Geert Lovink Predicts That This Whole Internet Thing Will Soon Blow Over

In an illustrated article titled “The Dying of the Internet,” University of Amsterdam professor and media theorist Geert Lovink asks a question for our time: “Can today’s Internet culture resist entropy and overcome endless capture? Facing its endless end?”

“It’s clearly already broken. At some point, everyone will get tired of being online”, at least that’s what Geert Lovink claims.

As Girts writes in a newspaper published by the school’s Network Culture Institute, his generation “learned early on that the Internet … is both poisonous and healing.” While his cohort admired this juxtaposition, succeeding generations became increasingly frustrated, he argues, and, perhaps more importantly, became more and more convinced that the Internet could not be fixed.

 “There may come a time when this becomes impossible, after which the adverse effects can no longer be controlled,” Lovink said in a press release from the school. “A The internet is moving towards a point of no return, and Big Tech is probably already aware of that too.”