As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
- Written by Dana McKay, Associate Dean, Interaction, Technology and Information, RMIT University
Jakub Krechowicz / ShutterstockThe original idea for the world wide web emerged in a flurry of scientific thought around the end of World War II. It began with a hypothetical machine called the “memex”, proposed by US Office of Scientific Research and Development head Vannevar Bush in an article entitled As We May Think, published in...





