Web 3.0 is Dead, long live AI Platform Lock-In
Web 3.0 failed because it tried to decentralise an internet that had already committed itself to platforms, app stores, managed identities, and vendor lock-in. Artificial Intelligence does not resist that trajectory. It completes it. Instead of asking users to take more control, it offers to mediate more of the network on their behalf, turning search into synthesis, browsing into prompting, and the open web into a resource increasingly filtered through a handful of powerful intermediaries.