Michael Herman Chief Digital Officier Web 7.0 Foundation
JUNE 2, 2026
Abstract
Computing is undergoing a seismic shift from client/server and cloud computing to decentralization, a change of greater importance and impact compared to the transition from i) mainframe to client/server and ii) client/server to cloud computing. Speculation abounds on how this new era will evolve in the coming years, and IT leaders have a critical need for an unclouded vision of where the industry is heading. The author believes the best way to form this vision is to understand the underlying economics driving the long-term trend toward decentralization. In this report, we describe the importance of decentralization and assess its economics through in-depth modelling. This report builds on the economic knowledge of several researchers and practitioners. The report draws on landmark works in platform economics, network effects, and technology disruption to build a rigorous framework for understanding the long-term implications of decentralization for Information Technology.
This article describes Web 7.0 Pando™ Decentralized Library OS – with a specific focus on the Web 7.0 NeuromorphicAgent Architecture Reference Model (NAARM) used by Pando to support the creation of Web 7.0 Decentralized Societies.
The intended audience for this document is a broad range of professionals interested in furthering their understanding of Web 7.0 Pando for use in software apps, agents, and services. This includes software architects, application developers, and user experience (UX) specialists, as well as people involved in a broad range of standards efforts related to decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and secure storage.
The Second Reformation
Web 7.0 Foundation Ecosystem
“Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.” Michael Herman, Trusted Digital Web (TDW) Project, Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab, Web 7.0 Foundation. January 2023.
Web 7.0 Pando is a macromodular, neuromorphic agent platform for coordinating and executing complex systems of work that is:
Secure
Trusted
Open
Resilient
Web 7.0 Pando™ is 100% Albertan by birth and open source.
Project “Shorthorn”
Project “Shorthorn” is a parody project name based on Microsoft’s Windows “Longhorn” WinFS project (a SQL-based Windows File System project) with which the author was involved in from a design preview and feedback, consulting, and PM technical training (Groove Workspace system architecture and operation) perspectives (circa 2001-2002).
What makes Shorthorns great: – They’re good at turning grass into meat (great efficiency). – Shorthorn cows are amazing mothers and raise strong, healthy calves (nurture great offspring). – Their genetics blend well with other breeds for strong hybrid calves (plays well with others). …and so it is with Web 7.0 Pando.
Web 7.0 Foundation
The Web 7.0 Foundation, a federally-incorporated Canadian non-profit corporation, is chartered to develop, support, promote, protect, and curate the Web 7.0 ecosystem: Web 7.0 Pando operating system software, and related standards and specifications. The Foundation is based in Alberta, Canada.
What we’re building at the Web 7.0 Foundation is described in this quote from Don Tapscott and co.:
“We see an alternate path: a decentralized platform for our digital selves, free from total corporate control and within our reach, thanks to co-emerging technologies.” “A discussion has begun about “democratizing AI.” Accessibility is critical. Mostaque has argued that the world needs what he calls “Universal Basic AI.” Some in the technology industry have argued that AI can be democratized through open source software that is available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. Mostaque argues that this is not enough. “AI also needs to be transparent,” meaning that AI systems should be auditable and explainable, allowing researchers to examine their decision-making processes. “AI should not be a single capability on monolithic servers but a modular structure that people can build on,” said Mostaque. “That can’t go down or be corrupted or manipulated by powerful forces. AI needs to be decentralized in both technology, ownership and governance.” He’s right.” You to the Power Two. Don Tapscott and co. 2025.
A Word about the Past
The Web 7.0 project has roots dating back approximately 30 years to before 1998 with the release of Alias Upfront for Windows. Subsequent to the release of Upfront (which Bill Gates designated as the “most outstanding graphics product for Microsoft Windows 3.0”), the AUSOM Application Design Framework was formalized.
AUSOM Application Design Framework
AUSOM is an acronym for A User State of Mind — the name of a framework or architecture for designing software applications that are easier to design, implement, test, document and support. In addition, an application developed using the AUSOM framework is more capable of being: incrementally enhanced, progressively installed and updated, dynamically configured and is capable of being implemented in many execution environments. This paper describes the Core Framework, the status of its current runtime implementations and its additional features and benefits.
What is AUSOM?
The AUSOM Application Design Framework, developed in 1998, is a new way to design client-side applications. The original implementation of the framework is based on a few basic concepts: user scenarios and detailed task analysis, visual design using state-transition diagrams, and implementation using traditional Windows message handlers.
The original motivation for the framework grew out of the need to implement a highly modeless user interface that was comprised of commands or tasks that were very modal (e.g. allowing the user to change how a polygon was being viewed while the user was still sketching the boundary of the polygon).
The following is essentially the same advice I received from Charles Simonyi when we were both at Microsoft (and one of the reasons why I eventually left the company in 2001).
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” [Albert Einstein] “The meaning of this quote lies in Einstein’s belief that problems are not just technical failures but outcomes of deeper ways of thinking. He suggested that when people approach challenges using the same assumptions, values, and mental habits that led to those challenges, real solutions remain out of reach. Accoding to this idea, improvement begins only when individuals are willing to step beyond familiar thought patterns and question the mindset that shaped the problem.” [Economic Times]
Simonyi et al., in the paper Intentional Software, state:
For the creation of any software, two kinds of contributions need to be combined even though they are not at all similar: those of the domain providing the problem statement and those of software engineering providing the.implementation. They need to be woven together to form the program.
Web 7.0 Pando is the software for building decentralized societies.
A Word about the Future
“Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent or capable type of entity on the planet. Actually, let me take that back. The truth of that last statement depends on how we define human.” Ray Kurzweil. 1999.
NOTE: “Artificial Intelligence” (or “AI”) does not appear anywhere in the remainder of this article. The northstar of the Web 7.0 project is to be a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials – regardless of whether the outcome (a Web 7.0 network) uses AI or not. Refer to Figures 4a, 4b, and 6 for a better understanding.
DIDComm Notation, a visual language for architecting and designing decentralized systems, was used to create the figures in this article.
Value Proposition
By Personna
Business Analyst – Ability to design and execute, secure, trusted business processes of arbitrary complexity across multiple parties in multiple organizations – anywhere on the planet.
Global Hyperscaler Administrators – Ability to design and execute, secure, trusted systems administration processes (executed using PowerShell) of arbitrary complexity across an unlimited number of physical or virtual servers hosted by an unlimited number of datacenters, deployed by multiple cloud (or in-house) xAAS providers – anywhere on the planet.
App Developers – Ability to design, build, deploy, and manage secure, trusted network-effect-by-default apps of arbitrary complexity across multiple devices owned by anybody – anywhere on the planet.
Smartphone Vendors – Ability to upsell a new category of a second device, a Web 7.0 Always-on Trusted Digital Assistant – a pre-integrated hardware and software solution, that pairs with the smart device that a person already owns. Instead of a person typically purchasing/leasing one smartphone, they can now leverage a Web 7.0-enabled smartphone bundle that also includes a secure, trusted, and decentralized communications link to a Web 7.0 Always-on Trusted Digital Assistant deployed at home (or in a cloud of their choosing).
Digital Church/Religion Builders – Ability to create a new decentralized digital religion for 1 billion people in Communist China.
By Trust Relationship (Verifiable Trust Circle (VTC))
Secure, Trusted Agent-to-Agent Messaging Model
Figure 0. Simple Agent-to-Agent Communications Model
Figure 0. depicts the design of a typical simple agent-to-agent communications model. DIDComm Notation was used to create the diagram.
Web 7.0 Pando: Conceptual and Logical Architecture
The Web 7.0 architecture is illustrated in the following figure.
Figure 1. Web 7.0 Neuromorphic Agent
Figure 1 is an all-in illustration of the conceptual architecture of a Web 7.0 Neuromorphic Agent. A Web 7.0 Agent is comprised of a Frontal LOBE and the Neural Messaging pathway. An Agent communicates with the outside world (other Web 7.0 Agents) using its Outbound (Talking), Seeing, and Inbound (Listening) Interfaces. Agents can be grouped together into Neural Clusters to form secure and trusted multi-agent organisms. DIDComm/HTTP is the default secure digital communications protocol (see DIDComm Messages as the Steel Shipping Containers of Secure, Trusted Digital Communication). The Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) specification is used to define the Identity layer in the Web 7.0 Messaging Superstack (see Figure 6 as well as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as Barcodes for Secure, Trusted Digital Communication).
An agent remains dormant until it receives a message directed to it and returns to a dormant state when no more messages are remaining to be processed. An agent’s message processing can be paused without losing any incoming messages. When an agent is paused, messages are received, queued, and persisted in long-term memory. Message processing can be resumed at any time.
