From Web to World
1. The Collapse of Physical and Linguistic Boundaries
The development of airplanes and high-speed transportation has given humanity an unprecedented freedom of movement.
With the addition of real-time AI translation technologies, language barriers are also rapidly disappearing.
Human beings are no longer confined by national borders or languages. We now move freely across the globe, encountering unfamiliar places as part of everyday life.
As mobility becomes a normal condition of living, we expect to access information and continue social and economic activities wherever we are. Simply staying in one place and “looking up” information is no longer enough.
The internet is now being asked to adapt to a mobile way of life — one where information must be immediately accessible and usable within the very space we are standing in.
2. A Reordering of Devices
This shift is also reshaping the order of devices through which we consume information.
Access environments once fixed to desktop PCs have expanded onto the streets through mobile devices. Now, displays are moving beyond rectangular frames and turning toward physical reality itself.
This is not merely a matter of hardware advancement. It is a signal that the place where information belongs is changing to match a human life defined by constant movement.
Information no longer wants to remain confined within screens. It demands to exist simultaneously with the spaces we inhabit.
<The Limits of the Web Structure>
The web was designed to connect documents, not spaces. Hypertext and URLs operate by prioritizing “what is being referenced” over “where it is located.”
As a result, the web can reference space, but it cannot build structures upon it.
In the face of mobile humans and devices oriented toward physical space, a page-centered web architecture reveals clear limitations in binding experience and context into a single, continuous flow.
3. The Next Internet: Toward a Digital Earth
What we now need is a Digital Earth—one that is universally recognizable, intuitively familiar, and precisely aligned with real-world coordinate systems.
A structure in which space itself becomes the fundamental unit of the internet, and information is organized not on pages, but on coordinates.
This is the essence of the transition from Web to World—the next generation of the internet.
NIN.Earth demonstrates that a new internet order can operate on a Digital Earth directly connected to the real world.
