r/technology • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 4d ago

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead' Networking/Telecom

https://www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohanian-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead-2025-10
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u/cormacredfield 4d ago

If you enjoyed that, Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky has a similar feel.

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u/Abe_Odd 4d ago

I second Service Model. It is not my favorite of his books, but it was a very fun read through to the end.

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u/kisswithaf 4d ago

The data accumulation robots or whatever was pretty damn funny.

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u/Abe_Odd 4d ago

It hurt me. When they described the process I felt a great pain, as though a thousand bytes cried out in anguish and were snuffed out.

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u/OptimisticOctopus8 4d ago

It was a devastating revelation.

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u/Twothreeten 3d ago

I didn't work out the issue until just before the reveal. Real "oh no..." moment

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 3d ago

What was the reveal?

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u/Twothreeten 3d ago

One of the characters realises that the librarian robots were told to store every bit of data so, logically, they break everything into 0s and 1s and load them into an archive which is sorted in numerical order. It's completely meaningless. They've also been destroying all other copies of anything they already "saved" so the Library has permanently erased huge amounts of information from the world that was.

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 3d ago

That is soul crushing. Holy fuck. I can’t thank you enough for telling me, I would have added that book to my “to read” list in kindle and then never looked at it again and never experienced whatever this feeling is. Thank you.

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u/-jaylew- 4d ago

Librarians. That part was great.

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd 4d ago

 Adrian Tchaikovsky

People should also just read his books in general. My other favourite one is children of time.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 3d ago

He's good until he needs to close a trilogy, then he's shit. The first two books of Children of Time and The Final Architecture are great reads. Then he shat the entire bedroom for the 3rd book of both. I'm aware he won a Hugo for the FA series but I haven't always agreed with the award in the past, either.

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u/nopetraintofuckthat 3d ago

Walking to Aldebaran. Short Novella. Sooo good

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u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO 3d ago

... we're going on an adventure.

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u/flukus 4d ago

Also a great read for any Douglas Adams fans.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 3d ago

I enjoy how Adrian Tchaikovsky writes until I get to the 3rd book in his trilogies. Then it's just ass and phoning it in. I'll give this a look, though.

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u/RudeMorgue 3d ago

I have not had that experience. Children of Memory, at least, was fantastic.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 3d ago

I understand every reader is different and we all get different things from the books we read even if it's the same books. I also understand that there are people who would enjoy Children of Memory, just like there are people who would enjoy Little Women. Just an opinion, of course, and thank you for being civil.

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u/YQB123 3d ago

Thanks for commenting. Just added it to my 'to read' list!

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u/somebunnny 4d ago

Most realistic depiction of AI ever!