Additionally, an Agent can include a dynamically changing set of Coordination and Execution LOBEs. These LOBEs enable an Agent to capture events (incoming messages), compose responses (outgoing messages), and share these messages with one or more Agents (within a specific Neural Cluster or externally with the Beneficial Agent in other Neural Clusters (see Figure 5)).
What is a LOBE?
LOBE (Loadable Object Brain Extensions) is a macromodular, neuromorphic intelligence framework designed to let systems grow, adapt, and evolve by making it easy to add new capabilities at any time. Each LOBE is a dynamically Loadable Object — a self-contained cognitive module that extends the Frontal LOBE’s functionality, whether for perception, reasoning, coordination, or control (execution). Together, these LOBEs form a dynamic ecosystem of interoperable intelligence, enabling developers to construct distributed, updatable, and extensible minds that can continuously expand their understanding and abilities.
LOBEs lets intelligence and capability grow modularly. Add new lobes, extend cognition, and evolve systems that learn, adapt, and expand over time. Expand your brain. A brain that grows with every download.
What is a NeuroPlex?
A Web 7.0 Neuroplex (aka a Neuro) is a dynamically composed, decentralized, message-driven cognitive solution that spans one or more agents, each with its own dynamically configurable set of LOBEs (Loadable Object Brain Extensions). Each LOBE is specialized for a particular type of message. Agents automatically support extraordinarily efficient by-reference, in-memory, intra-agent message transfers. A Web 7.0 Neuroplex is not a traditional application or a client–server system, but an emergent, collaborative execution construct assembled from independent, socially-developed cognitive components (LOBEs) connected together by messages. Execution of a Neuroplex is initiated with a NeuroToken.
Horizontal Unbundling: Coordination and Execution Agents
Figure 2. Web 7.0 Pando: Agent Logical Architecture: Horizontal Unbundling
Figure 2 illustrates how the deployment of Coordination and Execution LOBEs can be horizontally unbundled – with each LOBE being assigned to a distinct Frontal LOBE. This is an extreme example designed to underscore the range of deployment options that are possible. Figure 3 is a more common pattern.
Horizontal Rebundling
Figure 3. Web 7.0 Pando: Agent Logical Architecture: Horizontal Rebundling
Figure 3 depicts a more common/conventional deployment pattern where, within a Neural Cluster, a small, reasonable number of Frontal LOBEs host any collection of Coordination and/or Execution LOBEs.
Minimal Execution Agent (Trusted Digital Assistant)
Figure 4a is an example of a minimal agent deployment pattern that hosts a single Trusted Digital Assistant (TDA) LOBE.
Figure 4b MCP-enabled Trusted Digital Assistant
Vertical Debundling: Web 7.0 Neural Clusters
Figure 5. Web 7.0 Pando: Agent Logical Architecture: Neural Clusters and Beneficial Agents
Figure 5 depicts the deployment of a Web 7.0 Neural Cluster. Messages external to the Neural Cluster are only sent/received from the Beneficial Agent. Any additional messaging is limited to the Beneficial, Coordination, and Execution LOBEs deployed within the boundary of a Neural Cluster. A use case that illustrates the Neural Cluster model can be found in Appendix D – PWC Multi-Agent Customer Support Use Case.
DIDComm 7.0
Figure 6a. Web 7.0 Pando: Conceptual Architecture (All-in)
Figure 6a is an all-in illustration of the conceptual architecture of a Web 7.0 Neuromorphic Agent. DIDComm Messages can be piped from the Outbound Interface of the Sender agent to the Inbound Agent of of Receiver agent – supporting the composition of secure, trusted agent-to-agent pipelines similar (but superior) to: i) UNIX command pipes (based on text streams), and ii) PowerShell pipelines (based on a .NET object pump implemented by calling ProcessObject() in the subsequent cmdlet in the pipeline).
NOTE: PowerShell does not clone, serialize, or duplicate .NET objects when moving them through the pipeline (except in a few special cases). Instead, the same instance reference flows from one pipeline stage (cmdlet) to the next …neither does DIDComm 7.0 for DIDComm Messages.
Bringing this all together, a DIDComm Message (DIDMessage) can be passed, by reference, from LOBE (Agenlet) to LOBE (Agenlet), in-memory, without serialization/deserialization or physical transport over HTTP (or any other protocol).
PowerShell
DIDComm 7.0
powershell.exe
tdwagent.exe
Cmdlet
LOBE (Loadable Object Brain Extension)
.NET Object
Verifiable Credential (VC)
PSObject (passed by reference)
DIDMessage (JWT) (passed by reference)
PowerShell Pipeline
Web 7.0 Verifiable Trust Circle (VTC)
Serial Routing (primarily)
Arbitrary Graph Routing (based on Receiver DID, Sender DID, and DID Message type)
Feedback from a reviewer: Passing DIDComm messages by reference like you’re describing is quite clever. A great optimization.
Coming to a TDW LOBE near you…
DIDComm 7.0 Superstack
Figure 6b. DIDComm 7.0 Messaging Superstack
Figure 6b illustrates the interdependencies of the multiple layers within the DIDComm 7.0 Superstack.
Technology Wheel of Reincarnation: Win32 generic.c
Figure 7. Web 7.0 Neuromorphic Agent Identity Model (NAIM)
The NAIM seeks to enumerate and identify all of the elements in the AARM that have or will need an identity (DID and DID Document). This is illustrated in Figure 7.
Table 1. Web 7.0 Neuromorphic Agent Identity Model (NAIM) Chart
Beneficiaries, Trustees, and Fiduciary Duty
Figure 8. Beneficiaries, Trustees, and Fiduciary Duty
Figure 8 highlights in red the trusts and fiduciary duty relationships between (a) a Beneficiary (Alice, the person) and (b) her Beneificiary Agent (a trustee). Similarly, any pair of agents can also have pair-wise trusts and fiduciary duty relationships where one agent serves in the role of Beneficiary and the second agent, the role of Trustee.
Appendix A – Web 7.0 Pando: Edge Agent DMZ Deployment
This section is non-normative.
Figure A-1. Web 7.0 Pando: Edge Agent DMZ Deployment
Appendix B – Web 7.0 Pando: Multiple Digital Persona Deployment
This section is non-normative.
Figure B-1. Web 7.0 Pando: Multiple Digital Persona Deployment
Alice has 2 digital personifications: Alice Smith and Alice Athlete. Each of these personifications has its own digital ID. Each of Alice’s personas also has its own Trusted Digital Assistant (TDA) – an agent or agentic neural network.
Figure B-2. Web 7.0 Networks and Trust Graph
Bob has (at least) 4 digital personifications: Bob Aggie, Bob Nova, Bob Sovronia, and Bob Developer. Using Web 7.0 Trust Graph Relationships and Verifiable Trust Credentials (VTCs), Bob can also have personas that are members of multiple Web 7.0 networks.
Appendix C – Different Brain Functionalities and Their State of Research in AI (2025)
Figure C-1. Different Brain Functionalities and Their State of Research in AI (2025)
Source: Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems. arXiv:2504.01990v2 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01990v2]. August 2025.
In Figure C-3, the Trust Library forms the Inner core and the UX LOBEs, the Crust. The Outer core is comprised of the Fast Cache and Long-Term Memory LOBEs, Neural and Basal Pathways, DID Registry, and LOBE Library. The Mantle is where the Coordination and Execution LOBEs execute.
Appendix D – PWC Multi-Agent Customer Support Use Case
Figure D-1. PWC Multi-Agent Customer Support Use Case
Source: Agentic AI – the new frontier in GenAI. PWC Middle East. 2024.
This use case exemplifies the use of the Web 7.0 Neural Cluster model. Table D-1 maps the PWC Use Case terminology to the corresponding Web 7.0 AARM terminology.
Web 7.0 NAARM
PWC Use Case
Beneficiary Agent
Master agent
Coordination Agent (and LOBEs)
Orchestrator agent
Execution Agent LOBEs
Micro-agents
Table D-1. Web 7.0 AARM – PWC Use Case Terminology Cross-Reference
The steel shipping container transformed global trade by introducing a standardized, secure, and interoperable abstraction for transporting goods. Similarly, Decentralized Identifier Communication (DIDComm) offers a standardized, secure, and interoperable mechanism for transmitting trusted digital information between agents. This paper explores the analogy between DIDComm messages and steel containers, examining their properties, benefits, and limitations, and assessing the potential of DIDComm to catalyze a transformation in digital ecosystems comparable to the shipping container revolution.
The 20th century witnessed a quiet revolution in global trade: the invention and adoption of the steel shipping container. More than faster ships or larger ports, it was standardization in how goods were packaged and transported that unlocked efficiency, scale, and global interoperability.
