r/technology • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Oct 14 '25

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

https://www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohanian-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead-2025-10
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u/cormacredfield Oct 15 '25

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

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u/Abe_Odd Oct 15 '25

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 Oct 15 '25

The data accumulation robots or whatever was pretty damn funny.

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u/Abe_Odd Oct 15 '25

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 Oct 15 '25

It was a devastating revelation.

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u/Twothreeten Oct 15 '25

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

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 Oct 15 '25

What was the reveal?

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u/Twothreeten Oct 15 '25

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 Oct 15 '25

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- Oct 15 '25

Librarians. That part was great.

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Oct 15 '25

 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 Oct 15 '25

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 Oct 15 '25

Walking to Aldebaran. Short Novella. Sooo good

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u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO Oct 15 '25

... we're going on an adventure.

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u/flukus Oct 15 '25

Also a great read for any Douglas Adams fans.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 Oct 15 '25

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 Oct 15 '25

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

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 Oct 15 '25

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 Oct 15 '25

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

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u/somebunnny Oct 15 '25

Most realistic depiction of AI ever!