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# Manifesto

> The next default for human knowledge

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 to spreadsheets.

For the vast majority of the human era, the brain was our only hard drive. Early
societies used [myth and song](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition) as
mnemonic devices to encode critical data across generations.

The Agricultural Revolution forced humanity to manage surpluses and trade,
catalyzing the invention of
[Cuneiform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform). Later, the Phoenicians
introduced the
[phonetic alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet),
contributing to the democratization of literacy.

Millennia later, the
[printing press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press) collapsed the
cost of replication. This shifted the information bottleneck and fueled the
[Renaissance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance) and the
[Scientific Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Revolution).

By the 20th century, we reached the physical limits of paper. In 1945, the
[Memex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex) proposed that information systems
allow users to link facts together, planting the seeds for the first semantic
networks and the modern
[knowledge graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph).

In 1968, [hypertext](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext) applied knowledge
representation to digital information systems. It was later refined into the
graphical environments of
[Xerox PARC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_\(company\)) and Apple's
[HyperCard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard).

To share this vision with the world, the
[W3C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium) standardized
HTML, CSS, and XML for the web. In 1999, they gave us
[RDF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework), 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 is the architectural engine for personalized software. It provides the
stateful substrate required by autonomous agents to bridge the gap between
statistical mimicry and intentional agency.

Fusing the spontaneity of Large Language Models with the Semantic Web
[sculpts a probability landscape](/worlds/alignment) that steers
high-dimensional behavior through individual preference data.

We believe human potential with computing remains critically handicapped.
Software is due to eat the world all over again.