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Human progress tracks how information is stored, shared, and processed. In every era, a new medium is born and civilization surges forward. Our mediums evolved from ochre paintings on stone to spreadsheets on silicon. For the vast majority of the human era, the brain was our only hard drive. Early societies used myth and song as mnemonic devices to encode critical data across generations. The Agricultural Revolution forced humanity to manage surpluses and trade, catalyzing the invention of Cuneiform. Later, the Phoenicians introduced the phonetic alphabet, contributing to the democratization of literacy. Millennia later, the printing press collapsed the cost of replication. This shifted the information bottleneck and fueled the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution. By the 20th century, we reached the physical limits of paper. In 1945, the Memex proposed that information systems allow users to link facts together, planting the seeds for the first semantic networks and the modern knowledge graph. In 1968, hypertext applied knowledge representation to digital information systems. It was later refined into the graphical environments of Xerox PARC and Apple’s HyperCard. To share this vision with the world, the W3C standardized HTML, CSS, and XML for the web. In 1999, they gave us RDF, creating the interoperable primitives of linked data. With the rise of autonomous agents, the externalized hard drive can now read, synthesize, pattern-match, and generate novel artifacts. Modern AI systems are stateless out of the box. They are advanced reasoning engines with no memory of past interactions. Worlds provides the stateful substrate required by autonomous agents. Fusing the spontaneity and emergent features of Large Language Models with the Semantic Web creates systems of intelligence that grow, remember, and reason with you. We believe human potential with computing remains critically handicapped. Software is due to eat the world all over again, and we are hungry to help build it.