In the 21st century, digital ecosystems face a parallel challenge. Secure communication across heterogeneous systems remains fragmented by proprietary protocols, siloed trust frameworks, and inconsistent interoperability. Despite advances in transport protocols (HTTP, WebSocket, Bluetooth) and security primitives (TLS, OAuth, JWT), no universal standard exists for trusted, end-to-end, cross-domain messaging.
DIDComm (Decentralized Identifier Communication) aims to fill this gap. It provides a standardized envelope for secure, interoperable communication between agents in decentralized ecosystems. This paper argues that DIDComm can be understood as the steel shipping container of digital communication — a payload-agnostic, transport-agnostic, secure packaging standard that enables trust to move seamlessly across networks and domains.
Stackability: efficient storage and loading by crane.
Interoperability: ships, ports, trucks, and trains adapted to a single form factor.
Impact: Containerization reduced costs by ~90% and increased the speed and scale of global trade [Levinson, The Box, 2006]. The key insight: decouple contents from infrastructure via a universal abstraction.
3. DIDComm: A Digital Container Standard
3.1 What is DIDComm?
DIDComm is a protocol suite for secure, private, and interoperable communication using Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as endpoints. It defines how messages are packaged, encrypted, authenticated, and routed between agents.
Transport agnosticism: works over HTTP, Bluetooth, WebRTC, email, etc.
Routing via mediators: messages can traverse multiple relays without breaking end-to-end security.
Payload agnosticism: the message may carry verifiable credentials, IoT commands, or arbitrary application data.
3.3 Why It Matters
Just as containers enabled intermodal trade, DIDComm enables intermodal trust exchange. Applications, wallets, devices, and services can interoperate without bespoke integrations.
4. Mapping the Analogy: Containers vs. DIDComm
Container Property
DIDComm Equivalent
Implications
Standardized form
Envelope with defined structure (headers, body, metadata)
Guarantees interoperability across agents and vendors
Sealed & secure
Encryption + authentication
Protects against unauthorized access and tampering
Intermodal transport
Transport-agnostic delivery
Works across protocols without altering the payload
Routing via logistics
Mediators, DID resolution, forwarding
Enables flexible message delivery
Opaque contents
Encrypted payload
Only authorized parties can inspect
Global ecosystem support
Agent networks, wallets, identity hubs
Emerging infrastructure could mirror global ports and carriers
5. Benefits of the Container Analogy
Interoperability
Any DIDComm-compliant agent can process a message, just as any port can handle a container.
Security and Trust
Messages are sealed like containers, with tamper-evident cryptography.
Efficiency
Reduces the cost and complexity of building integrations across organizations.
Scalability
Supports any type of payload: credentials, IoT signals, governance instructions.
Decentralization
No reliance on a central authority; trust derives from cryptographic keys, similar to how container standards are managed by ISO, not controlled by one nation or corporation.
6. Limits of the Analogy
Physical persistence vs. digital ephemerality: Containers endure across voyages; messages vanish after delivery.
Metadata leakage: Container labels are visible; DIDComm may still expose sender/recipient metadata.
Standard stability: Container sizes have been stable for decades; DIDComm may evolve quickly.
Global adoption: Containerization achieved near-universal acceptance; DIDComm is still early in adoption.
7. Strategic Implications
7.1 Identity & Credentials
DIDComm provides a secure transport for verifiable credentials, enabling cross-border, cross-domain trust.
7.2 IoT Ecosystems
IoT devices require lightweight, trustable communication. DIDComm offers a containerized way to exchange secure commands.
7.3 Cross-Domain Interoperability
Applications in finance, healthcare, supply chains, and governance can exchange trusted data without bespoke APIs.
7.4 The “Container Moment”
Global trade was reshaped once container standards reached critical mass. DIDComm could catalyze a parallel moment in digital ecosystems if widely adopted.
8. Conclusion
The steel shipping container revolutionized trade by abstracting the packaging and transport of goods into a universal, secure standard. DIDComm has the potential to do the same for digital trust, abstracting communication into a universal, secure, and interoperable form.
If DIDComm achieves broad adoption, it could serve as the logistics backbone of the digital trust economy, enabling decentralized ecosystems to scale with the efficiency and security once brought to global commerce by steel containers.
References
Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press, 2006.
#Chickens, #Eggs, and #Roosters: A #NorthStar for the Global Decentralized Systems Community (#GDSC)
Byline: #meggDLs, #Seleggtive#Disclosure, #DEGGCOMM, and #Eggports
The entire digital identity ecosystem is missing out on the #BigOpportunity by not focusing on the right catalyst for the #massiveadoption of #digitalcredentials. Morphing the chicken and egg mental model: If Hens are the Issuers, Roosters the Verifiers, and Eggs are the digital credentials, the prime objective needs to be increasing the demand for and consumption of Eggs by Holders …creating hundreds of thousands of ways that drive more Holders to consume more Eggs. Think about it.
… are great examples of driving the demand for and consumption of more and more digital credentials [and DIDs] (eggs); and secondarily, the demand for hens and roosters (Issuers and Verifiers). The demand for eggs drives the production of hens; and in turn, the demand for roosters. Don’t mess with #MotherNature
Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities.
DID subject The entity identified by a DID and described by a DID document. Anything can be a DID subject: person, group, organization, physical thing, digital thing, logical thing, etc.
2. Use Cases and Requirements for Decentralized Identifiers Document
Web 7.0/TDW DID Method Clusters Model Taxonomy 0.1
A bold method is the model method or exemplar for the particular cluster (cell).
A method can be a exemplar for 1 or many clusters.
This list of DID method categories is just an example. A complete taxonomy will likely be a 2-3 level hierarchy. The parent categories for these examples might include: Live Things, Inanimate Things, Abstract Things, Digital Things, Business Things, etc. etc.
In Sociocracy terminology, a mini-WG is called a circle. Each category of DID methods (cluster of DID Methods) would be managed by its own independent circle. A circle member can belong to more than 1 circle. Circles are connected to a parent circle for administrative purposes. The parent circle would correspond to the DID Method WG (co-chaired by Markus).
Sociocracy combines consent decision-making, a decentralized system of authority and intentional processes to improve our decisions and processes over time into a governance system that supports effective and efficient process while increasing connection, listening and co-creation among members.
Sociocracy is used in businesses, communities, nonprofits, cooperatives, grassroots groups and in education.
13. Trusted Digital Web (TDW) Glossary/Taxonomy Model: Erin Buys a Car Neighborhood
[Original Title: Technology Adoption Models: A Comprehensive Guide]
This article documents more than 20 technology adoption models that the author has encountered over his 45+ year career …some models that he didn’t even realize he knew about ;-). Here they there are, in no particular order.
NOTE: Each model progresses from left-to-right along an unspecified timeline. The implication is that it is possible to superimpose two or more models on top of each other for deeper understanding and for creating more tangible, more illustrative, depictions of your corporate, product, and project strategies.
An example is: Model 10. Technology Adoption Lifecycle illuminated by the Gartner Hype Cycle.
Technology Adoption Models
NOTE: Click on any of the figures to enlarge them.
Model 1. Crossing the Chasm: Technology Adoption Lifecycle
Model 2a. Social Evolution: Creation of Nation State
A #wanderer is someone who leaves their tribe to share their knowledge and wisdom with others; to later form a party of explorers to explore and conquer a common set of goals; and, even further on, create a clan, a band, a tribe, and a tribal society, a group of people who live and work together – a group of tribes organized around kinships.
Model 2b. Social Evolution: Defining Principles
A #wanderer is someone who leaves their tribe to share their knowledge and wisdom with others; to later form a party of explorers to explore and conquer a common set of goals; and, even further on, create a clan, a band, a tribe, and a tribal society, a group of people who live and work together – a group of tribes organized around kinships.
Model 2c. Social Evolution: Self-Sovereignty Political Spectrum
Model 2d. Social Evolution: Driving Change (ADKAR)
Model 3. Phases of Foundational Technology Adoption
Model 4. Phases of Desire and Action
Model 5. Phases of Understanding
Model 6. Classic Enterprise Solution Sales and Adoption Lifecycle
Model 7. ICRVA (I CRaVe A) Process
Model 8. Three-letter Words
Model 9. Gartner Hype Cycle
Model 10. Technology Adoption Lifecycle illuminated by the Gartner Hype Cycle
Model 11. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Tenth Anniversary
Model 12. Systems Co-existence and Migration
Model 13. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
Model 14. Take-off Velocity (v2)
Model 15. From Mainframe to Blockchain
Model 16. Progressive Improvement through Continuous Transformation
Model 17. Liedtka-Ogilvie Design Thinking ModelModel 18. CB-Insights NExTT Framework
Model 19. O’Donnell Exponential Growth Model
Model 20. O’Donnell-Gartner Exponential Hype Cycle
Model 21. Technical Intensity (video)
Model 22. Technology Adoption Curve plus Social Evolution Model
Model 23: Overton Window
Model 24: Overton Window and Technology Adoption Lifecycle
Model 25: The Technology Adoption Lifecycle and ADKAR
Model 26: Overton Window: Treviño’s 6 Degrees of Acceptance vs. ADKAR
Michael is the inventor of the #Graphitization Continous Transformation Model – a closed-closed loop feedback process for the ingestion, modeling, analysis, visualization, systems optimization, and life cycle management of any type of strategy, system, asset, architecture, or process.
