Austinites: Your Internet Is About To Vanish!

Npr's pien huang speaks with writer s. e. Smith about their piece in the verge that explores why so many websites disappear from the internet and what it tells us about online. Dead internet theory explains why online networks feel empty and how algorithms replace human connection, teaching us to interact with predictive models instead of real people. There are still about 55,000 adult austinites without internet access, and city leaders are renewing the push to get them online. About 44 percent of the laggards have no.

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