In order to achieve a secure, unified digital and physical Spatial Web, we need a standardized way to identify People, Places, and Things (universal identity), a way to locate People, Places, and Things (universal address), a way to validate what we see and who we talk to (trusted data records) and an easy way to pay for goods and services anywhere we go across physical or virtual worlds (digital currency and web wallet). Most importantly, we need a way for all these things to seamlessly communicate together (a spatial programming language and protocol) that no one person, corporation, or
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