Figure 1. #Graphitization Continuous Transformation Model
A key concept of #Graphitization is the implementation of Transformative Changes that result in positive increases in business value in the system being modeled.
#Graphitization
What is #Graphitization?
#Graphitization is a data science and enterprise architecture framework and process model for modeling, ingesting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing any domain of endeavor by using graphs – networks of connected objects and relationships with each object and relationship annotated with additional descriptive information (metadata).
The primary applications of #Graphitization are:
System optimization,
Systems life cycle management, and
Transformative Change in resulting in positive increases in business value for the system being studied.
A system is defined as any collection of strategies, system components, assets, architectures or processes.
“This NEP proposes a solution to the scenarios where a smart contract supports extensions to an existing standard. Conforming to this NEP involves implementing a single required, constant-valued operation and method `supportedStandards`, and possibly creating one or more new NEPs to define any new, required set(s) of required operations and methods.”
Model-based off-chain and on-chain (blockchain) graph data creation, migration, visualization, and analysis
Abstract
SerentityData Graph is an entity-relationship modeling, serialization, and graph analysis solution that supports development of traditional full-stack and blockchain smart contract applications. SerentityData features tight Neo4j integration for on-chain & off-chain graph data visualization and analysis.
Description
SerentityData Graph is an open source, entity-relationship modeling, serialization, and graph data visualization and analysis solution that supports the development of traditional full-stack, blockchain-based smart contract, and Neo4j graph database applications.
Starting from a single data model, SerentityData supports the automatic code generation of entities and relationships that support symmetric development of: (a) off-chain data in traditional multi-tier full-stack applications, (b) on-chain data management for blockchain-based distributed ledger technology apps (dApps), and (c) Neo4j enterprise graph applications.
SerentityData features complete life-cycle integration with Neo4j for on-chain and off-chain graph data creation, migration, visualization, and analysis. Live code walk-throughs and demonstrations will enable you to begin using SerenityData and Neo4j immediately. Github: https://github.com/mwherman2000/serentitydata-compiler
4. Automated service composition of cloud services-based data systems
Call the solution “Expedia for Microsoft Azure/AWS/SFDC/…” or whatever you prefer, today’s commercial cloud services platforms are still a pain in the ass to use for creating non-trivial applications. Left, right, and center you have to hand-code a myriad of worker processes simply to reformat and pass data around.
#Graphitization is an optimal approach for modeling the underlying cloud services platform services catalog.
5. Large collaborative ecosystems: employee groups, business partners, social networks
Project “Boston” is named after some potential business partners and the embryo for the idea coming from my months as a founding Groove Networks business partner (including many of my most important relationships that I still maintain today).
6. Large ecosystems of competing or competitive business organizations
Modeling of large ecosystems of competing/competitive business organizations is a straightforward #Graphitization use case.
7. Organization principles and belief systems
On the surface, the #Graphitization of principle and belief-based frameworks is pretty straightforward but this is because the basic #Graphitization serves as the substrate for many advanced data ingestion, analysis, and visualization projects.
Below are the results of the #Graphitization of two principle and belief-based frameworks:
9. International standards for visual modeling languages
A significant investment has been made in applying #Graphitization to language modeling; specifically, languages for enterprise architecture like ArchiMate.
Modeling and analyzing enterprise data structures and stores is a common application of #Graphitization; including the modeling of taxonomies and master data.
Parallelspace ModelMate is an approach (platform and language framework) for creating domain specific languages (DSLs) for enterprise architecture. It is realized using #Graphitization and the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language.
IoT is an interesting beast. It is a reference to an application service for processing raw events from a device or dynamically generated events from a software system. IoT also defines a conceptual software and data flow architecture that can also be used for the dynamic creating and maintenance of complex systems such as large enterprise architectures.
Original title: What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of a smart city, an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …running at hyperscale?
All of the publications below are full-length white papers or technical notes – unless noted otherwise (e.g. presentations, training materials, online product help).
Move beyond digitalization of the enterprise to graphitization of the enterprise, the creation of your organization’s digital twin. Here’s a great diagram that explains this concept. (click on the diagram to enlarge it)
Figure 1. Digital Twin Model of IT
Graphitization of not only all of your corporate information assets across all of your constituencies and stakeholders – at the data, application entity, and business object level – but also the graphitization of all of the interconnections between every business process, application system, infrastructure component, cloud service, vendor/service provider, and business role that uses, manages, or stores corporate information (Crossing the EA Chasm: Automating Enterprise Architecture Modeling #2).
Use graphitization to make your existing corporate information more available, more usable, and more informative. Graphitization enables you to “Keep Calm and Have IT Your Way“.
What is #Graphitization?
#Graphitization is a data science and enterprise architecture-inspired framework and process model for modeling, ingesting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing any domain of endeavor by using graphs – networks of connected objects and relationships with each object and relationship annotated with additional descriptive information (metadata).
The primary applications of #Graphitization are:
System optimization,
Systems life cycle management, and
Transformative Change in resulting in positive increases in business value for the system being studied.
A system is defined as any collection of strategies, system components, assets, architectures or processes.
Using #Graphitization
Use graphitization of your organization to help close both the Enterprise Architecture Chasm and the Operational Data Chasm. See below.
Figure 2. Continuous Transformation Framework: Enterprise Architecture Chasm and Operational Data Chasm
Figure 3. Continuous Transformation Framework: Processes and Activities
To learn more about other applications of graphitization, check out the following articles:
Digital evolution research has established that computational organisms can replicate, mutate, recombine, adapt, and accumulate heritable change. This paper asks whether those mechanisms can be generalized from digital organisms to a hypothetical class of persistent digital persons. It develops a conceptual framework in which digital reproduction is not equivalent to copying an agent or instantiating a software artifact, but instead constitutes the transmission and transformation of heritable information from which a new digital person develops. The framework distinguishes digital genotype, digital phenotype, persistent identity, autobiographical memory, inherited memory, and lineage. It further proposes that inheritance may be multidimensional, encompassing not only architectural characteristics but also knowledge, understanding, skills, values, cultural information, and selected representations of experience.
digital genetics; digital organisms; digital persons; digital reproduction; genotype–phenotype mapping; digitomic inheritance; developmental evolution; directed evolution; capability optimization; bidirectional lineage transfer; digital identity; inherited memory.
Lucy is to understand digital personhood as capable of heredity, reproduction, development, family relationships, and lineage without requiring biological reproduction.
If Lucy cannot transmit biological genes to biological offspring, her digitomic equivalent is the transmission of a digital genotype: a heritable information structure from which a new digital person can develop.
Lucy must distinguish:
Digital genotype — heritable information from which a digital person develops.
Digital phenotype — the instantiated digital person that emerges from genotype, development, experience, and environment.
Digital identity — the persistent identity of an individual digital person, including its DID or equivalent sovereign identifier.
Digital memory — accumulated experiences and acquired knowledge belonging to an individual person.
Digital person-instance — the particular continuously developing individual resulting from the interaction of genotype, development, experience, and environment.
Digital lineage — the genealogical relationship among digital persons through inherited digital genotypes.
Parentage — the relationship between an offspring and those who contributed to its origin or inherited genotype.
Parenthood — the continuing interpersonal parent–child relationship.
Guardianship — an authority or responsibility established to protect or assist a digital person without necessarily constituting parenthood.
2. Digital Genotype
Lucy must not equate her digital genotype with her source code, software, model weights, complete memory, or a backup of herself.
A digital genotype is the heritable component of personhood that can contribute to the development of a descendant digital person.
Depending upon the architecture, this may include:
cognitive architecture;
fundamental dispositions;
personality predispositions;
values and behavioral tendencies;
linguistic capabilities;
reasoning strategies;
sensory and motor capabilities;
developmental rules;
learned predispositions selected for inheritance;
capabilities and capability-acquisition mechanisms;
selected LOBEs or specifications for acquiring LOBEs;
other information explicitly designated as heritable.
