The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World

by Gabriel Rene

As our trust has increasingly shifted to digital formats, we don’t so much trust our senses or our spirit guides as much as we trust the data. Tesla drivers today have three options for driving. Drive yourself. Trust your senses. Let god drive. Trust the spirit. Let the car drive. Trust the data. Increasingly we will be relying on data to inform and drive the operations and activities of our world, our markets, our energy, transportation, health, and entertainment. Data integrity and our ability to interrogate its provenance and history will be central to our ability to trust anything of real importance in the future. Finally, by allowing data ownership to move from companies and governments back to individuals, not only are individuals able to trust that the data they use can be validated through decentralized mechanisms but also organizations and governments can trust that they have reduced their own exposure to liability and risk associated with storage of such sensitive personal information.