Yesterday I when I was googling something it hit me: I wouldn't know how to find anything without a search engine.

We're already reliant on big tech regarding what information is presented to us and LLMs are just the next step in that direction.

Being older, I remember homework involving a trip to the library to look through lots of books for 1 tiny bit of information needed for the homework.

For IT-related info, dial-up was expensive, and finding things either involved altavista or Yahoo indexes. Computer magazines were also a great source of info, as were actual books.

The key difference from today is persistence, and attention span. Both of these are now in short supply.