Cuil Theory, in 2008, was my Ocelot Six moment.

Once I realized how well AI could babble given the entire internet to date’s data, and after seeing a talk by Google about their ten-year plan in 2003, I started winding down my social media, stopped posting photos to Flickr, and removed the indexes to my blog archive so that only posts with permalinks from other sites would be discoverable. Skipped Instagram entirely in the process and have never regretted it.

Google bought Cuil, of course.