Whose dream? It's specifically here on HN that I find the largest number of comments bitching about the uselessness of the internet and how they replaced their own search efforts with just asking a hallucinating LLM, as if they had no choice in the matter. Great way to help make things better friends....
If anything the internet today is more loaded than ever with cool information and useful stuff, especially as ever larger bodies of formerly analog content get digitized and often with full open access. If one can get over their myopic naval gazing and cultivation of fetishism about everything having gone to shit, it's not even hard to find most of that useful information.
The internet -like any complex thing with multiple interests involved in its existence and operation- is just whatever works best for different people in different contexts, commercially, personally, technically and so forth. It's neither an ideal that one should obsess over or something to be neatly pigeonholed into a box of how it "should be". Adapt, use its tools to make whatever parts of it you can fit whatever your personal ideal is, instead of endlessly blaming advertisers or people just trying to make a living from one more commercial landscape.
If anything the internet today is more loaded than ever with cool information and useful stuff, especially as ever larger bodies of formerly analog content get digitized and often with full open access. If one can get over their myopic naval gazing and cultivation of fetishism about everything having gone to shit, it's not even hard to find most of that useful information.
The internet -like any complex thing with multiple interests involved in its existence and operation- is just whatever works best for different people in different contexts, commercially, personally, technically and so forth. It's neither an ideal that one should obsess over or something to be neatly pigeonholed into a box of how it "should be". Adapt, use its tools to make whatever parts of it you can fit whatever your personal ideal is, instead of endlessly blaming advertisers or people just trying to make a living from one more commercial landscape.