The Spatial Web: How web 3.0 will connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world Paperback – August 27, 2019

This book is a brilliant view into the next decade of explosive technological growth and how we will be shaped by it, and how these innovations will supercharge how the human mind has always worked. The big idea is that the human mind has evolved to understand 3D space, and the next tech revolutions will engage the ways that we intuitively understand the world, as objects in space that are intelligent. The first part of the book tracks our media evolution, from languange and math to the internet, and then extends these patterns into future tech evolution, tracking the evolutionary stages of the internet and where it will go in the next decade. Later it contrasts how this tech has diverged away from the way the human mind works, an intuitive symbol generating machine, and it is now converging, for better or worse, around human cognition, empowering it with a magical field of possiblities and threatening it with incomprehensible advancement.Later in the book, the authors explore the darker side of tech, from the pathologies of social media to scary AI, to the dark web, and how what you don't know could very definitely hurt you. It goes through the problems, and limitations of each phase of internet history, and how successive phases solved these problems, and introduced new ones. Even though the journey covers a lot of technical ground, I thought it was very well written and an enjoyable read.As a 3D artist/creative coder, I found it thrilling to follow along these evolutionary journeys, of tech and the mind, and how they will evolve and converge in this incredibly exciting period in history. It is overwhelming to consider the implications of the crushing waves of new tech. This book offers a tour that is insightful, thrilling, and ultimately optimistic.

This thought provoking book will give you a peek into a future that is both exciting and positive. The Spatial Web creates hope and confidence that we can transform our world to sustainability, true connectedness of humanity for the first time and a Smartworld where we can do so much more good than ever before.We've been through the agricultural and industrial ages, times that brought us to near abyss, where we are dealing with climate change that is snowballing. With all the 'progress' we've made we still are not truly connected, because we still don't get along as one would expect even with the 'advances' over the past 200 years. We've used up valuable resources and social problems are getting worse.The technology renaissance we are coming into because of VR, AR, IoT, Block Chain, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Smart Twins are going to change the world for the better when The Spatial Web is launched. Rene and Mapes eloquently paint a picture of how the world is soon going to change for the better. AR and VR are not gimmicks.The first version of the world wide web was created to put pages and text all together in one place for the world to read (HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). The structure of it was not designed for 2D and 3D. Going beyond text the past 20 years, turning the Internet into commerce and banking, social media and loss of privacy has brought on a dark side. Trillions of dollars are lost each year to hacking and schemes; we all know the other nefarious aspects of the Internet today.The soon to be Spatial Web puts forth a promise to make the Internet accountable for every keystroke. Blockchain and DLT are going to correct the wrongs and make it far safer than we could expect it to be. Smart Twins, Block Chain and DLT will create a Chain of Custody legitimizing what we will experience.I did not know a book about the Internet could give me so much hope for humankind and our future. The new Spatial Web (HSTP) will play an integral and surprising part of advancing sustainable farming, supply chain, collaboration and ultimately building a Smarter World, where everyone benefits.

As someone interested in connecting all the cool tech stuff together to basically turn the world into Tony Stark's holograms, this book seemed right up my alley. However, it took me a while to read because I found it very technical, and there were some parts that felt rather repetetive in nature—a lot of different variations of "We need a Spatial Web." That being said, for the tech-literate, this book is a goldmine of information and the entire book reads like it's aimed at the people who could build us this intricate web of really cool stuff. The authors address the very real problems and security risks that come from trying to build a spatial web based on Web 2.0's faulty and fractured foundation. Thankfully, the authors later provide interesting solutions to these security problems, but I will admit most of it went over my head! My company is heading toward digitization and a true Spatial Web would catapult our industry into the future so fast. Here's hoping a true Spatial Web will come in the somewhat near future!