[swatcoder]

There's a small but legitimate chance that is the final poison that will spoil the internet we've gotten used to and send many of us back to prioritizing physical, real-world connection with the community physically around us. If automatic generation means noise swamps signal so much that automated curation can't sort them out, the casual internet of strangers looks a lot different.

If so, that's not an apocalypse or the end of global communication or SaaS's or computers -- it would be an adjustment from the last 30 years of forums, blogs, social networks, influencers, and other internet folk content, where we felt like we were connecting with real people all across the world.

But based on how these latter phenomena seem to have affected mental health and physical activity, that might be a good thing. It could be that the Social Media Age was an unsustainable cultural flash and that a different kind of lifestyle experience and internet culture will come up behind.