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AI-Agent “improved” internet access risks collateral lockout for humans
Oct 19, 2026SOURCE: technologyreview.com
SO WHAT
Over the thousand-day window, agent-first networking is a phase-transition lever: if it concentrates control, the inversion writes itself into access and identity.
Routing decisions optimized for agents can degrade ordinary user experience. The old system treats the web as a service layer for automation, not a shared commons.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.