On the first point, I'm not sure. I definitely agree that left to their own devices the AIbros would just keep expanding and battling each other and chasing ever more pie in the sky. But I don't think they'll be left to themselves. I think the MBAs will move in and take over, and it'll shift to standard corporate tactics of buyouts and mergers and bankruptcies and liquidations, and inevitable consolidation. On the second, I agree. I think the web is actually going to effectively split into a commercial system of monolithic corporations and subscriptions and fixed hardware and a much less formal true web of small servers and self hosting and ad hoc networks.

Who pays for your servers and static ip.

It's encryption has been broken for some time now, which leaves it vulnerable to some pretty serious security issues. On top of the obvious issue of people with the right know-how just listening to your calls and reading your texts, which you probably don't want. (It's also how most cops/feds tap phones these days.)

I'm in a rural place and I just have DSL for my house and LTE for my phone. Lived here 20 years and that's the worst thing about it.

My mistake. So many names for so many shitty corporations, can't keep track of them. Guess it makes sense: CBS cowed, pay us more for the non-propaganda! When can we throw em all in the tar pit?