More specifically, ChatGPT (and less useful AI apps) can scan all 50 billion web pages and answer our detailed, specific, labor-intensive requests and questions in seconds—as opposed to just links.

Granted, we’re not Post-Google in the way we’re Post-MySpace or Post-BlackBerry. But we are clearly past Peak-Google as the default digital brain. And in tech, that’s often how real change begins.

What an exciting, unpredictable, and wonderful world we live in!