For those of us who suffered from naive optimism, it wasn't unusual to assume this would continue to accelerate into some kind of singularity where our children's children would evolve into glowing entities of pure knowledge. In reality, it all broke down, and in particular, with the creation of AI spew, we have applied a destructive and unrecoverable lossy filter to the collected knowledge and wisdom of all human creation. We were gifted the ultimate library, and we put a match to it.