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From Bots to Browsers: Adtech in the Age of Agents

Posted on May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

While still small in volume, the behavioral signal is loud: LLMs are becoming a discovery layer. Not just answering questions, but routing demand.

Bots are becoming browsers.

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Adtech’s Blind Spot: Why CDNs Won’t Win in the Agentic Internet

Posted on May 19, 2025May 19, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

What if your content loads in 50 milliseconds—but no one ever sees it? In the AI-mediated internet, delivery isn’t the problem. Discovery is. CDNs and the Attention Economy For most of the web’s commercial history, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been indispensable. They allowed publishers and platforms to serve content rapidly, reduce latency, and keep…

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Farewell Web 4.0, We Hardly Knew You. Long Live the Post-Web Era.

Posted on May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

Introduction If you’ve been following my work, you might have noticed that I’ve used the term Web 4.0 to describe the next phase of the internet—a shift that I initially framed as an evolution of the web itself. That term came out of the work I did last year, building on ideas from Web 3.0—ideas that are…

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Meta’s Move Isn’t a Power Grab. It’s a Survival Signal.

Posted on May 3, 2025May 4, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

This past week, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines with a bold new vision for Meta’s ad platform: soon, small businesses won’t need to worry about creative, targeting, or even analytics. All they’ll need is a goal and a budget. Meta’s AI will handle the rest—automatically generating content, selecting the audience, optimizing the spend, and reporting the…

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The End of Browsing: Web4 and the Rise of Agentic Systems

Posted on April 28, 2025May 4, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

As we enter Web4, browsing declines and intelligent delegation rises. Explore how the Cognition Age is reshaping agency, trust, and digital engagement.

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The Agent Is the Internet

Posted on April 22, 2025May 4, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

Computing Is Entering the Cognition Age We’re standing at the edge of something big—not just a shift in what our tech does, but in what it is. If you’ve felt like your experience with the internet is changing, you’re not alone. We’re stepping beyond the Information Age and into something new: the Cognition Age. And like every…

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Web 3.0: A Human-Centric Digital Future

Posted on January 12, 2025January 18, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

Imagine a digital world where you, the user, are at the center of everything. A world where your privacy is fiercely protected, your creations are truly yours, and your online experiences are shaped by your choices and values, not by the whims of large corporations. This is the vision of Web 3.0, the next generation…

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  • The Broken Infrastructure of Hope: How Americans Lost Faith in Self-Governance, and How to Rebuild ItFebruary 1, 2026
  • Venezuela Is a Symptom. Neo-Feudalism Is the Disease.January 7, 2026
  • Defending Democratic Capitalism Through Capacity StewardshipJanuary 5, 2026
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  • Obamacare Succeeded at Health Insurance but Was Always Doomed to Fail at HealthcareDecember 7, 2025
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  • How to Make Economics a ScienceNovember 30, 2025
  • Universal Basic Income (UBI) isn’t the right solution, the U.S. needs Universal Basic Assets (UBA)November 16, 2025
  • Beyond Capitalism vs. SocialismNovember 10, 2025
  • Why Monetary Systems MatterNovember 9, 2025
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  • What is AI Psychosis? Why Using AI is very Different than a Google SearchSeptember 24, 2025
  • The Irreducible Human Core: 8 Capabilities That Make You More Valuable Than AISeptember 4, 2025
  • Thriving in the AI-Age: How to be a Generative Human using Generative AI as your Cognitive WorkbenchAugust 19, 2025
  • Want to Use AI Better? Identify Your Use Case FirstAugust 11, 2025
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  • The Politics of Stakeholder Society: A New Way to Understand Left vs. RightJuly 17, 2025
  • The Parasite’s Dilemma: How AI Destroys the Quality Information Supply Chain It Depends OnJuly 14, 2025
  • The Opportunity Economy Toolkit: What You Need to Unleash America’s PromiseJuly 10, 2025
  • 50 Years of Economic Myths Have Delivered Americans Into TechnofeudalismJuly 3, 2025
  • From SaaS to COGSware: Why the AI cognition economy changes everything about software marginsJune 30, 2025
  • Introducing Opportunity Economics: How to Make Capitalism Work for EveryoneJune 24, 2025
  • Economics is not a ScienceJune 24, 2025
  • How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy PocketsJune 24, 2025
  • Your Mainstream Economics Decoder RingJune 22, 2025
  • Trump’s Iran War Is About Christian Nationalism – Here’s Why Analysts Miss ItJune 19, 2025
  • Goodbye Attention Economy, Hello Cognition Economy: From Books to BotsJune 16, 2025
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