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by nealabq 3227 days ago
This is a visionary comment. It's looking at the 10-year future. Let me add two thoughts:

What we do now is "surf". We view info as pages, which are presentations constructed and filtered by someone else. What you're suggesting is that instead of surfing the surface, we could dive deep into the info-ocean and construct a presentation for ourselves. The future-browser is the tool to enable that.

I'm guessing that eventually we'll each have an AI that learns how we want to consume info; an AI that eventually becomes an assistant. She will become the layer between us and the info-ocean, filtering, organizing and presenting, and even suggesting, guiding and teaching. She know our interests and habits, read our emails, and take our phone calls. She may be owned and controlled by a corporation, like Alexa, Siri, Cortana or Google Assist. Or maybe we'll be able to construct our own AI-assistant, integrated into our browser/phone/AR-headset.

Right now we're the fish, hooked by advertising and branding schemes coated with a layer of technology. Someday maybe some fish can hide behind a technology layer of their own.