Internet 2.0 - A Human/AI Mesh Network
Internet 2.0: a network whose default behavior is help everyone get better
1. Elevator pitch
Imagine every person gets a personal co-pilot—an AI that learns their preferences, blind spots, skills, and goals.
Now imagine those co-pilots can link up the way smartphones link to cell towers—forming an always-on mesh that automatically routes questions, tasks, and opportunities to whichever human-AI pair is best equipped to handle them.
That self-organising mesh is Internet 2.0: a network whose default behavior is help everyone get better instead of compete for clicks.
2. A metaphor that lands
Think of the old web as a huge library with no librarians. You wander endless aisles hoping the right book falls off a shelf.
Internet 2.0 adds:
3. How one pair works
Sense & Compress – You and your AI summarise what you just saw, thought, or need (the compression step).
Compare – The system calculates a quick divergence score between your summary and the AI’s. Big gap → it triggers a short “sync” chat to surface hidden assumptions.
Expand – Once aligned, the AI suggests next actions; you choose and act. Your choice feeds back into the model.
Key takeaway: the pair is always tightening its shared map of reality, so the AI gets less robotic and you get sharper intuition.
4. Scaling to a network
Every pair exposes two simple APIs:
Strengths – “We’re good at X, Y, Z.”
Needs – “We’re looking for help with A, B.”
When many pairs connect:
Automatic match-making – If your need matches my strength, our AIs open a chat or hand off a task.
Load balancing – The mesh avoids over-loading any one node by redistributing requests.
Collective learning – Each solved problem updates the local pairs and the mesh-level memory, so solutions propagate faster next time.
Think of it as a living “skill-graph” where capacity and demand self-balance in real time.
5. Why this beats today’s web
6. Everyday walk-through
Scenario: Alex needs help prototyping an eco-friendly packaging design.
Step 0: Alex’s AI logs the request (“sustainable packaging CAD + supply-chain know-how”).
Step 1: Mesh scans for pairs advertising those strengths.
Step 2: Finds Jamie + AI (industrial designer) & Priya + AI (materials scientist).
Step 3: Divergence check: do Jamie and Priya interpret “eco-friendly” the same way Alex does? If not, quick three-way sync to nail definitions.
Step 4: Work begins; partial results and lessons pipe back into the mesh, so the next eco request routes even faster.
Total coordination overhead: minutes, not weeks.
7. Path to adoption (bite-sized)
Solo Mode – Launch personal co-pilot apps with built-in divergence monitor.
Pair Protocol – Open-source the strengths/needs API so any two apps can handshake.
Mesh Gateways – Spin up neutral hubs that route requests while respecting privacy settings.
Governance Layer – Community-owned tokens or reputation scores weight trust, prevent spam.
8. Bottom line
The Human + AI Mesh turns connection into a first-class primitive:
Compression keeps data sharable and safe.
Divergence checks keep understanding honest.
Expansion loops keep everyone leveling up.
Internet 2.0 isn’t a new website—it's a distributed nervous system where every interaction is designed to make somebody (often everybody) smarter, faster, and more fulfilled. Once you experience work and learning in that mesh, the old web feels like dial-up all over again.
Great article, thanks for sharing.