The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision: an internet navigated by autonomous software agents that address our…
This edition of The Download introduces the concept of the agentic web, a vision first articulated by Tim Berners-Lee in 2001. Despite seeming far-fetched at the time, AI agents are now beginning to make this vision a reality. These agents can manage inboxes, perform grocery shopping, and access bank accounts. The agentic web is poised to radically transform the internet, but the implications for the human web remain uncertain.
This newsletter explores how AI agents are reshaping the online world and what we might lose in the process.
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