Manhattan was once wetlands and farmland. As the years passed, skyscrapers rose and it became a global hub of finance and culture — yet the land did not change.
Gangnam is the same. Fields and paddies turned into a district of towers and officetels, yet the land remained.
Rome, too — layer upon layer of cities built upon ancient ruins.
Ages may change, yet the land holds every trace of history.
Can the Internet ever have land?
Land does not change
From long experience, we know: land does not change.
The face of a city may be transformed, yet new stories are told upon the same ground.
No land is in the Internet
But in the world of the Internet, there is no unchanging “Place” — no land.
Countless contents and services have risen and vanished, yet their traces are not wholly preserved.
Something unchanging: Bitcoin & Virtual real estate
Bitcoin has shown us an incorruptible, permanent record of transactions, and with it, the belief that something unchanging can exist in the digital realm.
In 2021, people flocked to “virtual real estate” built on the idea of a digital Earth — because they hoped for an Internet Space that would not change.
Yet, sadly, those platforms failed to show us what a true “Place” in the Internet could be.
A tile on the Digital Earth, recorded on the blockchain, upon which content, services, and many other elements are interconnected — this is the kind of foundation that can serve as the Internet’s “Land.”
In the Internet, could we ever have a ground that endures forever?
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