Google’s shift toward AI-generated search results, displacing the familiar list of links, is rewiring the internet — and could accelerate the decline of the 30+-year-old World Wide Web.

Why it matters: A world where Google answers most questions in a single machine voice makes online life more convenient — and duller.

— The change also threatens to cut into Google’s revenue from search ads, and starve future AIs of the human data they’ll need. — Read More