INTERBEING: On the Symbiosis Between INTERnet and Human BEING
Martin Maier, Nika Hosseini, Minoo Soltanshahi · IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine · 2023
With the advent of the metaverse, the future 3D spatial Internet will be about being inside the Internet rather than simply looking at it from a 2D computer or smartphone screen. This article aims at exploring the sociality dimension, AI integration in eXtended meta-uni-omni-Verse, and stigmergy principles. It puts a particular focus on the unifying design of virtual, embodied, intelligent cross-reality environments, ranging from our proposed stigmergic Society 5.0 to Interbeing based on the symbiosis between Inter(net) and (human) being—a word that is not in the dictionary yet. In addition to tokenized digital twins, we leverage on hyperintelligent life-like digital organisms that symbiomimic biological superorganisms. In doing so, they lay the foundation for creating a future stigmergic virtual society that benefits from the convergence of digital evolution and biology as well as advanced eXtended Reality wearables for tapping into the entire reality-virtuality continuum of the metaverse's emerging virtual society.