The Metaweb: The Next Level of the Internet

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Early Reviews
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
What We Stand For
About the Author
Introduction
	The Ant on the Page
	The Web Cake
	Notes
Part 1: Today\'s Web
Chapter 1: It\'s Probably Nothing
	Do We Need Each Other to Learn?
	A Web Lacking Context
	A Daily Action Often Taken for Granted
	But Could There be Another Way?
	A Recipe for Collaboration
	What\'s Attention Got to Do with It?
	What Could be More Urgent?
	What We Cover in This Book
	Notes
Chapter 2: The Three Generations of the Web
	We\'re Still in the Early Days
	Web 1.0: The Read-Only Web
	Web 2.0: The Read-Write Web
	Web 3.0: The Read-Write-Execute Web
	The Control Problem
	Virtually Immersive
	Web3: The On-Chain Web
	Web 4.0 is on the Way
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Vagaries of Today\'s Web
	The Integral Accident
	The Bogus Web
		The Web Has No Accountability
		The Rug Pull
		Mo Money, Mo Problems
		What Makes Us So Vulnerable to Scams
		Your Data Are Not Safe
	The Abusive Web
		Hate Speech and Violence
		Unfettered Access to NSFW Content
	The Misleading Web
	Approaching a Point of No Return
	Notes
Chapter 4: Pay with Your Attention
	The Scarcity of Attention
	Monetizing Attention
	Information in Silos and Rodents in Mazes
		Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers
	Undesirable Aspects of the Attention Economy
		Polarization
		False Virality
		Social Media Addiction
		Surveillance and Privacy Concerns
		Data Exploitation
		Censorship
	The Metacrisis
	Notes
Chapter 5: Are We Cognitively Free?
	The Answer Lies within Search
	The Attention Economy Is Dominated by Two Firms
	But How Does This Affect Our Cognition?
	The Desert of the Real
	Structural Limits to Value
	Notes
Part 2: What We Need
Chapter 6: What the World Needs Now
	The Price of Progress
	The SDGs Tell us to Take Urgent Action
	Regulation of the Web: Past, Present, and Future
		Modern Big Tech Scrutiny
		The Current Picture
		The Future of Regulation
	The End of the Web As We Know It
	Notes
Chapter 7: A Web That Supports the Shift
	How Collectively Intelligent Are We?
	Technology as a Driver for Transformational Change
		Exponential Growth
		Increasing Capability
		Increasing Pervasiveness
		Increasing Connectedness
	Two Loop Theory of Change
	Notes
Part 3: The Metaweb
Chapter 8: The Web\'s Big Missing Feature
	A Strong Browser?
	An Overlooked Prediction from a Silicon Valley Legend
	A Behavior That Has Existed for Centuries
	Annotation Has Always Been Part of the Web
		The Era of Invention
		The Era of Experimentation
	Notes
Chapter 9: The Emergence of the Metaweb
	A Multi-Layered Web Cake
	The Top Level of the Web Cake
	The Metaweb Experience
	An Eddy in the River
	Beyond Computational Thinking
		Liberating Ourselves from Computational Thinking
	Notes
Chapter 10: The Cairns in the Rabbit Hole
	The Spark
	What the Trivium Tells Us
	How the Web Compares to the Human Brain
	A Synaptic Web of Links
	The Bridge Patent
	Connectedness as a Measure of Health
	The Impact of Breakthrough Knowledge
	The Long Tail
	A Map for the Web
		A Map for the Internet. How Would that Work?
	The Emergence of the Overweb
	Notes
Chapter 11: The Link and the Bridge
	The Landscape of Linking
	The Limitations of Links
	The Power of Bridges
	The Universal Content Graph
	The Many Uses of Bridges
		Discerning the Real from the False
	Building the Internet of Ideas
	Notes
Chapter 12: The Overweb Pattern
	The Three Pillars
		Safe Digital Space
		Real-Time On-Page Presence
		On-Page Interactions
	The Seven Cornerstones
		Sovereign Identity
		Fair Value Exchange
		Data Control and Compensation
		Symbiotic AI
		Contextual Relevance
		Radical Transparency
		Attention Triggered
	The Overweb Bill of Rights
		Privacy
		Security
		Data Sovereignty
			Cognitive Freedom
		Context
		Safety
		Transparency
		Free Speech
		Expression
		Presence
	The Presence Browser Overlay
		Canopi
	Overweb Building Blocks
		Smart Tags
		Overlay Apps
		Meta-Communities
		Smart Filter
		Smart Generator
		MORCS
		Meta Domains and Adjacent Spaces
	Overweb Rewards
		The Rewards Token
		Earning Rewards
		Contextual Advertising
	The Web4 Foundation
	Notes
Chapter 13: Fixing the Web
	Scams
	Abuse
	False Information
		Citizen Fact-Checking
	Building Trust in Politics through Context
	Attention Economy to Value Economy
	Cognitive Freedom
	Collective Cognitive Capabilities
	Notes
Chapter 14: Into the Looking Glass
	Reality Switching
	Extending to Other Realities
	Ubiquitous Context
	Connecting within and to the Spatial Web
	Connecting within and to the Metaverse
	Connecting within and to the Conceptual Realm
	Notes
Chapter 15: What Becomes Possible
	A New Social Contract
	Connecting People Who Need to Meet
	Shift Journalism
	Shift Online Education
	Defragging the Web by Connecting Languages
	A Pan African Meta-Community
	A Metabook
	Contextual Advertising
	Maintaining Safety, Accountability, and Privacy
	Personalized Healthcare and Wellness
	Collective Intelligence
	Mapping the Collective Mind
	Self-Knowledge
	Training AI
	Transforming Twitter
		The Digital Town Library
		A Collective Knowledge System
		The Elusive Boundary Infrastructure
	Notes
Chapter 16: Your Move
	Finding Your Place
	Are You a Bridger?
	Our Community
	Broad Applicability
	Metaweb Mindset for Creators
	Metaweb Mindset for Builders
	Let\'s Head in This Direction
	A Bicycle for the Mind
	Bicycles for the Collective Mind
	A New Winning Narrative
	The Internet\'s Savage Daughter
	Notes
Epilogue: United We Compute or Divided We Fall
	Let\'s Go Again Sally
	The Problem Is Bigger than We Imagine
	In the Footsteps of Ants
	Today\'s Web is Far from Decentralized Even with Web3
	Leaping from Web3 to Web5
	Enter the Metaweb
	Towards Collective Intelligence
	Notes
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