The Growing Cost of Information

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How companies created a minefield to accessing information through advertisements, paywalls, subscription hell, and garden walls, leading more users to abandon search engines in favor of GenAI tools.

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Related topics to address:

• Ye Olde Organic Web Browsing
• Libraries
• The risk-tasking of inaccurate information to avoid the minefield
• Trends of new technologies and eventual demise into enshitification.
• Remnants and repetition of knowledge for the powerful elite only (historical religion, illiteracy as means of control, etc.) Reserved for people with money.
• GenAI force-fed to unwilling users—the new unsolicited dick-pics.
• Algorithms, lobbied interests choose your destiny and why free will matters.