The Time Wasting Leviathan: How Our Fears Are Clogging the Internet The promise of AI was to free humanity's collective attention span for more meaningful pursuits, but instead we're stuck in a digital purgatory.
A sea of cookie banners, CAPTCHAs, and unreadable fine print chokes our online experience. The culprit is our own fear – specifically, the fear of being sued.
Mark Penn has recently proposed five fixes to clear this clutter: streamlining consent dashboards, adopting biometric security systems, extending passkeys to CAPTCHAs, eliminating registration walls for content access, and providing plain English summaries for terms and conditions.