Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web | John Naughton

Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source

In The Beginning Was The Internet, which was first switched on in January 1983 and designed from the outset as a platform for what became known as “permissionless innovation”. If you had a good idea that could be implemented using the network – and were smart enough to write the software to make it work – then the internet would do it for …

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