The Present Described by the Dead Internet Theory, and the Future Opened by NIN.Earth
Why the Familiar Internet Feels Strange
We are beginning to feel an unfamiliar distance from the internet we once knew.
Search results repeat the same auto-generated sentences, and a flood of bot-made content pushes genuine human interaction to the margins.
This feeling is captured by the 'Dead Internet Theory'.
It suggests that the internet is no longer a place where people come and go, share experiences, and build meaning, but a distribution system shaped by AI and algorithmic control.
But stopping here and declaring that “the internet is dead” overlooks human creativity.
Predictions that technology would replace humans have always existed, yet every time, we created new ways to communicate, connect, and shape the next era ourselves.
What Smart Glasses Reveal About the Next Internet
If the Dead Internet Theory diagnoses the present, our task is not to repeat that diagnosis but to imagine how an internet centered on human experience can be formed again.
In this moment, Smart-glasses naturally draw attention. Smart glasses pull information out of flat screens and layer it onto specific points in the real world.
This shows that the internet can expand into a form connected to physical space.
In other words, information that once floated abstractly across the web may be reorganized based on physical location, giving users something they can verify, trust, and control.
If the Dead Internet Theory explains why the current internet feels strange, Smart glasses reflect that question back onto the real world and make us ask what kind of internet we truly want next.
A Spatial Internet Experiment: The Future NIN.Earth Aims to Build
Building an internet connected to physical space requires a new structure.
The spatial model proposed by NIN.Earth is not simply a 3D interface.
By linking information and digital experiences to fixed real-world coordinates, it creates limits that make it harder for bots or AI-generated content to spread uncontrollably.
This structure increases transparency about where and by whom information is created.
It offers a small but meaningful path toward recovering the human-centered familiarity and authenticity the early internet once had.
Beyond today’s digital fatigue, we must clearly choose an internet where genuine human experience can live again.
By imagining and building a system that connects the web to physical locations, we can guide the next era of the internet(the Metaverse) toward renewal, not decline.
