A pre­mo­ni­tion is growing. I believe large swaths of the internet will be ceded, like it or not, to the crea­tures of the dig­ital night: ghostly bots, cack­ling trolls, the baying hounds of attention. I imagine this future internet as a vast, boiling miasma, punc­tu­ated by signal towers poking up into the clear air: blogs & shops, bea­cons of reality & sincerity, nodes of a human overlay network.

— Robin Sloan, Unreliable narrators, 2025