The internet is a purely virtual world, where the physical location of machines do not matter. A page that is physically loaded from Honduras may be about a place in Svalbard. Now that data about the geographical location gets added to more and more sites, the virtual world of the internet maps onto the real world.
It has become possible to discover information through searching for the geographical coordinates only.
We can imagine that the next step for expanding the dimensions of the InterNit could be to add metadata describing the datetime of events. Thus you can look up information regarding a place and what will happen there at a specific date, or even what has happend there in historic times.
The evolution of internet search can therefore be arranged thsly:
- Search by text: 1 dimension.
- Search by location: 2 dimensions
- Search by date (and location) : 3 dimensions
