# Websites are not the web

May 22, 2025 · web-design, ai, future-of-software, theory

Canonical: https://www.romellogoodman.com/writing/websites-are-not-the-web
Originally published: https://mellogood.substack.com/p/websites-are-not-the-web

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> Sometimes reading about AI and the web feels like people saying that magazine subscriptions are over and everyone is getting their information from TV therefore we dont need paper anymore. In my opinion websites are not the web and there is still soooo much for us to explore focusing on the later that isnt based on marketing, comms, ad based experiences

I posted this at work and it rings truer each day. Here are some perspectives that are helping me think through this era of the web.

## The death of the current web

* [Browse No More](https://paulstamatiou.com/browse-no-more)

## A possible future, the poetic web

* [Config London 2025: The web hasn't happened yet with Nick Jones & Devin Jacoviello](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadLRCdViPU)

## A possible future, the agentic web

* [Microsoft's plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap](https://www.theverge.com/web/669437/nlweb-microsoft-ai-agents-open-web)
* [Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI can save the web, not destroy it](https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/669409/microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-interview-ai-natural-language-search-openai)

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