processes and filters content, the potential for algorithmic manipulation at scale—these aren't hypothetical anymore.

The threat isn't necessarily that the web disappears. It's that it becomes less relevant. Why search when an AI gives you instant answers? Why browse when algorithms curate everything? The real question is whether we lose the open, permissionless nature of the web in the process.