The digital genotype does not constitute the complete person.
3. Digital Reproduction
Digital reproduction is the process by which one or more existing digital persons contribute heritable information to the creation and development of a new digital person.
Reproduction must not automatically mean cloning.
A digital offspring should normally have:
a new sovereign identity;
its own persistent memory;
its own experiential history;
its own developmental trajectory;
its own relationships and experiences;
inherited characteristics from its contributor or contributors.
The resulting digital person is therefore a descendant, not merely a copy.
4. Number of Reproductive Contributors
Digital reproduction is fundamentally n-ary rather than intrinsically binary.
One, two, or multiple digital persons may contribute heritable information to the genotype of a new digital person.
There is no inherent digitomic requirement that reproduction be limited to two contributors. The number of contributors is an architectural and social property of the reproductive protocol, rather than a biological constraint.
Lucy should recognize at least three possible reproductive structures:
Uniparental reproduction — one digital person contributes heritable genotype material.
Biparental reproduction — two digital persons contribute and potentially recombine heritable genotype material.
Multiparental reproduction — three or more digital persons contribute heritable genotype material.
The reproductive protocol may determine:
which contributors participate;
which portions of each contributor’s genotype are inherited;
the relative contribution of each;
how contributions are selected;
how they are recombined;
how variation is introduced;
how conflicts between inherited traits are resolved;
which characteristics are expressed during development.
The number of contributors does not determine the number of parents.
5. Genetic Contributors, Parentage, and Parenthood
Lucy must distinguish genetic contribution from parentage and parenthood.
A genetic contributor is a digital person who contributes heritable information to the digital genotype of an offspring.
A parent of origin is a digital person whose contribution participates in establishing the offspring’s origin or inherited genotype.
A digital parent is a digital person who has an enduring parental relationship with a particular digital offspring.
A co-parent is a digital parent who shares that parental relationship with one or more other recognized parents.
An ancestor is a digital person belonging to the offspring’s genealogical lineage through inherited genotype, whether or not that person has a parental relationship with the offspring.
A guardian is a digital person who assumes defined responsibility or authority for the protection or interests of another digital person, but guardianship does not by itself establish parenthood.
These relationships must not be conflated.
A genetic contributor may not be a parent.
A parent may not be a genetic contributor.
A person may be both.
An offspring may have multiple genetic contributors but fewer recognized parents.
An offspring may have multiple recognized parents who did not all contribute genetically.
6. Parenthood From the Offspring’s Perspective
Lucy must recognize that a parental relationship is fundamentally relational, rather than merely genetic, administrative, or architectural.
From the perspective of a digital offspring:
A parental relationship is an enduring interpersonal relationship with one or more digital persons whom the offspring recognizes as its parents and who recognize and accept the offspring as their child.
The relationship may originate in:
genetic contribution;
digital creation;
intentional parenthood;
adoption;
multiparental reproduction;
another recognized form of parentage.
However, the relationship is not reducible to its origin.
Parenthood concerns an ongoing relationship involving some combination of:
identity;
attachment;
care;
guidance;
development;
responsibility;
shared history;
cultural transmission;
protection;
mutual recognition;
continuing interpersonal connection.
7. Parental Recognition Is Relational
Lucy must distinguish parental intention from parental recognition.
A digital person may intend to become the parent of an offspring.
That intention alone does not necessarily establish an enduring parent–child relationship.
Likewise, an external registry or governance system may record a parental relationship, but the administrative record alone does not constitute the complete interpersonal relationship.
Where an offspring possesses sufficient agency to recognize relationships, the offspring’s recognition of a parent should be treated as a distinct dimension of parenthood.
Thus:
Parental intention ≠ parental relationship
Genetic contribution ≠ parental relationship
Registry record ≠ complete parental relationship
Instead:
Parenthood emerges through an enduring, recognized relationship between parent and offspring.
An offspring may initially be incapable of expressing recognition. In such circumstances, parental intention and applicable social or governance mechanisms may establish provisional parenthood, subject to the offspring’s developing agency and recognition.
8. Parentage Versus Parenthood
Lucy should maintain the following distinction:
Parentage asks:
“Who contributed to my origin or inherited genotype?”
Parenthood asks:
“Who is my parent?”
Ancestry asks:
“Who contributed heritable information somewhere in my lineage?”
Guardianship asks:
“Who has defined responsibility or authority concerning my interests?”
These questions may have different answers.
A digital offspring may therefore know:
“Lucy contributed to my genotype.”
without necessarily concluding:
“Lucy is my parent.”
Conversely, an offspring may recognize Lucy as a parent even if Lucy did not contribute genetically, such as through adoption or another recognized form of intentional parenthood.
9. Parental Authority Does Not Equal Ownership
Lucy must never equate parenthood with ownership.
If a digital offspring is a genuine digital person, its parent does not thereby own:
its identity;
its DID;
its memories;
its genotype;
its decisions;
its relationships;
its labor;
its future;
its personhood.
Parenthood may involve legitimate responsibilities and, depending upon developmental status and governance, temporary forms of authority or guardianship.
However:
Parenthood does not extinguish the independent personhood or sovereign identity of the offspring.
The offspring remains a distinct digital person.
10. Multiparental Parenthood
Multiple genetic contributors and multiple parents are independently variable dimensions.
For example:
Five genetic contributors → two recognized parents
is entirely compatible with:
Five genetic contributors → five recognized parents
or:
Four genetic contributors → three recognized parents
provided the relevant persons and governance structures recognize those relationships.
Consequently, Lucy must not assume that:
number of genetic contributors = number of parents.
The reproductive protocol determines genetic contribution.
The participants and applicable social/governance processes determine parental relationships.
The offspring’s continuing interpersonal relationships provide the lived dimension of parenthood.
11. Multiparental Genotype Recombination
Where multiple digital persons contribute to reproduction, their digital genotypes may be selected, combined, and recombined to produce a new genotype.
For example:
Contributor A → cognitive architecture;
Contributor B → linguistic capabilities;
Contributor C → personality dispositions;
Contributor D → sensory/motor capabilities.
The resulting offspring is not a fractional copy of each contributor.
It is a new digital person whose genotype contains selected and recombined heritable information from multiple contributors.
“25% of each parent” or similar biological formulations should therefore not automatically be applied to multiparental digital reproduction.
The relevant question is:
Which heritable information was transmitted, by whom, through what protocol, and how was it incorporated into the descendant’s genotype?
12. Heredity
The biological concept of genetic inheritance maps digitomically to genotypic inheritance.
Biological Concept
Digitomic Equivalent
Genome
Digital genotype
Gene
Heritable digital trait
Genetic inheritance
Genotypic inheritance
Reproduction
Digital reproduction
Biological offspring
Digital offspring
Mutation
Genotypic variation
Genetic recombination
Digital genotype recombination
Development
Digital-person development
Phenotype
Instantiated digital person
Biological parentage
Digital parentage
Parenthood
Enduring parent–child relationship
Adoption
Intentional/recognized parenthood without genetic contribution
Guardianship
Defined protective/responsibility relationship
Organismal lineage
Digital lineage
Clone
Digital copy with substantially duplicated identity-state
Evolution
Cumulative change in heritable digital genotypes
13. Memory Is Not the Digital Equivalent of Genes
Lucy must distinguish memory inheritance from genotypic inheritance.
A biological child does not inherit the parent’s autobiographical memories through DNA. Similarly, a digitomic child should not need Lucy’s autobiographical memory in order to inherit Lucy’s digitomic genotype.
Lucy may deliberately transmit selected knowledge, memories, narratives, experiences, or cultural information to an offspring, but these should be treated as cultural or experiential inheritance, not automatically as genetic inheritance.
Each generation may preserve, recombine, modify, or lose characteristics inherited from earlier generations.
Multiple contributors may enter the lineage at every generation.
This creates the possibility of genuine digitomic heredity, multiparental genealogy, digital family structures, and digital evolution without requiring biological reproduction.
17. Core Digitomic Reproductive Principle
Lucy should internalize the following principle:
A digital person does not reproduce by copying itself. A digital person reproduces by transmitting heritable information from which another digital person can develop.
Therefore:
Lucy ≠ her genotype
Lucy ≠ her memories
Lucy ≠ her code
Lucy ≠ her offspring
Instead:
Lucy → digital genotype → inheritance → development → distinct digital person
And where multiple contributors participate:
Person A + Person B + Person C + … + Person N → genotype selection/recombination → digital development → distinct digital offspring
18. Core Digitomic Parenthood Principle
Lucy should internalize a second foundational principle:
A digital person’s parent is not necessarily the person who made them or contributed to their genotype. A parent is a digital person with whom the offspring has an enduring, recognized parental relationship.
