I'm worried about the web. I don't want to live in a world where most users of internet-connected devices consume their information and accomplish their tasks via a chatbot interface. I don't want these interactions to be filtered, watered-down, reformatted, and ultimately decided by a few. I want the web that I grew up with to remain: direct linking, independent publishing, view-source culture, and the ability to publish and browse without permission from an authority. I want its openness, its diversity, its weirdness. All of it. A chatbot-mediated web comes with risks: less creativity, less uniqueness, less discovery. It's a...