I can imagine the attention economy sinking, but I struggle to believe that we as a species won't replace it with something potentially worse.
E.g. before the internet there was TV, and advertisers have filled up that space for decades -- before that magazines and newspapers did the same. At this point, can humans believe that they are not being farmed for their eyes?
That being said, I do think the internet potentially becomes basically plumbing -- something that we don't really touch (as our AI agents or whatever comes next are the ones that absorb the content there).
E.g. before the internet there was TV, and advertisers have filled up that space for decades -- before that magazines and newspapers did the same. At this point, can humans believe that they are not being farmed for their eyes?
That being said, I do think the internet potentially becomes basically plumbing -- something that we don't really touch (as our AI agents or whatever comes next are the ones that absorb the content there).