The Wired

The Wired is the 3D web. It is the 3D representation of hypermedia.

Hypermedia Functor (F: 2D -> 3D)

Space

An important distinction here is the difference between a 2D page and a 3D space, from the perspective of a human.

A 2D page (a piece of paper) cannot meaningfully be inhabited by a 3D being (a human). The best you can do is projection — reducing the entity's dimensionality to a 2D icon (mouse cursor, profile picture) or even a 1D point (tip of a pencil).

This has obvious flaws if your goal is self-expression (or any downstream goal from this, such as communication). Put in other words, The Web offers symbolic reality, whereas The Wired offers embodied reality.

Multi-tenancy

Any embodied space, by its nature^[1][2], admits the possibility of multiple tenants. This is a structural property of navigable environments. Because of this, The Wired represents hypermedia as an inherently shared space — a multiplayer environment — as opposed to the isolated pages of The Web.

Humanism

All of this combines to make The Wired a much more "human" interface for information.

I like to think this will help push back against the growing negatives of our reliance on technology — creating a medium where people speak with their voice, arm movements, and facial expressions — not text; where people see with their eyes and interact with their hands — not a manufactured image or uninteractive video; where people dance with their bodies — not a purchased emote or reaction GIF.

That said, a stronger embodiment (or entrapment) of the soul within metal may only serve to make things worse.

References

1. Heidegger's notion of Dasein describes human existence as fundamentally situated in space, inherently capable of shared presence and interaction (Being and Time).
2. In topology, a space is defined by its openness and connectedness, implying it can be occupied by multiple distinct points simultaneously.