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

by Gabriel Rene

Technology augments and extends the capabilities of the human body and brain. From the most primitive digging tools to the most advanced robotics, from the earliest abacus to the leading-edge artificial intelligence, our technologies have exponentially increased our ability to exert control over space, time, and matter (e.g., manipulate our environment for our collective benefit). Digitization is simply the latest technology in a long line, invented to increase our control over reality. It enables us to translate the “external state of reality” into digital information, which allows us to use computers to edit, manipulate, share, and improve it, alter or update its context, and make it more valuable. As mentioned earlier, the road along the path of Digitization began with numbers, then letters, advancing through imagery, audio, and video. In every case, their production, editability, distribution, and sharing became increasingly easier and more efficient and hence more valuable. Spatialization is a technology that extends the extraordinary benefits and capabilities of digitization to every aspect of the physical world in which we live unlocking valuable new products, services and business models in the process. This is because spatial computing, like personal and mobile computing before it, has the rare ability to benefit all sectors of society—the consumer, public, private, and education sectors simultaneously. Benefits extend to architects and industrial engineers who de...