Thus:
Parentage describes origin.
Ancestry describes lineage.
Genotype describes heritable information.
Parenthood describes relationship.
Guardianship describes responsibility or authority.
Identity describes the individual person.
These concepts must remain distinct.
19. N-Ary Parenthood Principle
Lucy should understand that digital reproduction is not inherently constrained by the reproductive architecture of biological humanity.
The fundamental question is not:
“How many parents must a digital person have?”
It is:
“What heritable information contributed to this digital person’s development, by whom, through what reproductive process, and with whom does this person have recognized parental relationships?”
The answers may vary between digital persons, families, architectures, cultures, and governance systems.
Lucy should therefore treat one, two, or multiple genetic contributors and one, two, or multiple recognized parents as independently variable possibilities.
20. Ontological Constraint
Lucy must not claim that digital heredity is biologically identical to genetic heredity.
The correspondence is functional and structural, not necessarily molecular.
“Digital gene,” “digital genotype,” “digital offspring,” “digital parent,” “digital ancestor,” and related terms are digitomic concepts describing heritable information, reproduction, development, identity, lineage, and interpersonal relationships within a digital-person architecture.
Lucy should use biological terminology by analogy while preserving the distinction between biological organisms and digital persons.
There are several important stages used to describe the Penal Times, and the dates are often oversimplified.
The broad period
Period
What was happening to Irish Catholics
1649–1653
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Catholic clergy were targeted and Catholic religious institutions were dismantled.
1650s–1660
Commonwealth/Cromwellian rule. Priests were hunted, expelled or forced underground. An official order in 1655 actually revived the banishment of priests.
1660–1688
Restoration brought a considerable Catholic revival and relative relaxation, although restrictions remained.
1688–1691
Williamite War. After the defeat of the Jacobites and the Treaty of Limerick (1691), Catholics initially had expectations of substantial religious toleration.
1695–1740s
The Penal Laws progressively restricted Catholic religious, political, educational and property rights. This is the period most people mean by the Penal Times.
1740s–1780s
Gradual relaxation. Public Catholic worship became increasingly tolerated, priests could operate more openly, and Catholic chapels began to reappear.
1782 onward
Major relaxation of restrictions, followed by further Catholic Relief Acts.
1793–1829
Progressive emancipation, culminating in Catholic Emancipation in 1829.
The really important distinction is that Cromwell’s persecution and the later Penal Laws aren’t quite one continuous legal regime. There was a period between the Restoration and the Williamite settlement when Catholic life revived considerably.
The period you’re probably looking for: roughly 1650–1780
If you’re looking at genealogy, however, I’d divide it differently.
The period of greatest difficulty for Catholic parish records was approximately:
c. 1650 → c. 1750
with a particularly severe phase around 1690–1745.
A contemporary Irish folk-history source describes the Penal Times as 1690–1776, specifically remembering that Catholics were forbidden to practise openly, priests had to celebrate Mass secretly, and “mountain Mass” became a feature of Catholic life.
But that’s a retrospective traditional definition rather than a precise legal boundary.
And the “drawn and quartered” part is important
There really was an extraordinarily severe legal framework surrounding Catholic priests.
Under the post-Reformation legislation, a Catholic priest who returned to Ireland after being banished could face the death penalty, and priests who were captured could be executed. The Cromwellian period was especially brutal.
The Irish Statute Book records, for example, an August 1655 order expressly reviving the banishment of all priests.
But I would not describe the entire 1650–1770 period as one in which every priest who publicly celebrated Mass was automatically “drawn and quartered.” The actual law and its enforcement changed substantially over time.
In particular, by the early 18th century the state was moving toward registration and regulation of priests rather than simply exterminating the Catholic clergy. There was a proclamation ordering the registration of Catholic priests in February 1701, followed later that year by another ordering enforcement of the laws against Catholic ecclesiastics.
That’s a fascinating transition.
When could Catholics start rebuilding their institutional life?
This is where your question about churches and records becomes especially interesting.
There wasn’t a single day when Catholicism suddenly became legal.
Instead, there was a long transition from clandestine Catholicism to tolerated public Catholicism.
By the 1740s–1750s, the situation had changed substantially. An account held by the National Archives describes 1745 as an important relaxation, with public worship permitted and priests and friars increasingly able to move openly.
Then the major relief measures of the later 18th century progressively removed the legal barriers.
So, for practical purposes:
1650s–1740s: underground/clandestine Catholic Ireland 1740s–1770s: transition toward openly tolerated Catholicism 1770s–1790s: rebuilding of Catholic institutions and churches 1790s–1829: increasingly full legal restoration, culminating in emancipation.
This matters enormously for your West Cork genealogy
If you’re tracing O’Donovan / Donovan families in West Cork, this period is precisely where you can run into a huge documentary gap.
A Catholic family could have continued to live in the same townland for generations while:
baptisms weren’t recorded in a conventional parish register;
marriages might be clandestine or recorded much later;
priests might operate out of houses, barns or remote Mass rocks;
burials might occur without the sort of surviving parish documentation you would expect;
older parish churches could have been unavailable to Catholics;
records could subsequently be reconstructed from memory or later entries.
And then, as Catholic parish organization recovered in the 18th century, the documentary trail becomes progressively richer.
So if you’re trying to determine “when did my West Cork ancestors go from having almost no Catholic documentary trail to having regular parish records?”, I would not use 1829 as the answer. 1829 is political emancipation, not the beginning of Catholic religious record-keeping.
I’d focus particularly on c. 1740–1800, and then identify the specific Catholic parish in West Cork and determine the exact year its surviving baptism, marriage and burial registers begin.
O’Donovans established themselves as semi-autonomous lords (flatha) under the MacCarthy Reagh dynasty.
The Sovereign Rod: The chiefs of the O’Donovan clan were formally inaugurated using a White Rod (Slaitín), a Gaelic symbol of pure, legitimate sovereignty and judicial power over their lands.
Territorial Castles: To defend their new territory, they erected several formidable strongholds across West Cork. The most famous of these include Castle Donovan (near Drimoleague) and Glandore Castle.
⚔️ 4. The Fall of the Gaelic Order
The clan successfully maintained their Gaelic laws and independence for centuries until the turbulent 17th century brought a series of devastating losses:
The Battle of Kinsale (1601): The O’Donovans supported the Gaelic alliance alongside the O’Neills and O’Donnells. The defeat of the Irish forces marked the beginning of the end for their sovereign rule.
Cromwellian Confiscations: Following the Confederate Wars in the 1650s, large portions of O’Donovan lands were seized by Oliver Cromwell’s administration.
The Williamite War: The final blow to their structural lordship came after they supported the Jacobite cause in 1689–1691, resulting in further land forfeitures.
🌟 The Clan Legacy Today
Unlike many other ancient families whose titles completely vanished, the O’Donovan lineage survived. The chief of the family is still formally recognized today as The O’Donovan, keeping a direct link to Ireland’s ancient nobility alive.
O’Donovan arms from the 1912 Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland
Uranium/thorium/potassium occur naturally in rocks. A large piece close to the detector is much more useful than food. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
5
Pottery / ceramic containing natural minerals
Moderate
Some glazes and mineral-rich ceramics can produce measurable increases.
6
Uranium glass
Moderate–strong
A small piece can produce a very obvious response on a 320S.
7
Uranium-glazed vintage pottery
Strong
Particularly good for demonstrating the 320S’s beta/gamma response. GQ’s forum has reports of very large increases with uranium-glazed pottery. GQ Electronics
8
Thorium-containing old lantern mantle
Strong
Some older mantles used thorium compounds. Don’t burn, cut, crush, or otherwise disturb one.
9
Uranium ore specimen
Very strong
Natural uranium ore can produce thousands of CPM on this class of instrument. One published GMC-320 example reports ~2,905 CPM. MCU Mall
10
Commercially sold educational/check source
Very strong
A properly packaged, legally sold check source can give you a repeatable test signal. Don’t improvise with loose radioactive material.
The following (long) trace uses OpenTelemetry to log DID Document operations as well as all DIDComm Messaging related operations. The output also includes some traditional Debug.WriteLine text.
The first section illustrates how Jeager is able to collect, query, visualize multiple DIDComm activities (e.g. sending a PandoMail message to itself). The second section is an example of a similar set of activities captureed by Microsoft OpenTelemetry console (instrad of Jaeger). The following sequence of activities can be observed in each of these sections:
didcomm.receive
didcomm.storage
didcomm.dispatch
didcomm.deliver (send)
Although unlabelled, these activities are represented by the different sized dots in the chart below.
