One of the reasons that I like reading Om Malik’s blog is because he puts into words what we feel in our guts, in terms of a trend that you see crystalizing but can’t yet put into words:

This is just like how I felt when I experienced Google for the first time—even before it had made it to the market. After that first meeting with Google’s co-founders, established search engines like Yahoo, Lycos, and AltaVista suddenly felt antiquated.

This shift matters more than you might think. Even the browser, that faithful window into the internet for the past three decades, is starting to feel like a relic. We’re moving from a document-centric web to something more fluid, where information flows naturally through conversation rather than being bound by pages or URLs.

The atomization of information is unfolding rapidly. Artificial intelligence doesn’t just search; it synthesizes, contextualizes, and presents information in a user’s preferred format.