"The Wayforward Machine is shocking only in its monumental hypocrisy and sick, shameless twisting of reality to push Big Tech's agenda of zero accountability."
If you haven't yet seen it, Wayforward Machine is the Internet Archive's latest fun toy.
You hop onto the site, enter your choice of URL, and the software will simulate the exact opposite of the Wayback Machine's renowned function. It will present the Internet Archive's vision not of our digital history, but of our digital future - circa 2046.
Except it's not a fun toy. The Wayforward Machine is a sick and twisted propaganda ploy by the Big Tech collective. We know from the involvement of the "digital rights" groups and usual suspects like Wikipedia and Mozilla, that this is a Big Tech lobby, not a game. And it's a propaganda campaign I predicted in my article Big Tech's Secret Fear: The Disappearing Web. This is the sqwawk of petulance that proves cybertech is quaking in its boots about losing its unfettered stewardship of other people's content. As a prediction in Wayforward's timeline of doom puts it…