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The Post-Human Internet|Stellan Unnes

The Post-Human Internet : On Agents, Non-Human Majority, and the Redesign of Presence, Power, and Meaning in the Network Era

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Overview

On June 3, 2026, for the first time in the internet's history, more than half of all web traffic was not generated by a human being.

No announcement was made. The number moved past fifty percent, and the network humanity built to connect itself became, without fanfare, primarily occupied by something else.

The Post-Human Internet is the reckoning that moment demands. Drawing on cutting-edge research in AI infrastructure, legal philosophy, cognitive science, and network economics, this book maps what it actually means - technically, legally, economically, and existentially - when the primary user of the global communications network is no longer a person.

What you will find inside:

  • Why automation is growing eight times faster than human traffic - and has no projected ceiling
  • How AI agents now outnumber humans in enterprise environments by 109 to 1
  • Why the behavioral signals that distinguish human from machine are collapsing under AI mimicry
  • How the legal frameworks built to hold technology accountable were designed for a world that no longer exists
  • What synthetic consensus is doing to democratic epistemology - and why standard countermeasures are failing
  • Whether AI agents deserve moral consideration - and what the evidence from frontier AI welfare research actually shows
  • How to redesign the internet for mixed human-agent populations without sacrificing human legibility, accountability, or agency

This is not a book about artificial intelligence replacing humanity. It is a book about what happens when the tool becomes the environment - and the builders discover they are living inside what they made.

The agents are here. The question is what we owe each other - human and non-human alike - now that they are.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798181461949
  • ISBN-10: 9798181461949
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: June 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.26 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.39 pounds
  • Page Count: 124

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