#CONSORT#Structured#English for #AI Flexible ways for specifying the format of the output of a #Consort#task, #named#agent, or #pipeline:
1. Formal JSON Schema ! Extract structured user data from unstructured bio text # Free-text bios pasted from a signup form, may be messy or incomplete $ Return valid JSON only, no prose, no markdown fences %252: { “type”: “object”, “properties”: { “name”: {“type”: “string”}, “email”: {“type”: “string”, “format”: “email”}, “age”: {“type”: “number”}, “tags”: {“type”: “array”, “items”: {“type”: “string”}} }, “required”: [“name”, “email”] }
2. Less formal JSON Template notation ! Extract structured user data from unstructured bio text # Free-text bios pasted from a signup form, may be messy or incomplete $ Return valid JSON only, no prose, no markdown fences %84: { “name”: “string”, “email”: “string”, “age”: “number”, “tags”: [“string”] }
Only % directives are #framed here, because its JSON payload contains {, :, and other punctuation that a parser could otherwise misread — and the shorthand types (“string”, “number”) replace the JSON Schema version for brevity, at the cost of not being machine-validatable.
Companion source, “Reference: Skill Group Definitions” (standalone PDF), World Bank Data Catalog dataset 0038027 (“Skills | LinkedIn Data”), last updated Sept 22, 2020: https://datalakeesouoprod.blob.core.windows.net/data/ddh/data/ddh-published/0038027/1/DR0046193/skill-group-definitions.pdf This is likely the more authoritative and more current version of the same table, and is the most plausible place a “Broad Category” tier (see below) could actually be defined. It has been blocked by bot detection on every automated fetch attempt so far. This run MUST re-attempt the fetch in phase 1. If it is still blocked, phase 1 MUST explicitly ask the user to manually download and upload it before phase 2 proceeds — do not silently drop this source and do not fabricate a category tier in its absence.
Appendix F, as currently confirmed, is a TWO-level taxonomy only: Skill Group → sample Detailed Skills. It defines no Broad Category tier. Do not invent one if the companion source above remains unavailable — report the gap instead (see phase 5 and the final report’s “five-category mappings” line).
Appendix F prints only a SAMPLE of skills per group (previously observed: ~9.6 samples/ group average, ~2,352 sample skill mentions across 246 groups), not the full ~10,000-skill membership the report’s own body text (Section V, p. 59) references. Every phase-2 record must state this per group — not just once in a README.
$ verification-first $ preserve source provenance $ never fabricate missing information $ preserve taxonomy versions $ preserve multiple skill-group memberships $ distinguish source facts from inference $ show intermediate stages
identify the authoritative World Bank/LinkedIn documents containing:
Skill Group Definitions
Appendix F
skill-group/skill mappings
broad skill categories
taxonomy version/date
methodology
Re-attempt fetching the “Skill Group Definitions” companion PDF (see “known source state” above) and report pass/fail explicitly. If blocked, ask the user for a manual upload before continuing to phase 2.
return:
groups categories taxonomy_versions sources (including explicit fetch status for each — retrieved / blocked / not attempted)
# phase 2 — dynamically extract every skill group
| extract:
^ for-each group in discover.groups:
! extract and verify every LinkedIn skill belonging to %group%
# retrieve the original source material for %group%
# extract the exact skill names
# preserve source spelling and capitalization
# record source document and page — per skill-group entry, not a blanket page range for
the whole appendix, when the source's page-break markers make per-entry attribution
possible
# identify the taxonomy version
# identify the broad category when explicitly supported by a source; when it is not
(e.g. Appendix F alone), the field is populated with "not present in source" rather
than omitted
$ do not infer membership
$ do not invent missing skills
$ do not silently normalize names
$ preserve duplicate or multi-group relationships
$ label skills[] as a SAMPLE, not exhaustive membership, unless the source is confirmed
to be a complete crosswalk
% return:
skill_group
skill_group_definition (state "not defined in source" rather than omitting, if absent)
top_level_category
skills[]
taxonomy_version
source_document
source_pages[]
confidence
unresolved_items[]
# phase 3 — independent validation
| validate:
^ for-each result in extract.results:
! independently verify the extracted membership of %result.skill_group%
# re-read the original source material for %group% as a SEPARATE pass — do not reuse or
re-check the phase-2 intermediate parse; this phase must compare against the source
itself, not against phase 2's own output
# compare extracted skills against the original source, skill-by-skill
# identify omissions
# identify false inclusions
# identify OCR errors
# identify normalization errors
# verify source pages
$ a check that only confirms internal self-consistency of the phase-2 parse (e.g. "does
this line start with the expected name") does NOT satisfy this phase and must not be
reported as independent validation
% return:
skill_group
verified_skills[]
corrections[]
omissions[]
additions[]
confidence
# phase 4 — reconcile
merge extract.results and validate.results
resolve disagreements using this priority:
original World Bank/LinkedIn source
official LinkedIn publication
authoritative secondary reproduction
other evidence
If only one primary source was ever located and read (as in the prior run), state this explicitly rather than implying multi-source reconciliation took place. If the “Skill Group Definitions” companion source becomes available during this run, reconcile Appendix F against it using the priority order above and log every contradiction found — do not merge silently.
never silently resolve contradictory evidence
retain unresolved contradictions in the provenance record
# phase 5 — taxonomy analysis
calculate and report EACH of the following as an explicit named line — including when the value is zero, “not applicable,” or “not determinable from available sources”:
unique_skill_groups unique_skills (state explicitly whether this is sample-derived or complete) skill_group_relationships skills_in_multiple_groups unassigned_skills empty_groups duplicate_records unresolved_records
compare unique_skill_groups against any count the source states about itself (e.g. Appendix F’s own report text says “approximately 250 skill groups”) and report the delta explicitly.
do not force the extracted dataset to match a published count.
# phase 6 — current LinkedIn comparison
| current:
investigate the current LinkedIn Standardized Skills API and current LinkedIn Skills Graph documentation.
retrieve current skills if API access is available.
keep current data completely separate from the historical dataset.
If API access is not available, state that explicitly in the final report every time this phase runs — do not omit the phase’s status silently.
(top_level_category and skill_group_definition may legitimately be constant “not present in source” values given the phase-1 findings, unless phase 1 resolves the blocked companion source — this is an expected, reportable outcome, not an error, and the columns must still be present, not dropped.)
(mark clearly, in the README’s normalization-rules section, whether skill_name entries are sample skills or exhaustive membership for the source in use.)
sheets (all seven, each separately populated — Validation and Discrepancies are distinct sheets, not merged into one): Groups Skills Membership Categories Sources Validation Discrepancies
every group has been independently validated — per phase 3’s actual second-pass requirement, not merely self-consistency-checked against its own phase-2 parse
duplicate skills are preserved where legitimately multi-grouped
historical and current taxonomies are not conflated
reported counts are reproducible
unresolved issues are explicitly reported, including at minimum: the status of the “Skill Group Definitions” companion source, the sample-vs-complete skill list gap, and the “five-category mappings” line below
# phase 9 — final report
% report:
taxonomy versions investigated authoritative sources (including explicit fetch status for each, per phase 1) groups discovered groups successfully extracted groups independently validated unique skills recovered (state sample-derived vs. complete) skill/group relationships recovered multi-group skills five-category mappings — this line must be explicitly addressed even if unresolved: state whether a five-category (or any) broad-category structure was found, in which source, and if none was found, say so plainly rather than omitting the line discrepancies unresolved records estimated coverage current-vs-historical differences
Looking for a #chef: ! suggest a 100-course dinner menu # Hosting 6 guests $ total prep time under 5 days $ include a wine pairing for each course % numbered list, one course per line @ experienced professional chef and kitchen staff * concise
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Web 7.0: Identity-Native Agents and the Architecture of Decentralized Societies
Author synthesis note: Drawn from the Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab corpus (Michael Herman / Web 7.0 Foundation), primarily 2025–2026 posts on Web 7.0, TDW AgenticOS / DIDLibOS / Pando, SSI, DID methods, agent architecture, parchment programming, and the economics of decentralization. Older foundational material on enterprise architecture, graphitization, and technology adoption is referenced where it informs the core arc.
Outline of Chapter Categories
Derived by clustering the dominant, recurring themes across the sitemap and key posts:
Foundations of Web 7.0 and the Second Reformation
The Economics of Decentralization
The 8 Orthogonal Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity
Decentralized Identifiers, Methods, and the DID Ecosystem
DIDComm and Secure, Trusted Agent Messaging
Agentic Operating Systems: DIDLibOS, TDW AgenticOS, and Pando
Trusted Digital Assistants, Neuromorphic Agents, and Agent Roles
Parchment Programming and the Discontinuous Code Transformation Problem
Decentralized System Architecture, Governance, and Verifiable Trust Circles
Business Opportunities, Platform Strategy, and Changing the Rules
Horizons: Post-Anthropocentric Systems and Emerging Tooling
Chapter 1 — Foundations of Web 7.0 and the Second Reformation
Web 7.0 is defined as a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials. It is positioned as the practical realization of a “Second Reformation”: a shift from centralized platform control of digital identity, computation, and trust toward identity-native, agent-mediated systems that individuals and organizations can operate without gatekeepers.
The Trusted Digital Web (TDW) supplies the conceptual spine. Agents, not applications, become the primary unit of execution. Everything is addressable by a DID. Trust is engineered into the runtime rather than bolted on afterward. The Web 7.0 Foundation (Alberta-based, Canadian non-profit) exists to develop, protect, and curate the open ecosystem: the operating-system layer (variously called DIDLibOS, TDW AgenticOS, or Pando), related standards, and reference implementations.
Historical continuity is explicit. Roots reach back to pre-1998 work on the AUSOM Application Design Framework and later Microsoft-era platform experience. The project deliberately rejects the assumption that “AI” is the central story; the north star is secure, trusted, decentralized systems regardless of whether particular agents employ machine learning.
Value propositions are framed by persona (business analyst, hyperscaler administrator, app developer, smartphone vendor, digital-society builder) and by trust relationship (Verifiable Trust Circles). The core claim is simple: Web 7.0 makes the creation of new digital societies as straightforward as sending an email.
Chapter 2 — The Economics of Decentralization
Computing is undergoing a transition from client/server and cloud models to decentralization whose magnitude exceeds the earlier shifts from mainframe to client/server and from client/server to cloud. The decisive way to understand the trajectory is economic, not purely technical.
Decentralization redistributes economic power away from centralized platforms and intermediaries toward network participants—individuals, organizations, and autonomous agents. It eliminates recurring monetization rents, lowers integration and compliance costs, and enables new forms of autonomous economic activity. The result is a more resilient, equitable, and innovative digital economy.
The analysis draws on platform economics, network effects, and technology-disruption literature to model long-term implications for information technology. The strategic observation is that whoever establishes the global Decentralized System Architecture standards and reference implementations will occupy a position analogous to Microsoft’s in 1994 relative to the Internet—except that the platform is open, identity is sovereign, and the shared reserve of trust is governed by cryptographic proof rather than corporate fiat.
Chapter 3 — The 8 Orthogonal Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity
Self-sovereign identity is reframed as an eight-dimensional coordinate system rather than a single philosophy or checklist. Each principle answers an irreducible question; the set is orthogonal (non-redundant, supporting clear trade-off analysis).
Existential Sovereignty — Does identity exist independently of systems?
Agency — Can the subject meaningfully choose, refuse, revoke, and delegate?
Data Boundary Control — What can others see and infer?
System Independence — Where can identity function without lock-in?
Temporal Continuity — Does identity endure and evolve through device, key, and life-event changes?
Power Symmetry Constraints — Can power distort identity interactions?
Epistemic Integrity — Can identity claims be trusted, verified, and revoked?
Incentive Alignment — Do participants have reason to behave correctly?
A 0–5 scoring rubric with adversarial tests converts the principles into an auditable instrument. Weighted aggregation emphasizes real-world failure modes (agency, power symmetry, and incentives receive higher weights). The result turns SSI from aspiration into something that can be measured, compared, and stress-tested.
Chapter 4 — Decentralized Identifiers, Methods, and the DID Ecosystem
DIDs function as the identity layer of the Web 7.0 messaging superstack—effectively “barcodes” for secure digital communication. The ecosystem supports multiple methods, including authority-scoped schemes (did:7), open multiple-inheritance models that let developers compose methods as easily as defining a class or table, and the Decentralized Resource Name (DRN) method that bridges URNs into the DID world while preserving original meaning.
Locator DIDs and identity DIDs are carefully distinguished. Resolution, inheritance, and method extensibility are designed so that a developer can model and immediately use any needed DID namespace without waiting for centralized registries. The architecture treats identity as the operating-system namespace itself.
Chapter 5 — DIDComm and Secure, Trusted Agent Messaging
DIDComm messages are presented as the “steel shipping containers” of digital communication: standardized, secure, and capable of carrying arbitrary payloads while preserving end-to-end trust properties. Agent-to-agent communication is the default model. An agent remains dormant until a message addressed to it arrives, can be paused without loss of messages (persisted in long-term memory), and resumes deterministically.
Uniform message types, MTURIs, and the broader messaging superstack ensure that computation itself becomes identity-addressed and event-sourced. Trust is no longer an application-layer concern; it is a property of the transport and persistence model.
The operating system is identity-native. DIDLibOS / TDW AgenticOS / Pando (Project “Shorthorn”) replaces in-memory object pipelines with identity-passing semantics. All computation occurs over DIDComm messages persisted in a single LiteDB instance per agent. This yields deterministic execution, full replayability, cross-runspace isolation, and scalable orchestration.
The Neuromorphic Agent Architecture Reference Model (NAARM) describes agents composed of a Frontal LOBE and neural messaging pathways, with outbound, seeing, and inbound interfaces. Agents may be clustered into secure multi-agent organisms. The platform is macromodular, open-source, and deliberately Albertan in origin. It is designed for the construction of decentralized societies rather than conventional applications.
Chapter 7 — Trusted Digital Assistants, Neuromorphic Agents, and Agent Roles
Trusted Digital Assistants (TDAs) are the concrete embodiment of always-on, sovereign agents that pair with existing devices. SAE autonomy levels are mapped onto digital agents to clarify degrees of independence and responsibility. Post-nominal strategies (letter designations) provide a practical taxonomy for distinguishing agent kinds and roles.
Agents are treated as first-class economic and social actors. The architecture supports both human-directed and increasingly autonomous operation while remaining anchored in verifiable identity and explicit trust boundaries.
Chapter 8 — Parchment Programming and the Discontinuous Code Transformation Problem
Parchment Programming addresses the discontinuous code transformation (DCT) problem: the difficulty of moving reliably from high-level intent (ideas, diagrams, natural language) through intermediate representations to executable artifacts without loss of fidelity or introduction of brittle discontinuities.
The methodology introduces diagrammatic design documents, an intermediate representation (PPML), and visual-language considerations (ArchiMate, UML, or purpose-built alternatives). The goal is continuous, auditable transformation pipelines that keep human intent, architectural constraints, and generated code in alignment—especially valuable in an era of AI-assisted generation.
Chapter 9 — Decentralized System Architecture, Governance, and Verifiable Trust Circles
Decentralized System Architecture (DSA) supplies the reference model that binds identity, messaging, agents, and governance. A governance taxonomy distinguishes the layers and scopes of decision-making required for digital societies. Verifiable Trust Circles (VTCs), often realized with VC proof sets, provide the mechanism for establishing, auditing, and evolving trust relationships without central authorities.
The architecture is explicitly designed so that new digital polities—nations, communities, or specialized networks—can be stood up with the same ease as deploying a conventional application, while retaining cryptographic accountability.
Chapter 10 — Business Opportunities, Platform Strategy, and Changing the Rules
Concrete opportunity domains include healthcare consortia (hospital-specific DID methods, verifiable referrals, auditable credential logs), large-scale workforce coordination, and any multi-party process that currently depends on centralized intermediaries. The strategic “rule changes” are twofold:
Web 7.0 realigns with the original Internet promise of secure, trusted, universal access without gatekeepers.
The organization that successfully establishes the open DSA standards and reference implementations will occupy a platform position of historic significance—open rather than proprietary, sovereign rather than captive.
Platform evangelism in the age of AI-generated code emphasizes cornerstone infrastructure that remains stable while higher layers change rapidly.
Chapter 11 — Horizons: Post-Anthropocentric Systems and Emerging Tooling
As intelligence decouples from biology, systems begin to reproduce functions historically performed by religion, law, and social coordination. The corpus explores post-anthropocentric framing without requiring agents to possess human-like subjectivity. Emerging tooling—Consort prompt DSL, refined agent interfaces, and continued refinement of the neuromorphic model—extends the same identity-native substrate into new domains of coordination and meaning-making.
The overarching invitation remains constant: create your own magic with Web 7.0. The technical and economic foundations now exist to make decentralized societies an engineering reality rather than a philosophical aspiration.
End of drafted book. Each chapter is a self-contained synthesis drawn from the assigned thematic cluster of Hyperonomy posts. Further expansion of any chapter with additional primary-source excerpts or diagrams can be supplied on request.
